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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Our Research
| Name | Job Title | Babi Role |
| Lydia Harris | Head of R&I | Chair |
| Cate Laven | Lead Research Nurse | Deputy Chair |
| Ellis Bramall | Managerial Administrator | Group Administrator |
| Cameron Stockwell | Research Grant Support Officer | Communications |
| Mags Szewczyk | QA | Governance Representative |
| Dominic Smith | Consultant Paediatrician | PI |
| Laura Griffiths | SRN | SRN |
| Bev Waterhouse | Deputy Head of Midwifery | Lead Midwifery Representative |
| Clare Panaser | Research Midwife | Lead Babi Midwife (Scarborough) |
| Kylie Davies | Midwife | Lead Babi Midwife (York) |
| Gillian Chalk | Network Research Champion | York Health Visitor |
| Carly Dodsworth | General Manager | Scarborough Health Visitor |
| Aimee Preston | Service Manager | Scarborough Health Visitor (Alternate) |
| Petra Mullen | Community Midwife | Community Midwife Representative |
| Victoria Clark | Community Midwife | Community Midwife Representative |
| Gillian Chalk | Community Public Health Nurse | York Health Visitor |
| Carly Dodsworth | General Manager of the North Yorkshire 0-19 Service | Scarborough Health Visitor |
| Amy Preston | Scarborough Health Visitor | |
| Holly Henderson | Research Fellow, Bradford Institute for Health Research | BIB Representative |
| Dawn Athorn-Wright | Midwife | Peer Reviewer |
| Philip Truby | Public Health Specialist Practitioner Advanced | Public Health Representative |
| Callum Scofield | Research Business Partner - Innovation, Research & Improvement System (IRIS) NHS Humber & North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) |
Integrated Care System |
| Becky Bibby | ICB Representative | |
| Kate Robinson | BIB | |
| Professor Maria Bryant | Professor of Public Health Nutrition | UoY Representative |
| Dawn Athorn-Wright | Research Midwife | Peer review post |
| Phil Truby | Public Health Officer + Local Authority Research Link | Public Health |
| Kath Roberts | Senior lecturer in Public Health | UoY Representative |
| Bryony Beresford | UoY Representative | |
| Garry Tew | Director of the Institute for Health and Care Improvement, York St John University | York St John Representative |
1st April 2024 – 31st March 2025
York & Scarborough
86 research studies open to recruitment
5051 patients recruited into clinical trials
