We provide high quality healthcare services primarily to the residents of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen, which have a combined population in the region of 530,000.
We're so grateful to all the East Lancashire patients who’ve volunteered to take part in health research. You join over 20,000 participants from our hospitals, who contribute to a better understanding of disease and finding new treatments.
The safety of patients and hospital staff is our top priority and we are following the Trust guidance for infection control and hospital appointments. This includes minimising footfall on the hospital site, maintaining social distancing and using decontamination procedures.
If you were taking part in a research study at the hospital before the COVID-19 outbreak, the study team will have contacted you to discuss any changes to your follow up appointments, or to your medication and how to collect this from the hospital. As we restart any research that was temporarily paused, the study team will continue to inform you of any changes that may affect you.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with your study team. Their contact details are as follows:
For women’s health research: 01282 803081 For children's research: 01254 732643 For cancer research: 01254 733299 For all other research: 01254 732756
If you’d like to find out more about research at East Lancashire Hospitals, please visit the research pages of this website or you can also follow us on twitter @ELHTresearch. The Be Part of Research website also provides more information on research and lists the studies taking place in East Lancashire and nationally throughout the NHS.
You can find out more about our response to the COVID-19 pandemic here.
For further information about these studies please contact the Research Support Office by calling 01254 732756.
Short title
Description
Status
Local Researcher
Find out more
* Study not open to new participants at ELHT (Temporary pause due to COVID 19)
Last updated 01st June 2023
You may need to talk to your doctor about taking part in the studies listed here.
If you’re already taking part in a research study but can't see it listed here, the study may be closed to recruitment. All the patients that the researchers needed to include, will have been entered into the study. But for patients already taking part, study treatment and the collection of research data will continue.
For information about any of these studies, please contact our research team on 01254 732651 or 01254 733213.
Local researcher
Further information
PQIP
Improving perioperative care through the use of quality data: Patient Study of the Perioperative Quality Improvement Programme
Dr M Pollard
PQIP website
* Study not open to new participants at ELHT (Temporary pause)
Patient group
IBD BioResource
Crohn's disease
Dr J Collum
IBD BioResource webpage
For information about any of our cancer studies, please contact the cancer research team on 01254 733299.
UKGPC study
UK Genetic Prostate Cancer Study
Dr O Parikh
The Institute of Cancer Research website
Cancer Research UK website
EVAREST
BADBIR
British Association of Dermatologists Biologic Interventions Register
Skin
Dr Owen
BADBIR study website
B-STOP
A multicentre, prospective, cohort study to establish clinically relevant pharmacogenetic markers of systemic treatment outcomes in patients with severe psoriasis
You may need to talk to your doctor or midwife about taking part in the studies listed here.
If you’re already taking part in a research study and it is not listed here, the study may be closed to recruitment. This means that all the patients that the researchers needed to include, have been entered into the study. However, for patients already taking part, study treatment and the collection of research data will continue.
For information about any of these studies, please contact the women's health research team:
Burnley General Hospital: 01282 803081
Royal Blackburn Hospital: Women's health: 01254 732650; Children's research: 01254 732643.
UK ITP registry
The UK Paediatric ITP Registry
Children,
Dr V Holme
UK Paediatric ITP Working Party website
ESPRIT 2
Children
https://aba-feed.org/
Clinical research studies happening locally and nationally can be found by searching the following databases: