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
We are a multi-skilled research team supporting the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network's (CRN) portfolio of research studies. The team is focused on the facilitation of research trials within Scarborough, Bridlington and Malton Hospitals, and encouraging the local primary care service to be research active.
We offer a wide variety of studies to our patient populations in secondary care and have strong relationships with our on-site clinical staff at our local hospitals. Over the years we have strengthened our research in a number of key areas including Dermatology, Rheumatology. Orthopaedics, Stroke, Surgery, Palliative Care, Maternity, Neurology, Gastroenterology, Anaesthetics and Paediatric services.
Our focus in these areas has led to us generating excellent links with some of the country's biggest national Universities and Research Organisations to deliver both Observational studies and more complex Drug studies (Clinical Trial of an Investigational Medicinal Product, CTIMP).
Please click here to be taken to the UK Clinical Trials Gateway where you can search for research studies that are currently being undertaken by our team.
Our Team is based at our Scarborough General Hospital and is made up of two multi-skilled NIHR CRN Research Nurses and a Clinical Trials Assistant. We are supported by a NIHR CRN Senior Research Nurse and our research studies are set up with the assistance of a Research Delivery Facilitator from the Research and Development team.
Each member of the team has research expertise in different disease areas. This enables the team to offer a wide portfolio of research opportunities to patients. All members of our team are trained to national standards of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and do undertake further study specific training when required.
| Name, Job Title | Telephone Number | |
| Simon Dyer, Senior Research Nurse | simon.dyer@york.nhs.uk | 01723 34 2384 |
| Emma Temlett, Research Nurse | emma.temlett@york.nhs.uk | 01723 34 2384 |
| Kerry Elliott, Research Nurse | kerry.elliott@york.nhs.uk | 01723 34 2384 |
| Rosie Furness, Clinical Trials Assistant | rosie.furness@york.nhs.uk | 01723 34 2384 |
| Lisa Carr, Research Delivery Facilitator | research.governance@york.nhs.uk | 01904 72 5122 |
| Name, Job Title |
| Dr Ben Chandler, Consultant Anaesthetist and Lead - Anaesthetics and Critical Care |
| Dr Edward Jones, Consultant in Geriatric Medicine - Parkinsonism |
| Dr Sara Othman, Consultant Gastroenterologist - Gastroenterology |
| Dr Julia Stainforth, Consultant Dermatologist, Clinical Lead - Dermatology |
| Dr Calum Lyon, Consultant Dermatologist and Honorary Consultant & Lecturer at the University of Manchester |
| Dr Al-Saffar, Consultant Rheumatologist - Rheumatology |
| Dr Anna Moverly, Consultant Rheumatologist - Rheumatology |
| Dr Miriam Johnson, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Co Speciality Palliative Care Group Lead, CRN - Palliative Medicine |
| Dr Mark Andrews, Orthopaedic Surgeon - Orthopaedics |
| Dr Victoria Hemming, Consultant - Paediatrics |
| Dr Udupa Venkatesh, Consultant - Paediatrics |
St Catherine's Hospice, collaborator
Arthritis Research UK, Information on symptoms, treatments and research relating to arthritis conditions
British Society of Rheumatology Biologics Register - Rheumatoid Arthritis; Information about the register that seeks to assess the long-term safety of biologic treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis
British Society of Rheumatology Biologics Register - Ankylosing Spondylitis; Information about the register that seeks to assess the long-term safety of biologic treatments for Ankylosing Spondylitis
British Society of Dermatologists Biologic Intervention Register; Information about the register that seeks to assess the long-term safety of biologic treatments for psoriasis
National Institute of Health Research; Information about Research, the Clinical Research Networks, Funding and Support and much more
1st April 2016 to 31st March 2017
York and Scarborough
147 research studies open to recruitment
4588 patients recruited into clinical trials
