RE: Big Pharma1 Jun 2024 22:47
Magnet
Most University linked NHS hospitals have research centres "attached to them" and some are even located within the NHS hospital building footprint. To this end, the public and even some staff believe that the centre is part of the NHS fabric. This is not always the case, most are completely "separate" from the NHS and are run by charities ..for example the Welcome Foundation , others are affiliated to Universities. The staff within these facilities are hired and paid from the said charity ...University etc. The "attached" hospital will , for the most part, always have Consultants that are both working in the NHS hospital but also working for the said Charity / University . The Consultants will then "feed" suitable patients into the research being carried out at the attached centre. This way everyone wins... Consultants get the prestige on their CVs for "working in research" and get named in papers etc ..the Hospital also bathes in the success of any research ..and the research centre gets a guaranteed supply of "guineapigs" .
so to answer your question there is very little true NHS research done in NHS hospitals. The vast majority is done by private companies / charities and Universities . It all depends on the contract signed between hospital management - feeding the supply of patients ..tissue samples etc etc and the research centre and whoever / whatever is funding it .
Scancell will have most likely have purchased slots and will pay the hospital per patient "delivered " . Research centres attached to large University hospitals can generate a lot of income for NHS hospitals... to the extent that NHS staff are told about specific research " financial targets" and encouraged to put patients forward to the research team .