Clinical Trials Unit
The Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) at King’s College London (formerly the Mental Health and Neurosciences CTU) helps research teams throughout the country carry out clinical trials safely and to a high scientific standard, and offers a range of services to help ensure the results are accurate and credible.
The Unit’s services are available to researchers based locally at the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP), throughout King’s Health Partners (KHP) and also across the UK.
The CTU offers a competitively priced Independent 24-hour web based Randomisation Service; a web-based GCP-compliant Data Capture and Management Service; a Trial Statistician Service; Trial Management and Data Management support.
The Independent Randomisation Service ensures reliability and credibility in the randomisation process: the CTU sets up and manages a database, purpose-designed for each individual trial, after being briefed by the research team and trial statistician.
The Online Data Capture and Management Service uses MACRO, a system designed by InferMed (www.infermed.com), to set up and test a database tailored to the data capture needs of an individual trial – from single-site small projects to large, complex multi-site international trials with multiple treatments and multiple arms. The Service includes the creation of bespoke eCRFs (case report forms) that enable participating centres to enter their data securely online, and offers different access rights (data entry or monitoring, for example) and query facilities for trial managers. The system is easy to use, easy to monitor and easy to archive, and gives trial statisticians confidence in the accuracy of the data collected and control of the database lock procedure.
To find out more about these services please visit our website (www.ctu.co.uk), or contact the CTU using the details below or on the ‘Contact Us’ page.
The Unit works closely with the KHP Research and Development (R & D) offices, ModePharma and the UKCRN.
The CTU is part of the Department of Biostatistics and is led by Professor Andrew Pickles, head of department and professor of Biostatistics and Psychological Methods.
Caroline Murphy is the Unit Manager. A qualified nurse, she specialised in neuroscience and palliative care before working as a research nurse and trial manager on a number of both commercial and academic-led projects.
Contact details:
Clinical Trials Unit
PO64
Institute of Psychiatry
De Crespigny Park
Denmark Hill
London SE5 8AF
Caroline Murphy
Caroline.Murphy@kcl.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)207 848 0532
Fax: +44 (0)207 848 5229