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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The Laboratory Medicine department not only offers an excellent support service to a large number of trials throughout the Trust but we also host a number of Laboratory-led studies that look to improve the detection and accuracy of laboratory diagnostics.
As well as supporting large scale bio-bank studies in which samples are stored for future use to help better understand conditions and support the development of future research studies. Including the University of York's York Tissue Bank.
Our Laboratory Medicine disciplines within the Trust:
| Biochemistry | Genetics | Haematology | Histology |
| Immunology | Microbiology | Point-of-care | Pathology |
If you are interested in finding out more about research in this area, please contact: yhs-tr.research.governance@nhs.net
1st April 2023 – 31st March 2024
York & Scarborough
50 research studies open to recruitment
3246 patients recruited into clinical trials
