@article{bb4782e0624d4317840989aa285017d2,
title = "Clinical trial management: a profession in crisis?",
abstract = "Clinical trial managers play a vital role in the design and conduct of clinical trials in the UK. There is a current recruitment and retention crisis for this specialist role due to a complex set of factors, most likely to have come to a head due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Academic clinical trial units and departments are struggling to recruit trial managers to vacant positions, and multiple influences are affecting the retention of this highly skilled workforce. Without tackling this issue, we face major challenges in the delivery on the Department of Health and Social Care's Future of UK Clinical Research Delivery implementation plan. This article, led by a leading network of and for UK Trial Managers, presents some of the issues and ways in which national stakeholders may be able to address this.",
keywords = "COVID-19, Clinical Trials as Topic/organization & administration, Humans, Pandemics, Research Design, Workforce",
author = "{UK Trial Managers{\textquoteright} Network} and Mitchell, {Eleanor J.} and K Goodman and Natalie Wakefield and C Cochran and S Cockayne and Simon Connolly and Riti Desai and Suzanne Hartley and Lawton, {S A} and K Oatey and Shelley Rhodes and Savage, {Joshua S.} and Jodi Taylor and Youssouf, {N F J}",
note = "Funding Information: This paper has been written on behalf of the UKTMN Executive Group: Eleanor Mitchell, Kirsteen Goodman, Natalie Wakefield, Claire Cochran, Sarah Cockayne, Simon Connolly, Riti Desai, Lucy Fletcher, Suzanne Hartley, Sarah Lawton, Ryonfa Lee, Katherine Oatey, Shelley Rhodes, Joshua Savage, Jodi Taylor and Nabila Youssouf. The paper contains NIHR Open Data supplied by NIHR Centre for Business Intelligence, Crown copyright and database right, [25 March 2022], licensed under the Open Government Licence (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). Funding Information: No specific funding was received for this article. UKTMN is funded by the Nuffield Department for Population Health (NDPH) at the University of Oxford and hosted by the Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit at the University of Nottingham. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s).",
year = "2022",
month = apr,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1186/s13063-022-06315-8",
language = "English",
volume = "23",
journal = "Trials",
issn = "1745-6215",
publisher = "BMC",
number = "1",
}