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
Collaboration and partnership are at the heart of clinical research; as such our Trust works closely with regional, national and international collaborators to deliver high quality research. Over and above individual collaborations between researchers and their academic and industry colleagues, the principal partnerships we currently hold are:
As a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, University of York, are committed to enhancing their position as one of the world's premier institutions for inspirational and life-changing research. As such, they are our largest research partners. We therefore, collaboratively maximise all opportunities with University of York by aligning them to the University's research strengths, especially those within the Department of Health Sciences. To develop our research portfolio we work closely with the Research Design Services at University of York and the York Trials Unit.
Works in partnership with colleagues to undertake national, scientifically rigorous, randomised trials of the effectiveness and efficiency of existing or potential health care interventions in health care, education and crime and justice. The York Trials Unit conducts rigorous trials; provides academic leadership for rigorous trial design; provides support to trials external to the Unit and develops new trial methodologies.
Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Research Support Service Yorkshire and Humber (RSS) is one of eight regional services across England who each give design and methodological support to health, public health and social care researchers who are developing research applications. The RSS aims to increase the volume and quality of successful grant applications to open and peer reviewed funders. Their advisers provide expert advice and support to help develop and design high quality research proposals. Support is confidential and provided free of charge.
We are proud to work in partnership with Hull York Medical School to support the medical education and training of future doctors at Scarborough and York Hospitals, and to undertake healthcare research which meets the needs of our communities
As our neighbouring University relationships will be maximised over the coming years to enhance the collaborations between our two institutions.
Launched in 2023, the Institute for Health and Care Improvement brings together academics from across York St John University and the Trust to find solutions for the pressing issues facing health and social care today. They aim to influence decision-makers with evidence and research to inspire change as we navigate the health challenges of the modern world.
Coventry University has a campus within Scarborough Hospital and this relationship will be maximised over the coming years to enhance the collaboration between our two institutions.
The Research Delivery Network provides the infrastructure that allows high-quality clinical research to take place in the NHS, so that patients can benefit from new and better treatments. They help researchers to set up clinical studies quickly and effectively; support the life-sciences industry to deliver their research programmes; provide health professionals with research training; and work with patients to ensure their needs are at the very centre of all research activity.
The Yorkshire and Humber ARC supports people powered research that aims to tackle health inequalities and improve health and well-being in our communities. The themes of healthy childhood, mental health, multimorbidity, older people and urgent care are the priorities that have been identified by NHS partners and the public and will ensure our region will benefit from cutting-edge innovation. Our hospital is an active partner with ARCYH.
Medipex covers Yorkshire & Humber and East Midlands region and it connects the NHS with industry and academia, sharing knowledge of the NHS and commercialisation processes to facilitate the innovation cycle. They help our Trust identify IP opportunities from its research, to protect out IP interests.
There are 15 Health Innovation Hubs and they were created to improve health and generate economic growth in our region. They do this by spreading innovation at pace and scale by acting as a catalyst to connect NHS and academic organisations, local authorities, the third sector and industry. We are currently working with the Health Innovation Hub around our Calprotectin study to transform health care.
We are working with our local ICB to address population health that our Trust serves.
Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership comprises of NHS organisations, local councils, health and care providers and voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations.
The Partnership is one of 42 Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) which cover England to meet health and care needs across an area, coordinate services and plan in a way that improves population health and reduces inequalities between different groups.
SeeCHANGE Scarborough is an innovative cross sector partnership funded by the National Lottery Community Fund for three years to help realise a healthier Scarborough, where there are less health inequalities between the town and the rest of the country than at present.
The partnership has envisaged three main workstreams for itself over its funding life, namely:
1st April 2023 – 31st March 2024
York & Scarborough
50 research studies open to recruitment
3246 patients recruited into clinical trials
