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
We have a portfolio of palliative research that is largely lead by Professor Miriam Johnson. Professor Johnson's research focuses on cancer, life limiting illness and the management of related symptoms. Of particular interest are interventions concerning breathlessness and Professor Johnson has generated and delivered a number of studies relating to this. Professor Johnson has experience of writing and delivering both simple observation studies and national multi-centre randomised control trials of both drugs and complex non-pharmaceutical interventions within the field of palliative medicine. We also conduct research projects that are Nurse led by those that have an active interest in palliative care. Our research benefits from close relations with both Hull York Medical School (HYMS) and Saint Catherine's Hospice.
Palliative care research is a growing area across the Yorkshire & Humber with three Professors of Palliative Medicine (Miriam Johnson and Fliss Murtagh at HYMS, and Mike Bennett at Leeds) and two new Senior Lecturers in Palliative Medicine at Sheffield (Paul Taylor and Catriona Mayland). The York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust hospitals are therefore well placed to contribute to portfolio studies led by Yorkshire and Humber clinical academics.
Please click here to be taken to the NIHR Be Part of Research website where you can search for research studies that are currently being undertaken in our Speciality at our Trust.
We have dedicated National Institute of Health Research (NIHR), Clinical Research Network (CRN) funded Research Nurses and Clinical Trials Assistants within York and Scarborough Hospitals working on Palliative research. Some of these members of staff also regularly visit Saint Catherine's Hospice to see research participants. Each member of the research team are trained to national standards of Good Clinical Practice (GCP). A number of Clinical Nurse Specialists in our Hospitals are also involved with delivering our research.
| Name, Job Title | Telephone Number | |
| Janine Mallinson, Research Nurse | janine.mallinson@york.nhs.uk | 01723 34 6193 |
| Kerry Elliott, Research Nurse | kerry.elliott@york.nhs.uk | 01723 34 2384 |
| Lisa Carr-Knott, Research Delivery Facilitator | research.governance@york.nhs.uk | 01904 72 5122 |
| Name, Job Title |
| Professor Miriam Johnson, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Research Lead, Co Speciality Palliative Care Group Lead, CRN |
| Dr Anne Garry, Consultant in Palliative Medicine |
| Kathryn Sartain, Lead Nurse for End of Life Care |
1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021
York and Scarborough
100 research studies open to recruitment
4760 patients recruited into clinical trials
