The document describes consulting services offered by Critical Point in four areas: research, training, scientific support, and clinical care/practice standards. Research services include the full spectrum of clinical research support from study design to execution, analysis, and publication. Training services offer customized teaching for all health professions from novice to expert levels. Scientific support assists with literature reviews, emerging trends analysis, and product innovation consulting. Clinical care/practice standards consulting provides expert clinical advice, mentoring, and support to disseminate guidelines.

1. Training • Research • Scientific support • Clinical care • Practice standards
Consulting Services
Research services include:
• Research pipeline planning
• Study design and protocol development
• Regulatory/ethics approvals
• Project management
• GCP compliance
• Quality assurance
• Turnkey research project execution
• Data analysis
• Data write-up and publication
• SOP development
• Post-graduate mentoring
Research
Scientific
support
Training
Clinical
care
Practice
standards
Training services include:
• Customised teaching/training
in all aspects of clinical nutrition
• Accommodation of audience skill
level from novice to master
• Customised training for all
health professions (doctors,
nurses, dietitians, pharmacists),
and to industry
• Language of science, methods and statistics
Scientific Support services include:
• State-of-the-science reporting and strategy planning
• Producing literature summary and review
• Monitoring emerging trends and evidence threads
• Identification of evidence and research gaps
• Consulting on product positioning and innovation
Clinical Care services include:
• Expert advice on clinical cases
• Clinical mentoring
• Operational support
• Clinical care solutions
Practice Standards services
include:
• Dissemination and
implementation of practice
standards and guidelines
• Quality metrics
• Scientific and medical writing and publishing
• Identification of professional education needs
• Innovations for resource-poor settings

2. Training • Research • Scientific support • Clinical care • Practice standards
Consulting services
Contact me:
Lauren Hill PhD RD(SA)
E: laurenhill@mweb.co.za
www.criticalpoint.co.za
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With over 20 years experience and acknowledged expertise in this discipline, Critical Point now
specialises in consulting, professional advisory input and thought leading on all aspects of critical care
nutrition and diverse related scientific knowledge domains. Critical Point offers proficiency in complex
tasks and a flexible, innovative and highly customised problem-solving approach to create and protect
value for your business or practice.
The consultancy can deliver on-site or remote services anywhere in Southern Africa, and extends
creative solutions for resource-limited settings.
See reverse for more detail on some of the many functions performed by the consultancy.
Competitive fee structure