York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive range of acute hospital and specialist healthcare services for approximately 800,000 people living in and around York, North Yorkshire, North East Yorkshire and Ryedale - an area covering 3,400 square miles.
The Research & Development Office strive to increase the opportunities for patients and their families to be informed about, and involved in, our research and research processes.
The information on these pages will be relevant to York Hospital staff NHS Foundation Trust staff who are planning their own research study.
This section contains the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Guidance documents issued by the R&D Unit.
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About Us
Ophthalmology is the clinical discipline of vision and eye health related conditions and disorders.
Research in this speciality can range from investigating the treatment for common conditions such as age related Macular Degeneration or Glaucoma to uveitis and eye surgery interventions. Our research can also look into Neurology related research that investigates the relationship between vision loss, the brain and the nervous system.
The Eye Care Service covers our sites of York, Scarborough and Bridlington and within this service we host a dedicated optometry and photography staff and equipment for delivery of research.
Our research consultants have a great national, international and commercial industry reputation for delivery and we work in close collaboration with the York Neuroimaging Centre at the University of York.
If you are interested in finding out more about research in this area, please contact: yhs-tr.research.governance@nhs.net
1st April 2023 – 31st March 2024
York & Scarborough
50 research studies open to recruitment
3246 patients recruited into clinical trials
