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
Paediatrics Research covers a wide array of conditions and treatments within the environment of child health. The Trust are very proud to be able to offer children with their parents the opportunity to help shape and improve the care for the future.
Paediatrics is the most diverse area of research within the Trust with research covering many different conditions, with recent studies as varied as respiratory, cancer care, haematology and neonatal care.
In 2022 we were very proud to deliver our very first children's vaccine study, the highly successful HARMONIE RSV trial; click here for a York Press news article on this trial.
The Trust host paediatrics centres at our York Hospital and Scarborough Hospital sites as well as regional services within North Yorkshire. More information about the Trust's Child Health Centre is available here.
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
