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.
About Us
| Member of the Team | Responsibilities | Contact Details |
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Lydia Harris Head of R&D |
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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Sarah Sheath Unit Administrator |
Main point of contact and administrative support for R&D office Arrangement of honorary contracts, letters of access and research passports SOPs Invoices |
01904 726996 |
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Angela Jackson Admin Coordinator |
PA to Head of R&D Management of all matters related to EDGE Archiving Amendments R&D Group |
01904 725128 |
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Deborah Phillips Research Adviser |
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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Mags Szewczyk Research QA Manager |
Management of all matters related to oversight and maintenance of Quality Management Systems (QMS) for research, including monitoring and auditing of clinical research projects, process audits and QA oversight of support services for research |
01904 725124 |
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Lisa Carr Research Delivery Facilitator |
Management of all matters related to research within the following directorates: Anaesthetics Cardiology Dentistry Dermatology Generic Team - Scarborough Generic Team - York Microbiology Orthopaedics Palliative Care Pharmacy Physiotherapy Renal Respiratory Rheumatology |
01904 725122 |
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Richard Furnival Research Delivery Facilitator |
Management of all matters related to research within the following directorates: Diabetes Elderly Medicine Emergency Medicine ENT Gastro & Hepatology Haematology - York Neurology Obs & Gynae Occupational Health/Staff Studies Occupational Therapy Oncology - York Ophthalmology Paediatrics Sexual Health Stroke Urology |
01904 725121 |
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Paula Strider Cate Laven Laura Griffiths Senior Research Nurses |
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. |
01904 725125 |
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Tom Szczerbicki Trial Manager - MATE Study |
Management and all matters relating to the MATE study |
01904 721893 |
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Mia Porteous Trial Manager - FASBAT Study |
Management and all matters relating to the FASBAT study |
01904 725129 |
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Monica Haritakis Trial Manager - FIT Study |
Management and all matters relating to the FAST TRACK (FIT) study. |
01904 725459 |
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Greg Forshaw Study Co-ordinator |
Study co-ordinator for Trust Sponsored studies |
01904 72 6954 |
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Laura Burgess BEAP Administrative Co-ordinator |
Management and all matters relating to the BEAP study |
01904 72 6163 |
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Mark Aldous Clerical Officer - BEAP study |
01904 72 6163 |
1st April 2016 to 31st March 2017
York and Scarborough
147 research studies open to recruitment
4588 patients recruited into clinical trials
