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What is the UK Trial Managers' Network?

The UK Trial Managers' Network (UKTMN) is a forum for the people who run UK publicly-funded trials. Its primary functions are to link trial managers together to ensure the sharing and dissemination of expertise and experience and to provide training tools developed by the members of the network to new trial managers.

Over the last 25 years trial managers/co-ordinators have expressed a real need for some way of sharing information and ideas, and keeping up to date with changes in the way clinical trials are managed. The Medical Research Council and Department of Health are providing core funding to support the Network which will provide a source of training and support for people responsible for the day-to-day management of publicly-funded trials in the UK.

Aims

The TMN aims to facilitate the development of a well trained, highly motivated, effective workforce of trial managers within the UK health care system who will make an important contribution to the efficient delivery of high quality clinical trials. It also aims to establish a forum which will promote best practice in clinical trials, and provide a focus for the development of skills and expertise of trial managers as part of the larger national clinical trial network. The importance of the network was highlighted in the MRC Clinical Trials for Tomorrow Review (2003).