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Building Blocks 2: Results And Reflections

Building Blocks 2: Results And Reflections

Posted on 16 February 2021 by Michael Robling

This month we published the results of our Building Blocks 2 (BB:2-6) study which has evaluated the longer-term impact of the specialist home-visiting programme, the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP). We […]

Recruitment for Critical Care Trials – What Strategies Work Best? Findings From an Intercalated Medical Student Project

Recruitment for Critical Care Trials – What Strategies Work Best? Findings From an Intercalated Medical Student Project

Posted on 3 February 2021 by Victoria Shepherd

Timia Raven-Gregg writes:  Following my fourth year at medical school, I decided that I wanted to gain a better understanding of clinical research and have the opportunity to undertake a research […]

World AIDS Day 2020: Bringing an End to HIV

World AIDS Day 2020: Bringing an End to HIV

Posted on 1 December 2020 by Richard Haggerty

Background On December 1st every year we show our support for World AIDS Day. An opportunity for worldwide unity in the fight against HIV. It allows each of us and our organisations to show support for those living […]

CENTRIC Training

CENTRIC Training

Posted on 20 November 2020 by Kim Munnery

The CENTRIC study is funded by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). Background The CENTRIC study is about the development of a co-produced training curriculum for researchers who access and process […]

RDCS Funding Application Virtual Workshops 2020

RDCS Funding Application Virtual Workshops 2020

Posted on 11 November 2020 by Philip Pallmann

Our first virtual event On Monday, 5th October the Research Design and Conduct Service (RDCS) South East Wales hosted its first ever virtual funding application workshop. In previous years, the RDCS […]

World Sepsis Day 2020: BATCH, PRONTO And Antimicrobial Resistance

World Sepsis Day 2020: BATCH, PRONTO And Antimicrobial Resistance

Posted on 11 September 2020 by Kerry Hood

Sepsis and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)? Today on World Sepsis Day (13th September 2020), as both members of the public and health professionals alike, we can all learn more about how […]

Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week: Our Research

Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week: Our Research

Posted on 3 September 2020 by Timothy Pickles

Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Week takes place on 7-11 September 2020 and is organised by the National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS). The Centre for Trials Research is […]

Spotlight on: The PATHOS Study

Spotlight on: The PATHOS Study

Posted on 5 August 2020 by Richard Haggerty

PATHOS is a Phase III trial of risk-stratified, reduced intensity adjuvant treatment in patients undergoing transoral surgery for human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive oropharyngeal cancer. The aim of the study is to […]

Visual Timeline Interviews Over The Telephone: Findings From The STAR Family Study

Visual Timeline Interviews Over The Telephone: Findings From The STAR Family Study

Posted on 8 July 2020 by Bethan Pell

Background My passion and enthusiasm lies in relevant and impactful public health and qualitative research. Leaving university with a degree in Psychology, I worked closely with vulnerable groups in various […]

Our PrEP Research And What It Means To Wales (And Beyond)

Our PrEP Research And What It Means To Wales (And Beyond)

Posted on 4 July 2020 by Kerry Hood

Background A few days ago, the Welsh Cabinet Secretary for Health, Vaughan Gething, announced that the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (known as PrEP) to prevent HIV would become routine in […]