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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For Patients and Public
We take part in and conduct research for many reasons such as:
The development of new treatments and medical devices can take a long time, so often taking part in research is to help future generations, not immediate populations.
There is a continuing need to keep research going as our population is growing and we are now living longer which means many of us are suffering from more than one medical problem at a time (co morbidities).
Research can take many forms; clinical trials are not the only form of research. For example, just being interviewed about your condition, by a researcher, can help them really understand your condition, and what you'd like to happen to make things easier for you, this is called Qualitative Research. Other ways you can participate in research is to allow researchers access to your images or tissue, so they can investigate the workings of the human body easily. Finally, looking at anonymised data, including results and hospital admissions can help us understand links and causation which otherwise could go un-noticed.
Working with academic researchers in universities is vital as they have the access to state of the art facilities and equipment that the NHS may not. In addition, they have dedicated time to perform research, unlike hospital-based clinicians who often conduct research alongside their medical obligations. What academic researchers often lack is clinical understanding of conditions, access to patients and their tissues and data, which is why all research active hospitals aim to work collaboratively with academics to work together on their research ideas.
We have many nurses across the different Care Groups. The Senior Research Nurses and Lead Research Nurse can be contacted if you'd like to find out more about our research.
Lead Research Nurse - Cate Laven
Tel: 01904 725125
Email: Catherine.laven@york.nhs.uk
Senior Research Nurse - Kate Howard
Tel: 01904 725125
Email: kate.howard@york.nhs.uk
The Care Groups Kate covers are:
Senior Research Nurse - Laura Griffiths
Tel: 01904 725125
Email: laura.griffiths@york.nhs.uk
The Care Groups Laura covers are:
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1st April 2023 – 31st March 2024
York & Scarborough
50 research studies open to recruitment
3246 patients recruited into clinical trials
