The SMT meet to review the UKCRF Network strategic themes. They provide advice and support to CRFs, identify new regional and national developments and assess their likely impact. The SMT is a forum for sharing new initiatives and disseminating emerging best practice to CRFs. The SMT advocate and promotes the UKCRF Network and is responsive to the needs of the Network’s key stakeholders (funders, researchers, patients and the public).

SMT Meeting at the UKCRF Network Annual Conference, 2018

Paul Brown

• UKCRF Network interim Director & Head of Research & Innovation at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (email)

Caroline Saunders

• UKCRF Network Deputy Director & Clinical Manager at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (email)

Jennifer Allison

• Theme Lead (Workforce Development) & Matron at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (email)

Joanna Gray

• Theme Lead (Achieving Operational Excellence) & Clinical Manager at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (email)

Bella Starling

• Theme Lead (PPI) & Director of Vocal and PPIE Lead at NIHR Manchester CRF and BRC at Manchester University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Stephen Barnett

• Theme Lead (Accelerating Clinical Trials) & Research and Development Associate Director at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust (email)

Kate Blackstone

• Deputy Theme Lead (Workforce Development) & CRF Operations & Business Manager at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust (email)

Karen French

• Deputy Theme Lead (Achieving Operational Excellence) & Operational Manager at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (email)

Caroline McMahon

• Deputy Theme Lead (PPIE) & PPIE Lead at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Steve McSwiggan

• SMT Scotland Representative & Deputy Director at the Edinburgh Clinical Research Facility (email)

Jayne Goodwin

• SMT Wales Representative & Head of Research Delivery for Health and Care Research Wales (email)

Jeremy Towns

• SMT Ireland Representative & Programme Manager for the Wellcome HRB CRF at St James’s Hospital in Dublin (email)

Professor Chris Newman

• SMT Directors Representative & Director at the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (email)

Dr Joanna Knee

• Head of Research Operations at the CRN National Coordinating Centre (CRNCC) / NIHR Clinical Research Network (CRN) (email)

Dr Kate Holmes

• Head of Collaborations at NIHR NOCRI (email)