National Meetings

The Group holds two national business/review meetings each year – in January and June - at which all studies, protocols and activities are reviewed.

Separate Scientific meetings are also held – either as stand-alone CCLG meetings or in collaboration with other organisations.

Once a year, usually in May, an “Up Data” meeting is organised. These meetings provide an opportunity for all the data managers from the Centres to meet each other, and the staff of the Data Centre, and are an extremely valuable training event. They are held in a different centre each year and provide an opportunity to combine a visit to the local children’s hospital. The meetings play a vital role in maintaining and strengthening the ‘networking’ between centres and the Data Centre, and also between centres. Two additional one-day training events are now held in the Autumn and Spring each year. A monthly Newsletter, ‘Up Data’ is circulated to all data managers in the centres.