Quintiles Partners with Leading Foundation Trust and University to Improve Patient Care and Drive Efficiency in Clinical Research.Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust NHS Foundation Trusts (often referred to as "foundation hospitals") are hospitals which are part of the National Health Service in England. Function They have a significant amount of managerial and financial freedom when compared to existing NHS Trust. and King's College King's College, former name of Columbia Univ. London sign collaborative agreement LONDON -- A significant step in driving innovation, improving patient care and increasing efficiency in early stage clinical research was taken today with the announcement that two of the UK's leading institutions - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London - have signed a collaborative agreement with Quintiles Quintiles Transnational Corp. is a contract research organization which serves the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries. History Quintiles was founded in 1982 by Dennis Gillings and as of 2007 it has 18,000 employees. , the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions worldwide. As part of the agreement, Quintiles has commissioned a state of the art research facility with 30 beds, for both patients and healthy volunteers involved in research, on the 14th floor of Guy's Hospital Guy's Hospital is a large NHS hospital in the borough of Southwark in south east London. It is administratively a part of Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. in central London The term Central London refers to the districts of London which are considered closest to the centre. There is no such conventional definition, nor any official one, for the entire area that can be called "central London". . The facility, to be completed in early 2010, will now be known as the Quintiles Drug Research Unit at Guy's Hospital. The facility significantly increases Quintiles' capacity to conduct proof-of-concept programmes that help biopharmaceutical companies develop better medicines faster. "The biopharmaceutical industry must bring new drugs to market faster and with greater predictability to address declining research and development productivity," said Eddie Caffrey, Senior Vice President, Global Phase I, Quintiles. "The smartest move is to invest in intelligent, early-stage development because, when done well, it has significant impact on speed and cost of the overall development process." A further strength of the collaboration is that it will bring Quintiles physically and professionally closer to academic and medical colleagues in the Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC AHSC Arizona Health Sciences Center AHSC Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation AHSC Affordable Housing Study Commission (Florida) ), King's Health Partners, and its National Institute for Health Research (NIHR NIHR Norwegian Institute of Human Rights ) comprehensive Biomedical Research Biomedical research (or experimental medicine), in general simply known as medical research, is the basic research or applied research conducted to aid the body of knowledge in the field of medicine. Centre (BRC BRC Black Rock City (Burning Man) BRC British Retail Consortium BRC Business Resource Center (Small Business Administration) BRC Bisexual Resource Center BRC Black Radical Congress ). The Quintiles Drug Research Unit at Guy's Hospital will be perfectly positioned next to leading-edge Clinical Research Facilities and a Good Manufacturing Practice Good Manufacturing Practice or GMP (also referred to as 'cGMP' or 'current Good Manufacturing Practice') is a term that is recognized worldwide for the control and management of manufacturing and quality control testing of foods and pharmaceutical products. (GMP GMP (guanosine monophosphate): see guanine. ) Pharmacy currently being developed by Guy's and St Thomas' and King's College London to drive forward the translation of science onto the wards -from 'bench to bedside' - and will also be adjacent to the home of the BRC's new Faculty of Translational Medicine translational medicine Molecular medicine The constellation of activities which seek to translate the science of gene discovery, gene transfer, and functional genomics into gene-targeted therapies . Ron Kerr, Chief Executive of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust said: "We want to deliver the best possible care to our patients, and we know that aligning clinical service excellence with translational research has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to do this. We're excited by the potential of this collaboration as it will lead to a smoother and faster clinical trials process, ensuring our patients and local people are amongst the first to benefit from any new discoveries." Professor Robert Lechler, Vice-Principal (Health), King's College London and Director of King's Health Partners, said: "King's College London's important partnership with Quintiles and Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, one of our Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) partners, is exactly the sort of collaboration we expect to see at the heart of King's Health Partners. Through this collaboration and the significant investments we have already made to develop first class clinical research facilities, we will create a powerful 'experimental medicine' hub across four floors of the Guy's Hospital Tower, allowing us to harness the expertise of our world class scientists and clinicians to drive new discoveries in medicine and clinical treatment." The agreement between Quintiles, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London was brokered by King's Business, the innovation support company for King's College London. This expansion builds on Quintiles' existing, industry leading, network of Phase I facilities across Europe, Asia and the US. Its experts and pioneers utilise integrated data platforms comprising technically advanced electronic data capture and reporting to facilitate early go/no-go decision making. This new facility in Guy's Hospital Tower, is an expansion of Quintiles existing facilities in Newcomen Street. About Quintiles Quintiles is the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions worldwide. The Quintiles network of 23,000 engaged professionals in more than 50 countries around the globe works with an unwavering commitment to patients, safety and ethics. Quintiles helps biopharmaceutical companies navigate risk and seize opportunities in an environment where change is constant. For more information, please visit www.quintiles.com. About Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Guy's and St Thomas' provides around 850,000 million patient contacts in acute and specialist hospital services every year. As one of the biggest NHS Trusts This is a list of NHS Trusts in England and Wales.
abbr. National Health Service NHS (in Britain) National Health Service .uk. About King's College London King's College London is one of the top 25 universities in the world (Times Higher Education 2008) and the fourth oldest in England. A research-led university based in the heart of London, King's has 19,700 students from more than 150 countries, and 5,400 employees. An investment of over 500 million has been made in the redevelopment of its estate in recent years About King's Health Partners King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital King's College Hospital is a primary care facility in the London Borough of Lambeth, referred to locally and by staff simply as "King's" or abbreviated internally to "KCH". It serves an inner city population of 700,000 in the London boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham. and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract . The driving purpose of King's Health Partners is to continually seek and bring about swifter and more effective improvements in health and well-being for patients in London and people everywhere. Combining the best of basic and translational research, clinical excellence and world-class teaching to deliver groundbreaking advances in physical and mental healthcare. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org |
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