Joint Research Office
Liverpool Health Partners Joint Research Office is dedicated to supporting our partners to design, develop and initiate new studies to support their research portfolio.
The JRO team work with academic and NHS partners to provide expert knowledge, advice and support. This ensures programme bids and research applications are competitive and feasible. The JRO research governance is underpinned by a robust legal and regulatory framework, in order to provide a risk-based model for research and innovation.
What does the JRO do?
The JRO has the following specific functions:
Liverpool Health Partners provides system wide pre-award support, enabling partners to develop competitive, deliverable research bids at scale.
We specialise in costing and coordinating applications for complex studies across multiple organisations and NHS sites, bringing together partners to ensure bids are robust, deliverable and aligned across the system. This includes support with the NIHR SoECAT (Schedule of Events Costing Attribution Tool) completion and validation through the research delivery network, ensuring compliance and readiness for submission.
What this means
All studies requiring a regulatory sponsor must have appropriate funding in place to support delivery.
The LHP JRO Grants team works with partners to develop the financial and delivery model for research proposals, advising on processes, systems and requirements for grant applications. A standard proforma is used to capture key information on the research concept, delivery approach and funding requirements.
Get in touch
To discuss support for your application, please contact:
grants@lhpjro.nhs.uk
You can find the required proforma for your request here →
Liverpool Health Partners convenes formal sponsorship for both interventional and non interventional clinical research studies across our partner organisations.
We provide a coordinated, system wide approach to sponsorship, enabling high quality research to be designed, delivered and governed at scale across the liverpool city region. All studies are regulated and delivered to the highest standards, ensuring data and sample integrity and patient safety.
What this means
All research studies involving health and social care, NHS patients, their tissue or data must have a sponsor.
The sponsor holds overall responsibility for the study, ensuring that it is designed to appropriate standards and that arrangements are in place for its conduct, governance and reporting.
Through Liverpool Health Partners, this function is delivered in a consistent and coordinated way across the system, supporting researchers and partners to navigate sponsorship requirements with confidence.
Apply for sponsorship
All studies must complete a sponsorship application.
Our legal team supports with contractual arrangements with third parties, enabling commercial research and innovation. This applies mainly to our NHS partners who will be supported with any external and internal subcontracts. The main roles of this function are:
Support the drafting of template agreements and contracts for the use of the JRO, LHP and key stakeholders.
Providing access to high quality contracting and legal support for research contracts, including the drafting, negotiation and agreement of clinically focused contracts.
Leading negotiations with external clients to resolve contractual issues in multi-partner agreements.
The JRO dashboard provides a real time, system wide view of performance across the research portfolio, enabling data driven decision making and supporting the growth of research and innovation across the Liverpool City Region.
The LHP BI team lead the development and continuous enhancement of advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, delivering high quality insight and KPI reporting for JRO partners and the LHP Board.
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