Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement

We want to make sure that patients and the public are involved and engaged in our research work. This is because we believe that it will help us do research which is more relevant, better designed and with clearer outcomes.

What is clinical research?

Clinical research gives us a better understanding of our health and wellbeing so we can:

improve current care
develop new and better treatments and medicines
improve ways to diagnose diseases and conditions
find ways that we can stop people from developing diseases and conditions

Clinical research trials and studies are part of everyday work in the NHS. Most care that patients receive in hospitals and GP practices is the result of research that has taken place.

This includes experimental medicine trials, which look at the causes of disease, how treatments work and whether they are safe, and trials to test the effectiveness of new treatments to see if they are better than what is currently available.

Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any queries or would like to sign up.