What we do
The research and development team works across the whole of the Trust. We work closely with clinical teams and service users and offer a variety of local, national and international research studies and opportunities.
Why research is so important
Benefits
- Clinical trials aim to improve the health and quality of life for service users and the population.
- Without clinical trials there is a risk that treatments don’t work or could be harmful to service users.
- Research can help you can learn more about your condition and how to manage it.
- The NHS can get access to new treatments that are only available in trials.
- You can help support medical science and increase our knowledge of conditions and treatments.
What are clinical trials?
- Clinical trials are research studies that involve people.
- They test how well particular treatments work and whether they are safe
- They could be looking at medicines, equipment or therapeutic interventions
- Clinical trials are designed to answer the following main questions:
- Does a treatment work?
- Does it work better than other treatments?
- Does it have side effects?
Not all clinical trials involve drugs or treatments. They can also look at the care you receive and could involve:
- Interviews
- Questionnaires
- Researchers observing interactions with your care team
- Advising a research team
- Participating as a healthy volunteer
- Taking a blood or tissue sample
Share your story
If you’ve been involved in a clinical research trial and would like to share your story, we’d love to hear from you.
Please contact us on 01642 283501 or email [email protected]
Helping you conduct research
The research and development team are able to help if you’re interested in conducting your own research. We work in partnership with a number of organisations to widen research opportunities for our service users.
We’re currently working with Emergence, a national service user led organisation, with the aim of setting up a research project designed and led by people with experience of personality disorder.
We work closely with a number of university partners to develop new research studies, open research studies Trust-wide for recruitment and share results from research where TEWV patients and staff have taken part.
We’re a partner organisation of NIHR North East and North Cumbria.
