HHTU News Roundup
2024 has got off to a busy start. Here is a roundup of this months news.
STARLIT-2 open to recruitment!
Congratulations to the STARLIT team on their recent achievement – STARLIT-2 first site is now open to recruitment! STARLIT is a 3-stage programme that aims to develop ways to diagnose adrenal insufficiency by measuring cortisol in saliva samples which will lead to needle-free testing. The second study within STARLIT will be comparing the blood sample test to the needle-free test in healthy adults and children. It has been a long process, but the hard work in these initial stages has paid off and the focus now shifts to the next stage in the study life cycle.
MOI-A Study open to recruitment!
There was more success for our studies with the MOI-A Study also opening to recruitment! This study is working with sites in both the UK and Italy who will be looking at whether the use of the drug losartan will reduce bone turnover in older adolescents and adults with Osteogenesis imperfecta, bone fragility.
Sheffield Children’s NHS Hospital Foundation Trust and Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital successfully obtained sponsor Greenlight and have started to identify and shortlist the participants. The 3rd site in the UK; Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will be open to recruit shortly. The Italian sites will open later this year.
ProACTIVE WP-2A has its first recruit
Proactive is a study made up of several work packages which are examining the clinical and cost effectiveness of Alcohol Care Teams to inform the future commissioning of these services.
Work Package 2a recently opened and successfully recruited it’s first patient! The purpose of this work package is to assess the effectiveness of alcohol care teams by comparing the outcomes of people with alcohol-related problems who attended hospitals with alcohol care teams to those who attended hospitals with no alcohol care team. Research assistants are going into 6 different hospitals across the country where they will carry out questionnaires with patients that have alcohol related problems. This is a great first step for this study and with more research assistants to hire and sites to open, this number is the first step to success!!
Quality Assurance Manager started
Our much awaited and much needed Quality Assurance Manager started after the Christmas break! Kerryann has joined as from the Molecular Imaging Research Centre at Hull University Teaching Hospitals where she was a Quality Control Manager. She has the big job of consolidating all the processes that have been put in place since the formation of the trials unit including all our SOPs and training. We are all really pleased to have her in our team even though I am sure we will all have a whole load of SOPs to read shortly!! Welcome Kerryann.
Our SDM accepted onto Building Brilliant Leaders programme
Our Senior Data Manager Sarah Sumpter was accepted onto the University’s Building Brilliant Leaders Programme. This programme is designed to develop leaders who understand their impact on their people’s wellbeing, who actively create an inclusive culture and who can work with people as individuals to bring out the best in everyone. At the end of January Sarah and John Turgoose (her line manager) attended the launch event at the University. At this event the leaders from across the University and their sponsors gathered to share their hopes and ambitions for the project, listened to members of our ULT panel as well as talks from Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kevin Kerrigan and Chief People Officer, Sarah Wilson.
We wish Sarah the best of luck with the program!
