17 August 2022
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved Moderna’s Omicron-containing bivalent booster vaccine in the UK.
09 August 2022
New data from the NIHR shows that the national Patient Recruitment Centres (PRCs) are achieving their study set-up and recruitment ambitions.
29 June 2022
A virtual trial led by researchers in Newcastle upon Tyne has found a new treatment for Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diarrhoea (IBS-D).
23 May 2022
Commercial companies reported 100% satisfaction on the NIHR PRCs on areas such as data quality, study set-up, study delivery and more.
13 April 2022
The RELIEVE IBS-D trial continues to revolutionise research delivery by sharing the study provisional findings directly with participants, within 12 months of the study closing.
25 January 2022
The study is testing new treatments for people with COPD or bronchiectasis and offers people living with chronic lung conditions the opportunity to try a new treatment at home.
06 December 2021
The UK’s first participant has been recruited into a study at NIHR PRC: Newcastle which is investigating a new treatment for cluster headaches.
01 December 2021
The AMGEN study is evaluating the efficacy and safety of erenumab in adults with chronic migraine and medication overuse headache.
26 November 2021
The NIHR Patient Recruitment Centre Newcastle (PRC: Newcastle) is one of five UK sites delivering AERIFY-2, a study looking to investigate a new treatment for people who continue to have COPD symptoms on current medication.
26 November 2021
The win was thanks to successful collaboration between EnteroMed Ltd and the Newcastle PRC who together delivered the RELIEVE IBS-D virtual trial.
12 November 2021
In November 2020 the NIHR launched five Patient Recruitment Centres to enable late phase commercial clinical research to be delivered in the NHS and make it easier for people to take part in studies.
12 November 2021
Recruiting sufficient patients to randomised trials can be a familiar challenge for studies and sites, but this did not prove the case for the team at NIHR PRC: Newcastle who supported and delivered the study to ensure recruitment to time and target for the PEARL study.
20 May 2021
New NIHR survey suggests public perceptions of commercial clinical research are changing.
17 March 2021
NIHR Patient Recruitment Centre: Newcastle, in collaboration with the Newcastle Research Informatics Team at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, has been shortlisted for the Digital Clinical Transformation Award at the HSJ Value Awards 2021 for its successful RELIEVE IBS-D virtual trial.
12 March 2021
NIHR Patient Recruitment Centre: Newcastle is delighted to have been a finalist in the PharmaField Innovation Awards (Team) for the RELIEVE IBS-D virtual trial in partnership with EnteroMed Ltd.
25 November 2020
A collaboration between one of the NIHR’s new National Patient Recruitment Centres and UK sponsor company Enteromed has led to rapid recruitment to one of the first fully virtual interventional clinical trials to be conducted in England.
16 November 2020
Six thousand UK volunteers from Monday (16 November) will be called upon to join another leading phase three Covid-19 vaccine study, as researchers around the world continue to work to secure a range of vaccines to help tackle coronavirus.
12 November 2020
Grant Shapps, Northern Powerhouse Minister, and Secretary of State for Transport, has backed the work carried out at National Patient Recruitment Centres in the North, on the day all five National Institute for Health Research sites officially launch.
16 September 2020
The newly opened NIHR National Patient Recruitment Centre - Newcastle, hosted by Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust, has developed a virtual trial, RELIEVE IBS-D, testing a new treatment for patients with irritable bowel syndrome and diarrhoea.
22 May 2020
The new research centre, part of £7m Government investment, will help people across the North East and North Cumbria to take part in important late-phase commercial clinical research
22 May 2020
NHS patients will benefit from easier access to clinical research opportunities, following a £7 million government investment to launch five new regional Patient Recruitment Centres (PRCs) across England.
