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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This area of research focuses on improving the treatment and prevention of communicable transmitted infections such as HIV, Chlamydia or Hepatitis. Our studies can also look at the support and wellbeing of patients accessing the service, including improving quality of life and mental health support.
Research within the Trust is conducted at the excellent YorSexualHealth Service who provide treatment and preventative care at clinics across North Yorkshire with specialist centres based in York, Harrogate and Scarborough as well as smaller sites throughout the region.
More information about the YorSexualHealth service 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
