With a commitment to develop research capacity, the Centre is keen to ensure there is appropriate support for its research staff, registered students, and those seconded to work in the Centre from the Trust. The Centre has developed a training strategy, with database of local suitable resources available via King's College London (KCL) and King's College Hospital (KCH), to match its research activities. The centre is also working with local partners Guys & St. Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT), KCH & KCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre to develop dedicated training programmes. There will be training opportunities to support the development of general research skills as well as specific techniques.
Secondments
A key objective for King's Patient Safety and Service Quality (KPSSQ) is to develop research capacity through secondments of KCH staff into the Centre. These joint NHS and academic research teams take advantage of the first hand knowledge of NHS staff combined with specialised academic knowledge to help improve the sharing of knowledge and implement this knowledge on safety and quality quickly, to the benefit of patients. We are currently recruiting for a secondment post in the Innovations team. Click here for more information.
Studentships
The Centre has recruited three PhD studentships in the field of organisational research on patient safety and quality of care, within each of the four programmes to complement existing work. Studentships will support full time study to be completed by March 2012.
Other Studentships
The Centre has already been successful in gaining two prestigious ESRC CASE Studentships to enable the post-holders to undertake full time study of a PhD.