Improving equity of access to cancer clinical trials in Scotland

Appendix 2: Baseline clinical trials staffing data

Ayrshire & Arran, WosCRN

Number of Staff

• Oncologists are visiting clinicians from Beatson
• 2.42wte band 6 nurses
• 0.1wte 8A Pharmacist for CEPA (Regional Chemotherapy Electronic Prescribing and Administration Service) and
• 1.2wte band 5 pharmacists

Funding Source

• 60k from cancer research network- R&D fund the rest

Vacancies/Gaps

• Not able to cover RN annual leave.
• Gaps- band 5 and band 6 nurse gap but no resource
• no resource for data manager

Forth Valley, WosCRN

Number of Staff

• 5 oncology sessions- breast, haematology, Urology, Lung and Colorectal
  2 wte research nurses

Funding Source

• some funding from WosCRN, CSO allocation

Vacancies/Gaps

• 1 wte band 7

Greater Glasgow and Clyde, WOsCRN

Number of Staff

• 36 research PAs- oncology consultants
• 2 PA Pathologists
• 3 research fellows
• 0.4 wte Macmillan funded late effect post
• 22.7wte nurses
• 3wte HCSW/sample handlers
• 31.2wte data managers and admin support
• 1.6 wte clinical trial radiographers
• 2.3wte oncology research pharmacists
• 2PAs Beatson Clinical Research Facilities Director

Funding Source

• data manager posts rely on commercial income
• clinical trial radiographers are charity funded -£106884
• R&D fund oncology PAs,50% of research fellows, part of radiographer and radiotherapist posts, band 7 nurse for ATIMPS, oncology research pharmacists and the 2 PAs for Beatson CRF Director

Vacancies

• 1.8wte clinical oncologist vacancies and 1wte medical oncologist vacancy. Plan for further 1.wte medical oncologist post late 2022
• Beatson CRF Quality Manager

Lanarkshire, WosCRN

Number of Staff

• No research-specific funded Oncology sessions - Oncologists are visiting clinicians from NHS GG&C (Beatson). Service scope – including service levels and services provided - fall under a Service Level Agreement.
• Solid tumours:2.50 WTE Band 6 RN,
• Haematological cancer:1.6 WTE Band 6 RN

Funding Source

• 45% of nurse post funding is from WosCRN, rest R&D

Vacancies/Gaps

• No Research Nurse gaps for Cancer Clinical Trials at the present level of recruitment / activity.
• Gap identifed that would require funding- band 5 clinical trials aseptic pharmacy technician 0.5wte £21645 and band 7 clinical trials aseptic pharmacist 0.5 wte £31775

Grampian, NOSCRN

Number of Staff

• 2 NRS fellowships for breast cancer surgeons and 1 NRS fellowship for GP in cancer - as well as 8.9 sessions for oncologists and 3.7 sessions for haematologists
• 11.2wte nurses, 1.2 wte HCSW
• 7.8 wte data managers

Funding Source

• Funding from NOSCRN support 3.63wte nurses.
• Other posts are funded by R&D and endowments.
• PA sessions for clinicians are a mixture of funding sources including grant, commercial, NHS, academic and research

Vacancies/Gaps

• Consultant vacancies in oncology

Highland, NOSCRN

Number of Staff

• No information on number of oncology sessions
• 4.29wte nurses
• 3.8wte data managers

Funding Source

• Funding from NOSCRN supports
• 0.8wte nurse and 2.2wte data managers.
• Other posts are funded by R&D

Vacancies/Gaps

• Consultant vacancies in oncology

Tayside, NOSCRN

Number of Staff

• NRS researcher support for 9 consultants comprising 18 PAs- 2 Oncologists, 2 Radiologists, 3 Surgeons, 1 Pathologist and 1 Haematologist
• 4.4 FTE nurses
• 2.7 FTE data managers

Funding Source

• Consultant PAs funded through R&D, and academic grants
• Research Nurses: 1.6FTE SCRN, 1.8 R&D 1.0 endowments/Trial income/academic grants/commercial trial income
• Data Mangers: 0.99 FTE SCRN 0.9 FTE R&D, 0.81 FTE endowments/Trial income/ grants

Vacancies/Gaps

• 5.0FTE Oncology consultant vacancies

Borders, SECRN

Number of Staff

• Oncologists are visiting clinicians from Lothian-2 clinical oncologist sessions -breast and lung
• 1.2 wte nursing (0.4 wte supports other areas as well)
• 0.4wte data manager and 0.4wte admin (admin supports other areas)

Funding Source

• 20k from SECRN and CSO allocation total cost of nurse posts for 2022/23 is £83209

Vacancies/Gap

• Band 6 1wte research pharmacy post remains unfilled - currently funding band 5 resource to cover
• Lung oncologist is not research active in NHS Borders
• Haematology vacancies- difficulty recruiting to not able to cover RN annual leave

Dumfies & Galloway, SECRN

Number of Staff

• No information on number of oncology sessions
• 0.6wtenurse,
• 1wte data manager
• 1 wte admin support

Funding Source

• Nurse funded by SECRN

Vacancies/Gaps

• No R&D manager
• No current breast oncologist cover

Fife, SECRN

Number of Staff

• No information on number of oncology sessions
• 3.4 wte nurse and support staff
• 0.5wte pharmacist and 0.6wte pharmacy technicians

Funding Source

• 0.8wte haematology and oncology research nurse funding from SECRN, R&D funds remaining 2.6wte
• R&D fund pharmacy posts

Vacancies/Gaps

• pharmacist post vacant for long period- due to be filled in March 2022 0.5 wte but supports all research

Lothian, SECRN

Number of Staff

• 2 NRS fellowships for cancer, plus haematologist and urological surgeon whose research programmes focus on cancer. 8 oncologists with ring-fenced research time (most are ex-NRS fellows)
• 23.2 wte nurses
• 19.0wte data managers
• 1.0wte EDGE manager
• 6.0wte Tissue consenter/processors
• 1.0wte Pharmacy technician

Funding Source

• Funding from SECRN, CRUK, ECMC, commercial and non-commercial income and R&D, drugs saving reinvested by service into trials pharmacy support

Vacancies/Gaps

• 3.0wte nurse vacancies + supporting SACT Standard of care service due to vacancies there
• 2.0wte data manager vacancies, consultant vacancies in Oncology and Haematology