What is a Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility (WT CRF)?
In 1997, the Wellcome Trust, in collaboration with the English and Scottish Health Departments, launched an initiative to strengthen clinical research in the UK by funding the construction costs of five new Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facilities (WTCRFs). Five facilities were originally set up in Birmingham, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Manchester and Southampton. The facilities provide a purpose-built environment for patient oriented research, where clinical researchers have access to cutting-edge clinical facilities, human resources and patients. They help to encourage collaborations between basic and clinical scientists helping to ensure that advances in biomedical research feed through into improvements in healthcare. By July 2006, the facilities were found to be so successful that a consortium of research funders led by the Wellcome Trust announced further funding of £84million to develop and strengthen the facilities (see What is the Clinical Research Infrastructure Initiative).
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