Table 9 Researcher team support and involvement

Input from research team

Training day generally good:

we’d had a lot of the literature beforehand so we were more or less up to speed with what we need to do before the training session but it’s always nice to have it reinforced.

(Recruiter 5 Research Nurse, Low Recruiter)

(the presentation) was very good and it was pitched at a level where we as non-clinicians could understand it.

(Recruiter 6 Practice Manager, Low Recruiter)

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Trial detail overwhelming:

I just wonder whether we were trying to do too much. There’s too much detail.

(Recruiter 1 General Practitioner, Low Recruiter)

A lot of paperwork: I do remember thinking it’s an awful lot of [...] paperwork.

(Recruiter 8 General Practitioner, Low Recruiter)

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Easier for those who had undertaken GCP training:

I think they [the General Practitioners] found it a bit more overwhelming than I did.

(Recruiter 2 Research Nurse, High Recruiter)

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On-going study team support helpful:

‘to keep us focused’

(Recruiter 2 Research Nurse, High Recruiter

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Newsletters aiding patient recruitment: it gives you that... that little bit of a competitive edge on um, on your recruitment if you can see that other practices are doing well or um tips on what they are doing that perhaps you might not be doing.

(Recruiter 5 Research Nurse, Low Recruiter)

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Genial nature of research team: helpful

we’ve had a lot of support from the team. We’ve had newsletters. She (the trial manager) rung and emailed us to ask if there’s anything she can help with.

(Recruiter 6 Practice Manager, Low Recruiter)

She (the trial manager) emailed me a couple of times and I’ve... if I’ve had a question, she’s very good and she emails you back straight away you know [...] you feel quite supported.

(Recruiter 2 Research Nurse, High Recruiter)