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About us
The Smoking Cessation Service Research Network (SCSRN) is a co-operative of UK Stop Smoking Services that are interested in being involved in research to develop their own performance and determine best practice nationally. Its aim is to facilitate high quality evaluation of innovations in clinical practice.
The SCSRN is being coordinated by the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre at University College London. The cooperative is open to any service with a commitment to delivering a high quality service and rigorous collection of information necessary to determine effectiveness. |
Benefits of SCSRN membership:
- Access to Research Forum with direct links to academic staff in the Health Behaviour Research Centre at University College London
- Access to clinical and research tools and up to date policy guidance, with email alerts when new documents are added to the site
- Opportunities to collaborate with other members in the design, implementation, evaluation and reporting of research into clinical innovations. SCSRN research projects
- Opportunities that arise from time to time to participate in funded clinical trials, including pharmaceutical trials
- Receiving support and advice from other member services and the coordinating centre
- A vehicle for sharing early findings from evaluations of clinical innovations and an opportunity to seek and receive feedback on this
- The ability to publicise that the service is a member of this research network
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Minimum requirements
Services that wish to become members must be willing to adopt the Russell Standard (Clinical) for collection of data on effectiveness and provide figures for abstinence according to this standard on an annual basis. This standard has been designed in consultation with the services to standardise monitoring of effectiveness so as to allow meaningful comparisons between different treatments. It has been adopted by the DoH as the standard for reporting success rates in English services.
Membership is free, but members must be willing to provide basic details of their service provision.
To apply to join the SCSRN, click here.
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How to use the SCSRN
All services are extremely busy providing their clinical service. Therefore, the SCSRN will make no demands on their time but will simply be a resource to facilitate clinical innovation and research as and when members wish to undertake it. The SCSRN is a cooperative and has no formal structure or expectations.
The hub of the SCSRN is it's website. This can be used to:
- identify possible collaborators
- obtain resources
- publicise opportunities
- publicise findings and seek feedback
- discuss issues relating to research and monitoring
For further information contact SCSRN Director Andy McEwen:
andy.mcewen@ucl.ac.uk
SCSRN, CRUK Health Behaviour Research Centre, University College London,
2-16 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 6BT.
The SCSRN gratefully acknowledges the financial support of Pfizer Ltd towards the administration of the SCSRN and towards the development and maintenance of this website. |
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