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Research Volunteers Wanted - ID Stroke Study

If you are a professional working in NHS stroke services in the UK and have responsibility for making decisions regarding the investigation of stroke aetiology, we would love to hear from you The ID-Stroke study is exploring how healthcare professionals make decisions regarding the investigation of stroke aetiology, including what investigations to order, sequencing of these investigations, when to stop looking for a possible cause, and the factors that influence these decisions....

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Research and Development Contacts

Local delivery, development and governance of clinical research is achieved through regional nodes working with NHS boards to provide support across Scotland. Visit the Node pages for further details. North NHS Grampian Research and Development OfficeForesterhi...

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ENRICH Scotland

Enabling Research in Care Homes Improving the lives and health of people living in care homes is a major priority, but care home residents are generally underrepresented in research studies. Enabling Research in Care Homes (ENRICH) aims to change this by strengthening support for research outside the NHS.

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Take Part in Current Research

Each year in Scotland more than 1500 clinical research studies take place, involving over 30,000 patients. Taking part in research can offer many benefits. It may provide access to new tre...

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Our Staff

SDRN Executive Group members Professor Rory McCrimmon NRS Diabetes Lead Clinician Professor Rory McCrimmon trained at the University of Edinburgh and completed his clinical and speciality training in the South-East of Scotland before becoming an NHS Consultant Physician in Diabetes and Endocrinology at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool, in 2000. In 2002, he joined the faculty at Yale University, Connecticut, to further develop his basic research in the central regulatio...

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What Happens to my Tissue?

Often doctors need to remove tissue as part of your treatment, for example during a surgical operation. Alternatively, they might take a small sample to help them find out what might be wrong with you (tissue collected for this reason is called a 'biopsy'). The samples that the NHS Research Scotland (NRS) Biorepository Network collects is material that is removed during a patient's routine clinical procedure, and which is surplus after all the necessary diagnostic tests have been concluded. O...

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