The Role of a CL Nurse
Our Cure Leukaemia Research Nurses play a crucial role in the work we do, and our nurses are at the heart of the Trials Acceleration Programme (TAP).
At the start of 2020, Cure Leukaemia began a 3-year £3,000,000 commitment to funding the national TAP network.
The TAP network is made up of 12 specialist research nurses based in 12 of the UK’s biggest cities, who work to connect patients to world-class and potentially life-saving blood cancer clinical trials.
What does a Cure Leukaemia Research Nurse do?
There are two sides to being a Cure Leukaemia-funded Research Nurse.
The first is ‘recruiting’ patients and looking for patients to go on the trial programmes.
And the second part is looking to see which trial is better for the patient and which trial can offer a better result.
It’s important to make sure that the trial will be of a benefit to the patients, and will help to make them better and to make sure that the patients won’t feel too ill from the trial therapy.
Without Cure Leukaemia Research Nurses, clinical trials just do not happen.
Side effects of treatments can be gruelling so our team of Research Nurses are on hand to ensure that the patient has a good quality of life throughout their treatment and are their single point of access during the process.
Clare, a Cure Leukaemia funded researched nurse based in Worcester explained a bit more about her job role, and how important it is.
Hayley, Cure Leukaemia Research Nurse
