21 June 2021
Researchers at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Sunderland have found that fatigue, myalgia, headaches and pain were experienced by 25-30% healthcare workers receiving the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTec COVID vaccine.
18 June 2021
Research couldn’t happen without volunteers, participants and research teams. People like John and Elizabeth Ashworth make research happen. Over the last year we have all gained more appreciation for those involved in COVID-19 research across the globe.
17 June 2021
Helen Chambers is a nurse who looks after patients taking part in cancer research trials at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. In this article, Helen gives us an insight into the work she does and tells us what she finds most rewarding about her role.
14 June 2021
Marjorie Mather, a keen singer and avid reader from North Shields, was the first ever participant to be recruited to the British Heart Foundation SENIOR-RITA trial at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The trial investigates treatment strategies in over-75s presenting with a minor heart attack.
25 May 2021
The cross-boundary hub will see vital mental health research being carried out at the new Foss Park Hospital in York
21 May 2021
Northumbria Healthcare Trust’s North Tyneside General Hospital is one of 27 centres across the UK taking part in the National Institute for Health Research supported Valneva vaccine trial.
20 May 2021
Today (20 May) marks International Clinical Trial’s Day. The day celebrates the anniversary of the first clinical trial by James Lind in 1747 into the causes of scurvy on board the HMS Salisbury.
20 May 2021
Jennifer Smith from South Shields recently took part in the COLO-COHORT study at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust and found the experience quick, easy and straightforward.
17 May 2021
The first COVID-19 vaccine study in the UK recruiting pregnant women has been launched across several National Institute for Health Research sites, including The Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
12 May 2021
On 5 May 2021 the teams of the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre, the NIHR Newcastle Clinical Research Facility and the Great North Children’s Hospital dosed the first patient with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in the UK in the CIFFREO gene therapy trial.
11 May 2021
We are encouraging research staff across the North East and North Cumbria to nominate colleagues who have contributed greatly to clinical research by supporting participants during their research journey. This activity ties in with our annual ‘Be Part of Research’ campaign to coincide with International Clinical Trials Day on 20 May 2021.
10 May 2021
From her care home in North Tyneside, Connie Hammersley has played a small but significant role in efforts to combat Covid-19.
26 April 2021
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)-supported Valneva Phase 2/3 study, will be run at North Tyneside General Hospital in North Shields and the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle, and is open to healthy adults who have not had a previous COVID-19 vaccine.
14 April 2021
Researchers running the Com-Cov study investigating alternating doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and the Pfizer vaccine, have announced a new study in Newcastle now including the Moderna and Novavax vaccines.
08 April 2021
The PRINCIPLE study is investigating several potential COVID-19 treatments which may help people to recover more quickly at home. The study is open to participants from the North East and North Cumbria.
29 March 2021
An award-winning campaign to attract more doctors and dentists to train in the North East and North Cumbria has launched a new interactive ‘roadmap’ to promote careers in research.
15 March 2021
COLO-COHORT, which is funded with a £1.25 million Guts UK Parabola Foundation grant, aims to recruit 10,000 patients undergoing colonoscopy as part of ?the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP?) or due to symptoms.
15 March 2021
More than one million participants have now taken part in COVID-19 research across the UK, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and NHS can proudly announce.
11 March 2021
Today on World Kidney Day we look back on the achievements of Dr Edwin Wong and his Newcastle-based team, who made significant research contributions to a study investigating a new treatment for C3 glomerulopathy, a rare renal condition known as C3G.
11 March 2021
Thursday 11 March 2021 marks one year since the World Health Organisation declared a global pandemic in response to COVID-19. For this occasion we asked some of the NIHR 70@70 Senior Nurse Research Leaders from the North East and North Cumbria to reflect on their experience of the pandemic one year on.
10 March 2021
NHS researchers across the North East and North Cumbria are working together to develop more vaccines for COVID-19. It is possible that vaccines will work differently for different groups of people and we therefore need people of all ages, communities, ethnicities and backgrounds to participate in vaccine research.
09 March 2021
The Participant in Research Experience Survey (PRES) got off to a flying start in January in both the quality and quantity of survey responses collected across the North East and North Cumbria. 2021 continues to be a successful year for PRES as we hear about the positive experiences of study teams using the survey.
04 March 2021
PRINCIPLE is the UK’s largest national priority platform trial evaluating Covid-19 treatments that can be taken at home to speed-up recovery and prevent hospital admission.
03 March 2021
For many of us restarting research is only in relation to recruitment and face to face visits with study patients.
01 March 2021
The North East and North Cumbria has recruited a significant number of participants to the Multi-centre EuRopean study of MAjor Infectious Disease Syndromes: Acute Respiratory Infections in Adults (MERMAIDS-ARI) study.