Liz Merrifield
Senior Professional Specialist in Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs
Overview
I am Quality Assurance Manager at the Centre for Trials Research and have over 15 years of experience of working in this sector. I work across an extensive portfolio of clinical trials covering behaviour change, solid cancer and blood cancers, children and young people, and infections, and provide QA expertise and input throughout all stages of the clinical trial lifecycle.
I am lead for Internal Audit within the CTR, and together with our team of auditors we conduct risk-based trial and system audits, to monitor compliance with established procedures, and regulatory requirements. In addition, I chair the Quality Management Group, whose remit is to ensure quality systems are embedded throughout all aspects of the CTRs working practices and maintain an effective oversight of compliance.
My current interests are in data governance, with a particular focus on GDPR and data sharing activities. I sit on several working groups focussing on data lifecycle, data de-identification, and the oversight of the provision of routine data from third party suppliers (e.g. NHS Digital, SAIL).