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 currently recruiting for five active trials, but two are particularly popular. One is a health questionnaire, looking at activity and lifestyle before a stroke or TIA, compared to 6 months later. The other is a blood trial lasting 10 years, looking at DNA in the blood to see if there are any "clues" there to indicate stroke likelihood.
We are in the process of setting up new trials which will provide us with a full and varied portfolio covering the Stroke speciality. One of these trials is looking at the effects of starting blodd thinning anticoagulants in people who have survived a brain haemorrhage and have an irregular heart beat (known as atrial fibrillation). We also have an exciting new study coming soon which is looking to develop a computerized algorithm to assist in the planning of each patient's care pathway. It will aim to predict stroke outcomes by comparing a large number of scan images from patients who have suffered an ischemic stroke.
If you are interested in finding out more about the stroke research team or want to get in touch regarding using our team in your research please get in touch with our Research Delivery Facilitator, Laura Howe.
| Name, Job Title | Telephone Number | |
| Pearly Clark Brown, Research Nurse | pearl.clarkbrown@york.nhs.uk | 01904 72 5487 |
| Peter Inns, Research Nurse | peter.inns@york.nhs.uk | 01904 72 5487 |
| Chloe Stokes, Clinical Trials Assistant | chloe.stokes@York.nhs.uk | 01904 72 5487 |
| Richard Furnival, Research Delivery Facilitator | richard.furinval@york.nhs.uk | 01904 72 5121 |
| Paula Strider, Senior Research Nurse | paula.strider@York.nhs.uk | 01904 72 5125 |
1st April 2016 to 31st March 2017
York and Scarborough
147 research studies open to recruitment
4588 patients recruited into clinical trials
