1| Doorway to primary care research support

• First of all we'll advise you if your study is eligible for network support
• If it is, we'll provide your route into primary care
• We can provide you with a named contact for the duration of your study who will facilitate access to network resources

2|Expert advice in primary care recruitment

• We can advise on your primary care recruitment strategy at any point during the study life-cycle
• We can pilot your recruitment strategy within the primary care environment to check for 'do-ability'
• Where necessary, we'll advise on alternative recruitment strategies
• We'll use our local knowledge to help you plan your study delivery in primary care

3| NHS support costs advice and support

• We can help you to identify and attribute these costs for your grant application
• We can help arrange access to NHS support resources once your study is confirmed as eligible

4| Governance and NHS permissions advice

• We'll help you find your way through NHS governance processes
• We'll liaise with NHS R&D teams on your behalf to minimise delays with approvals

5| Site selection and set-up

• We'll use our local knowledge to identify and engage the right primary care sites for your study
• We'll promote your study to primary care sites
• We can advise you on working with primary care sites
• We can advise you on the materials which primary care sites will require to support your study

6| Recruitment

• We'll support both you and your primary care sites to deliver recruitment to time and to target
• We'll advise on database search strategies

7| Active performance monitoring

• We'll help you and your primary care sites to performance manage the progress of studies
• We'll help to identify and overcome recruitment barriers

8| Training

• We'll support primary care sites to access study-specific training where required
• We'll help the research community gain the necessary training which underpins research e.g. Good Clinical Practice training