Taking part in mental health research: Gulliver’s story
18 May 2023
Aylesbury's Gulliver Waite took part in the PAX-D trial for people with treatment -resistant depression.
18 May 2023
Aylesbury's Gulliver Waite took part in the PAX-D trial for people with treatment -resistant depression.
18 May 2023
Milton Keynes' Sally Fennmore took part in the PROFHER-2 study which looks into the most effective ways to treat adults with severe arm fractures.
18 May 2023
Reading's Gordon Reynolds took part in the MACRO study which looks into treatment options for severe sinus disease.
18 May 2023
Oxford's David Martin is taking part in the PRIME-RT which provides immunotherapy to participants diagnosed with bowel cancer.
04 April 2023
Buckinghamshire's Nigel Edward-Few is taking part in the Add-Aspirin trial following a diagnosis of bowel cancer.
24 March 2023
Buckinghamshire's Anna Sutherland is taking part in the Add-Aspirin trial since 2021 following a diagnosis of bowel cancer.
03 March 2023
Buckinghamshire's Stephen Cossins is taking part in the University of Leeds’ FLAIR trial into drugs to treat chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).
02 March 2023
Buckinghamshire's Timothy Stickland took part in the Myeloma XI trial into drug treatments for newly diagnosed myeloma.
26 July 2022
Oxfordshire’s Sally Bromley is taking part in a study into the development of Parkinson’s Disease after being diagnosed in 2008.
04 July 2022
Buckinghamshire's Ian Desborough is taking part in a cancer drugs trial after being diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) in 2017.
04 July 2022
Oxfordshire's Penny Marsh took part in an Oxford dementia study after seeing her mum with the disease
04 July 2022
Berkshire's Tracy McWalter received Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and a blood pressure drugas part of a University of Oxford study into panic attacks.
25 February 2022
Oxfordshire’s Andrew Nixey took antiviral drug molnupiravir as part of a University of Oxford trial after testing positive for COVID-19.
08 June 2021
Oxfordshire’s Janice Rowan took asthma drug budesonide through an inhaler as part of an NHS trial after testing positive for COVID-19.
08 June 2021
Shaun Rowlands took three drugs as part of a trial into COVID-19 treatments during two months in Reading’s Royal Berkshire Hospital.
15 December 2020
Louise Mew, a surgical research nurse at Milton Keynes University Hospital (MKUH), speaks about how her role has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
02 December 2020
Katherine Millbank, who spent two weeks in intensive care with COVID-19, took part in a trial of commonly used steroid dexamethasone to help her recover from the virus.
20 November 2020
Buckinghamshire’s Samantha Greig, who had to give up her dreams of a family and job due to a painful womb condition, is taking part in NHS research to help others.
20 November 2020
Oxford great grandfather Clive Robinson, who has lung disease, took part in a study aimed at keeping at-risk people with COVID-19 symptoms out of hospital.
14 August 2020
Kelly Fricker is the lead research nurse at The Boathouse Surgery in Pangbourne, Reading.
12 August 2020
Research midwife Danielle Thornton is working on studies into how COVID-19 affects pregnancy and whether genetics can influence how people react to the virus.
30 June 2020
Geraldine Hambrook is a research nurse in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Aylesbury’s Stoke Mandeville Hospital, who works on studies into topics including life-threatening infections and emergency surgery. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, she has focused on studies into collecting data from patients to understand the virus.
25 June 2020
Dr Raha West is an anaesthetist and principal investigator for the RECOVERY study into COVID-19 treatments at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Here she reflects on the role of research during the pandemic.
08 June 2020
An Oxford man who spent his 60th birthday in hospital with COVID-19 is taking part in research into treating and understanding the virus.
12 December 2019
A Milton Keynes mum is volunteering her infant daughter for an NHS trial to try to prevent her from getting type 1 diabetes like her older sister.