So here’s something to make your crumpet and jam just a bit more palatable on Sunday afternoon…Thanks to NIR CRN.

This week Health Sector TV will be broadcasting a programme entitled ‘Clinical Research: Making Patients
and the NHS Better.’

The blurb says that this is ‘an important new documentary highlighting how the Clinical Research Network (as part of the National Institute for Health Research) provides the infrastructure that allows high-quality clinical research to take place in the NHS, so that patients can benefit from new and better treatments, and we can learn how to improve NHS healthcare for the future.’

You can view the programme via Health Sector TV on Sky Channel 212 and Freesat Channel 401 on Sunday 20 October at 5.30pm and then it is repeated on Monday 21 October (5.30pm) and Saturday 26 October (12pm).  But you can view it now here!

As ever, the patients steal the show and my thanks to interviewees: Carole Bennett and Katrina Randle.  Also interviewed are:

• Dr Jonathan Sheffield, CEO, NIHR Clinical Research Network
• Lydia Christopher, Director for Industry, NIHR Clinical Research Network
• James Calderwood, Research Nurse
• me!

I believe you will also be able to view the film online at Health Sector  The film is also be available for healthcare professionals to view online for 12 months at anytime via Health Sector TV.