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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Accessibility
This Accessibility Statement covers York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust website www.research.yorkhospitals.nhs.uk.
This website is run by York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website. For example, that means you should be able to:
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
In many browsers, you can zoom by holding CTRL and pressing + or - . Some browsers also support zooming by holding CTRL and using the mouse scroll wheel. Please see your specific browser help pages if you are having difficulty.
We want as many people as possible to be able to use this website but we know some parts of this website are not fully accessible:
If you need information on this website in a different format like accessible PDF, large print, easy read, audio recording or braille please:
We’ll consider your request and get back to you within 21 days.
If you cannot view the maps on our ‘Our Sites’ and ‘Our Hospitals’ pages, call or email Communications Team for directions.
We’re always looking to improve the accessibility of this website. If you find any problems not listed on this page or think we’re not meeting accessibility requirements, please contact the Communications Team. We will need to know the details of the page you are looking at, information you thought should be clearer and anything else you think would help us to improve it.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is responsible for enforcing the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (the ‘accessibility regulations’). If you’re not happy with how we respond to your complaint, contact the Equality Advisory and Support Service (EASS).
All our hospitals have audio induction loops, or if you contact us before your visit we can arrange a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter. Get in touch with us.
York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to making its website accessible, in accordance with the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018.
This website is partially compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 AA standard, due the non-compliances and exemptions listed below.
Non-compliance with the accessibility regulations
1. Some of our page titles are long, causing a technical fail on descriptive titles for web pages, which requires titles to be short. In most cases, this is related to names of clinical procedures.
We are not going to fix this, as the content is still understandable, and changing titles might cause compliance issues.
2. Some images and buttons do not have a text alternative, so people using a screen reader cannot access the information. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.1.1 (non-text content).
We plan to add text alternatives for all non-decorative images by September 2021. The WCAG criteria makes a distinction about non-text content that is “pure decoration” and “used only for visual formatting”, so long as it is implemented in a way that it can be ignored by assistive technology like screen readers.
When we publish new content we’ll make sure our use of images meets accessibility standards.
3. Some of our videos do not have accurate captions. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.2.2 (captions (prerecorded)).
All our videos are first uploaded to YouTube, which has a system of automatically captioning videos. Sometimes the captions do not accurately capture what the people in the videos are saying. By September 2021 we will make sure the captions are edited so that they are correct.
When we publish new content we’ll make sure our use video captions meets accessibility standards.
4. We are aware that some link text doesn't make sense when read on its own (for example 'click here') and on some pages there are multiple links with the same link text but different destinations on one page. This can introduce confusion for keyboard and screen reader users. This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.4.4 (link purpose (in context)).
We plan to fix this as we renew and refresh each page of the website.
5. Some of the page content is not labelled as being in the body, main, header or footer sections of the page. This may lead to confusing or inaccurate screen reader output. This does not meet WCAG success criterion 1.3.1 (Info and Relationships).
We plan to fix this as we renew and refresh each page of the website.
Navigation and accessing information
There is no way to skip the repeated content in the page header (for example, a ‘skip to main content’ option). This fails WCAG 2.1 success criterion 2.4.1 (bypass blocks).
Our website is based on an open-source content management system and we believe it would be a disproportionate burden to amend this. We will continue to work with our third-party CMS supplier to understand whether this can be addressed in a proportionate way.
This section covers issues that we do not need to fix right now. The law calls these exemptions.
PDFs and other documents
The accessibility regulations do not require us to fix PDFs or other documents published before 23 September 2018 if they’re not essential to providing our services.
Some of our older PDFs and documents don’t meet accessibility standards. We don't intend to make some documents that are non essential to providing our services accessible.
However, we know some of our PDFs and other documents are essential to providing our services, such as our PPI Resources. We plan to replace these key documents with new PDFs which meet accessibility standards as soon as they due for renewal.
Any new PDFs or documents we publish that are essential to accessing our services will meet accessibility standards.
Useful information about ways to make Acrobat documents more accessible is provided on Adobe’s website. Further information can be found on Adobe pages on accessibility.
This statement was prepared 8 September 2020. It will be reviewed no later than 30 December 2021.
1st April 2023 – 31st March 2024
York & Scarborough
50 research studies open to recruitment
3246 patients recruited into clinical trials
