What is the role of local enhanced services in building clinical research facilities in primary care?

Journal article

This paper explores how a recent service innovation – a scheme for Local Enhanced Services (LES) for Primary Care Clinical Research – can help to build research within primary care settings and improve access to clinical studies for local populations. We consider how this type of innovation fits with recent national health research policy and describe the development of one such scheme based in the East of England, reporting key findings from an evaluation of the scheme undertaken in 2008. Our intention is to highlight barriers and facilitators to progressing LES schemes and thereby feed into the strategic development of research.

Authors: Shaw, S; Johns, T; Hoile, O; Gunnell, C

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Journal: Primary Health Care Research and Development
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 03
• Pages: 274-274
• Publication date: 2009-07-01
• DOI: 10.1017/S1463423609990077
• EISSN: 1477-1128
• ISSN: 1463-4236