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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For Researchers
It is important to be clear about the distinction between research and other types of investigative projects such as audit or service evaluation project. Please follow the below links to determine what kind of project you are undertaking.
What kind of project am I doing
Guidance on data analysis and drawing conclusions is also available. Refer to R&D/G08 This may help investigators to determine what sort of project they are undertaking.
The R&D Unit can only advise on studies classified as research studies.
For audit and service evaluation studies please contact the Clinical Effectiveness Team, yhs-tr.ClinicalEffectivenessTeam@nhs.net
NOTE: ALL investigative projects must be registered in the Trust through the R&D Unit and ALL Clinical Audits & Local Service Evaluations must be registered with the Clinical Effectiveness Team.
1st April 2022 to 31st March 2023
York and Scarborough
125 research studies open to recruitment
3882 patients recruited into clinical trials
