Research

The Research Office sits within Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust’s Quality directorate. It is the first point of contact for:

• Clinical Research Networks
• National Institute for Health Research
• Sponsors of research
• Researchers seeking to work in the trust
• Patient groups wanting more information on research
• Trust staff involved in research
• Regulatory and administrative work on clinical trials
• Local promotion of specific trials and research in general

 

Research Lead

Email Anne Lim

Clinical Research Nurse

Email Diane Hammond

Clinical Research Nurse

Email Janet Cotta

Clinical Research Nurse - Agile Workforce

Email Gemma Nash

 

Address

If you need to write to us, our postal address is:

Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust Research Office
Howard Court 
14 Tewin Road 
Welwyn Garden City 
AL7 1BW

Your information will also help us manage the NHS and protect the health of the public by being used to:

• Deliver you the most suitable care and treatment
• Contact you with appointment reminders (this may include text messages)
• Review the care we provide to ensure it is of the highest standard and quality, e.g. through audit or service improvement
• Investigate complaints, legal claims and incidents
• Ensure the hospital receives payment for the care you receive
• Prepare statistics on NHS performance
• Audit NHS accounts and services
• Undertake health research and development (with your consent – you may choose whether or not to be involved)
• Train and educate healthcare professionals
• Report events to the appropriate authorities where the law requires us to

With your consent, we may use your details to contact you with regards to patient satisfaction surveys relating to services you have used within our Trust. This is to improve the way we deliver healthcare to you and other patients.

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care to improve the health and wealth of the nation through research. Working in partnership with the NHS, universities, local government, other research funders, patients and the public - they fund, enable and deliver world-leading health and social care research that improves people's health and wellbeing.

The NIHR has 12 Regional Research Delivery Networks (RRDNs) that support health and social care research across the country. During 2023/2024 1,045,282 people in England took part in research supported by the NIHR.

At HCT we are part of the East of England Regional Research Delivery network which supports us with the delivery of research within HCT.

• Find out more about NIHR here.
• Find out more about East of England RRDN here.