Award winners

We are delighted to share that EDGE recently won a joint award along with The Research and Development (R&D) team at University Hospital Southampton (UHS), for Team Excellence in the Management of Clinical Data. This award follows our collaborative work with the team at UHS on developing an innovative approach to support remote monitoring during the coronavirus pandemic using our EDGE Programme.

EDGE picked up the award at the ceremony hosted by the Association for Clinical Data Management (ACDM) on Monday 6 September 21, which was held in Manchester at the Innside hotel. The event was sponsored by another CIRU service, CORE, and showcased achievements in the management of clinical data and had over 100 delegates attend from across the country.

After a lot of time and dedication into this project, EDGE is now being successfully used at UHS for remote monitoring, allowing sponsors to access trial information remotely, limiting the need for them to visit the site in person. This was something that was proving a real issue at the start of the pandemic.

The team from UHS have led this innovation whilst working closely with some of the EDGE team members, and we are thrilled that they have had recognition of their hard work as well as recognition for what has been a successful collaboration between both teams.

Kim Lee, Senior Q&A Lead at the NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility (CRF), UHS, led on ensuring effective governance and information security for the project. Herself and colleagues overcome many hurdles and challenges through a very long process.

Following the outcome of the award Kim has shared this comment:

“We are thrilled to have won this award, it is testament to the determination and hard work of the team over the pandemic.”

For more information check out the September 2020 CRN Wessex article looking at the process that the R&D team went through to create the tool.