Good Clinical Practice (GCP)

For: researchers working on medicines for human use including research ethics committees, principal investigators, trial managers and research nurses

Approved by: the Royal College of Physicians of the UK for 7 distance-learning CPD credits

Contributors include:

• Heather House, Head of Clinical Trials and Research Governance, Oxford University
• Gary Roper, Research Governance Manager, Imperial College London
• Fiona Bull, Commercial Trials Manager, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Content:

The Medicines for Human Use (Clinical Trials) Regulations 2004 requires that clinical trials are conducted in accordance with the ICH Guideline for Good Clinical Practice (GCP).

This course is now used by most of top UK medical schools and NHS Research units. More than 500 researchers have enrolled on the course in first year.

This programme consists of 5 courses with 7.5 hours of content:

Course list

• GCP 01. Protocol & Associated Documents - 1 CPD point
• GCP 02. Applications, Agreements, Approvals - 2 CPD points
• GCP 03. Trial Master Files - 1 CPD point
• GCP 04. Conducting the Trial - 2 CPD points
• GCP 05. Safety Reporting - 1 CPD point

Development Group:

Seventeen of the UK’s top medical schools and NHS research & development teams form this development group:

• Cambridge University
• Glasgow University
• Imperial College London
• Manchester University
• Oxford University
• Sheffield University
• Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Chelsea & Westminster Healthcare NHS Trust
• Greater Glasgow Health Board
• Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust
• Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
• Central Manchester & Manchester Children’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
• North West London Hospitals NHS Trust
• Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust
• St Mary’s NHS Trust
• Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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