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
| Member of the Team | Responsibilities | Contact Details |
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Head of R&D Lydia Harris |
Clinical Research Strategy Performance Management of Research Contracts and Finance Development our hospital's research profile and capacity to conduct research Patient and Public Involvement |
01904 726606 |
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Unit Administrator Sarah Sheath |
Main point of contact and administrative support for R&D office. Lead Research Nurse Administration. Arrangement of honorary contracts, letters of access and research passports SOP Controller Study invoicing Website management |
01904 726996 |
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Admin Coordinator Angela Jackson |
PA to Head of R&D Management of all matters related to EDGE Named Archivist Amendments Reports R&D Group organisation Assisting RDFs with Non-Portfolio, Academic & Trust Sponsored Studies |
01904 725128 |
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Research Adviser Deborah Phillips |
Preparation and management of all matters related to York Hospital Sponsorship applications and commercial research Research Governance Risk assessment of York Sponsored CTIMPs Data Protection Independent Scientific Review Research Misconduct |
01904 725123 |
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Research Quality Assurance Manager Mags Szewczyk |
Quality Management Systems: R&D SOPs, Protocol/GCP breaches, DATIX, Corrective & Preventative Action (CAPA), Safety reporting, Regulatory Inspections Quality Assurance & Annual schedule. Quality Control / Risk Assessment & Monitoring Plans. Research QA training/guidance/SOP training records (Q-Pulse). Support Services (monthly QA review meetings). External vendors for research. Laboratory research management. Radiology research management. Quarterly QA meetings. |
01904 725124 |
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Research Delivery Facilitator Lisa Carr-Knott |
Specialities: Emergency Dept, Elderly Medicine, Stroke, Cardiology, Respiratory, Renal, Gastro, Hepatology, Palliative Care, CF, Parkinsons, Theatre, Anaesthetics, Critical Care, ICU, General Surgery, Urology, Breast Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Oral & Dental, ENT Key duties: Capacity and Capability; study set up and HRA guidance, collaboration, co-ordination and monthly meetings with support departments, EOIs and SEVs, link to the CRN; portfolio and study support, EDGE Administrator, portfolio meetings, amendment processing (holiday cover only), Audit Assessment Tool, Study Intensity Tool |
01904 725122 |
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Research Delivery Facilitator Richard Furnival |
Specialities: Oncology, Haematology, Endoscopy, Microbiology, Lab Medicine, Pharmacy, Radiology, Rheumatology, Dermatology, Neurology, Endocrine, MSK, Orthopaedic, AHPs, Ophthalmology, Diabetes, Psychological Medicine, Patient Saftey Key duties: Capacity and Capability; study set up and HRA guidance, collaboration, co-ordination and monthly meetings with support departments, EOIs and SEVs, link to the CRN; portfolio and study support, EDGE Administrator, portfolio meetings, amendment processing (holiday cover only), Intellectual Property Reviewer, Audit Assessment Tool, Study Intensity Tool |
01904 725121 |
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Research & Development Administrator Eleanor Webster |
Assists Lisa Carr-Knott and Richard Furnival in the Research Delivery Team, and also assists Mags Szewczyk with Quality Assurance. |
01904 726163 |
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Research Grant Development Officer Lisa Ballantine |
The Grant Development Officer supports research throughout the funding application-cycle, offering advice at the ideas stage, helping with potential collaborations, signpost funding calls and facilitate grant submission. They work very closely with academic leaders at the University of York and York St John University. A competitive research bid requires a relevant research question, a strong cross-disciplinary research team and good Grantsmanship. To achieve this, the officers can help you with:
More experienced people might only require advice on one element of their application whilst inexperienced people may seek a wraparound support. This may include support with advice on research questions, identification of most appropriate funders, building of your research team and Grantsmanship. |
07747 763555 01904 722481 |
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Marthe Ludtmann Commercial Research Manager |
07747 763555 |
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Lead Research Nurse Cate Laven |
01904 724641 |
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Senior Research Nurses Laura Griffiths Kate Howard |
The Senior Research Nurses are responsible for the line management, training and supervision of research staff across a number of clinical areas in the Trust. The role is to ensure that staff are managed and support in the workplace and are appropriately trained to evidence they are competent to carry out their research work. The aim is to achieve high quality research which is patient focussed ensuring the safety of patients within clinical trials and contributing to high quality data. Research staff manage both NIHR portfolio and non-portfolio studies with a variety of interventional and non-interventional studies to achieve a balanced portfolio across the Trust and the goal is to have a flexible workforce who are able to work on projects across a number of clinical specialities where the need arises. There are currently research teams in the majority of the clinical areas across our Trust and welcome approaches from all disciplines. Laura Griffiths covers: Care Groups 1, 4 & 6 Kate Howard covers: Care Groups 2, 3 & 5 |
01904 725125 |
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Clinical Trials Manager - MATE Study Tom Szczerbicki |
Management of Trust Sponsored single and multi-site studies including: applications for Ethics, HRA, MHRA approval, amendments to Trust Sponsored studies, Data Management, Finance Management, Contract reviews, Data Analysis, Audits & Monitoring, Publications. |
01904 721893 |
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Clinical Trials Manager - FASBAT Study Mia Porteous |
Management of Trust Sponsored single and multi-site studies including: applications for Ethics, HRA, MHRA approval, amendments to Trust Sponsored studies, Data Management, Finance Management, Contract reviews, Data Analysis, Audits & Monitoring, Publications. |
01904 725129 |
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Clinical Trials Manager - FIT Study Monica Haritakis |
Management of Trust Sponsored single and multi-site studies including: applications for Ethics, HRA, MHRA approval, amendments to Trust Sponsored studies, Data Management, Finance Management, Contract reviews, Data Analysis, Audits & Monitoring, Publications. |
01904 725459 |
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Study Co-ordinator Greg Forshaw |
Administrative support for Trust Sponsored single and multi-site studies including: applications for Ethics, HRA, MHRA approval, amendments to Trust Sponsored studies, Data Management, Finance Management, Contract reviews, Data Analysis, Audits & Monitoring, Publications. Radiology support for research (Amendments, Radiology Research spreadsheet & study folders). |
01904 72 6954 |
1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021
York and Scarborough
100 research studies open to recruitment
4760 patients recruited into clinical trials
