Research Studies
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South Gloucestershire Medical Research Unit
PRINCIPLE
West Walk Surgery is supporting vital COVID 19 research. As part of this, we are helping to carry out a national priority research study.
Patients registered at West Walk Surgery, who have symptoms of possible Covid-19 (review eligibility criteria here), can join this research.
Chronic Cough
Can a new medication help people with a longstanding cough?
If you have had a cough for more than a year, which is ‘unexplained’ by your doctor, or persists despite treatments, you may be interested to hear more about a study looking at a new treatment for longstanding cough.
We are also looking for people who have had a cough for more than 8 weeks but less than 14 months for a separate study
Status
Open to recruitment
Vesalius
A medication hoping to reduce cardiovascular events in people at high risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Sponsor
Amgen
Status
Open to recruitment
Trioptimize
A real-world study on patients’ health related quality of life when taking a combined inhaler for COPD.
Sponsor
Chiesi
Status
Open to recruitment
Immune Defence Study
Does Vicks First Defence nasal spray, saline nasal spray, and/or supporting physical activity and stress management reduce the duration of respiratory tract infections compared to usual care?
Sponsor
University of Southampton
Status
Open to recruitment
Primus
A project to develop and validate a diagnostic and decision-making aid for GPs to better treat men with urinary symptoms.
Sponsor
Cardiff University
Status
Open to recruitment
SuMMit-D
Can brief, tailored support messages, delivered to people with type 2 diabetes, help them with taking medication and managing their condition?
Sponsor
University of Oxford
Status
Opening soon
IMPPP
Can practice pharmacist medication reviews for patients on many medications be made even more effective?
Sponsor
University of Bristol
Status
Open to recruitment
Interact
How effective is a therapist-led CBT programme with online CBT materials for people suffering with depression?
Sponsor
University of Bristol
Status
Open to recruitment
Reduce
Is an online intervention to support patients and practitioners effective in supporting the reduction of long-term antidepressant medication for people with depression?
Sponsor
University of Bath
Status
Open to recruitment
Self-processing biases in antidepressant treatment
Investigating factors that affect how antidepressants work
Sponsor
University of Bath
Status
Open to recruitment
ERICA
Do electronic Risk Assessment Tools for cancer improve diagnosis and patient experience of care?
Sponsor
Exeter University
Status
Opening soon
Stream
Can a novel intervention improve the quality of life of older people, who may be at risk of malnutrition, and reduce infections?
Sponsor
University of Oxford
Status
Opening soon
Craft
Assessing patient acceptability and clinical effectiveness of a test for colorectal cancer diagnosis.
Sponsor
Swansea University
Status
Opening soon
SAFA
Is Spirinolactone an effective treatment for women with acne?
Sponsor
University of Southampton
Status
Not recruiting – in follow-up
Supportback2
Supporting self-management of low back pain with an internet intervention in primary care
Sponsor
University of Southampton
Status
Not recruiting – in follow-up
Attack
Does daily aspirin reduce things like heart attacks in people with Chronic Kidney Disease?
Sponsor
Universtiy of Southampton
Status
Not recruiting – in follow-up
Eczema Care Online (ECO) Study
Looking at online toolkits to help parents/carers of children with eczema and young people with eczema manage eczema more effectively.
Sponsor
University of Southampton
Status
Not recruiting – in follow-up
IQVIA
An observational study of people using certain inhalers for their COPD.
Sponsor
GlaxoSmithKline
Status
Not recruiting – in follow-up
Decide
A Trial to Evaluate the Comparative Effectiveness Between Dapagliflozin and Standard of Care in Type 2 Diabetes Patients.
Sponsor
University of Liverpool
Status
Not recruiting – in follow-up
Relieve
A trial to see if Enterosgel can help people who have Irritable Bowel Syndrome with diarrhoea.
Sponsor
Enteromed Ltd
Status
Not recruiting – in follow-up
In addition to these studies either open or recently open, we have been actively involved with studies covering a range of other conditions over the years, including:
- GSK Asthma. A clinical study to evaluate the effect of using a sensor on inhalers to help with adherence when people have poorly controlled asthma.
- Hyvet2. Whether the treatment of White Coat Hypertension in the elderly is feasible and beneficial,
- A study investigating symptoms which might best predict lung and bowel cancer
- Flu vaccine safety studies for adults and children
- A COPD inhaler head to head trial
- An audit of leg ulcer management
- The use of an intestinal adsorbant (Enterosgel) in acute diarrhoeal illness – see recent BMJ Open Gastroenterology paper
- Treatment of children with ‘at risk’ conditions who develop influenza
- The effectiveness of bath emollients in children with eczema
- Whether the use of emollients in the first year of life reduces the chance of developing eczema
- Pain relieving ear drops in childhood ear infections
- The role of increasing inhaled steroid treatment in adults with asthma
- Improving Hepatitis C screening in the local community
- The role of aspirin and H pylori in acute gastrointestinal bleeding
- Antidepressant use in mild depression
- How home blood pressure monitoring may be helpful for managing patients with hypertension
- Investigating how best to assess patients with possible dementia in primary care
- Exploring the role of an online support programme for children with appearance altering conditions
- Optimise – Optimising the treatment of mild high blood pressure in the Elderly.
- Barack D – A trial to see if Spironolactone is helpful in people with early kidney disease.
- Geko – A study designed to examine the effects on circulation of a new device (GEKO) on people with Venous Leg ulcers.
- Antler – A study looking to see if long term use of antidepressants can reduce relapse when people feel well enough to stop taking them.
- Test – What is the clinical and cost-effectiveness of routine food allergy testing plus advice compared to current standard practice for the management of eczema in children?
- Rapid-Test – A study to see if ‘point-of-care’ testing in patients presenting with respiratory infections like coughs, colds and flu affects patient management in primary care.
- Anxiety in Primary Care – A qualitative study of anxiety in primary care.
- Fluenz – Collecting information on the safety of intranasal ‘flu vaccine Fluenz Tetra in children and adolescents.
- Artic – The potential benefits of antibiotics in children with a lower respiratory tract infection.
- Clasp – A study to see if having access to a new supportive website can help people who have had cancer.
- Psoreal – The effectiveness of topical medicine in managing patients with psoriasis.
- Triumph – Can we help men with urinary symptoms using non-pharmacological and non-surgical interventions?
We contribute to the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD).
Information in patient records is important for medical research to develop new treatments and test the safety of medicines. This practice supports medical research by sending some of this information from patient records to CPRD.
CPRD is a government organisation that provides anonymised patient data for research to improve patient and public health. You cannot be identified from the information sent to CPRD. If you do not want anonymised information from your patient record to be used in research you can opt out by speaking to one of our Doctors.
For more information about how your data is used please visit CPRD.
Please see information provided by the NHS Health Research Authority on how patient information is used in research.