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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Research Careers
- General Medical Council
The scheme is open to any health and care professional in the United Kingdom, including England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. They must be willing to make a significant contribution to the conduct and delivery of a study at a local level over a period of six months.
To register as an Associate PI and identify research projects you may wish to help lead on please register through the dedicated NIHR website. Here you will find a wealth of resources to support you on your journey, for additional support and guidance, the Trust has several API Scheme Champions who can support you, please contract the R&I Team directly for further advice.
The Associate PI Scheme have create a dedicated toolkit to help support you through your research journey.
These resources can be found on the dedicated toolkit website.
The API Scheme has a dedicated dashboard to allow you to identify projects you may wish to be a part of. You can access this project directly through the Public Associate Principal Investigator Scheme Dashboard.
Following completion of your Associate PI Scheme you can gain access to the API Scheme Alumni Area which is populated with a wealth of information for you to take your next steps in research and become a Principle Investigator. You will require a free NIHR Learn account to access this resource and additional materials included within the area.
R&I have several funding schemes which open up throughout the year to pump prime small research projects which can create the foundations of a larger research project in the future. These funding calls will be disseminated via e-mail and will also be announced via our internal funding page.
1st April 2024 – 31st March 2025
York & Scarborough
86 research studies open to recruitment
5051 patients recruited into clinical trials
