Take part in health research at Chilwell Valley & Meadows Practice

Health research helps doctors find better ways to prevent, treat and manage common conditions. By taking part, YOU can help improve care for our patients now and in the future.

Why your involvement matters

Taking part in research is completely voluntary. You’ll be given clear information about what’s involved so you can decide what’s right for you. Research can:

– Give you access to new health information

– Improve treatments and tests

– Help prevent illness

– Make care better for people like you

There are many different types of research available for people to take part in, and the overwhelming majority of people have a positive experience of research. Please click on this link for more details on the patient experience of research.

We would like to extend a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who has taken part in research at the practice – you really have made a difference!

If we invite you to take part in a study, please consider doing so. Recent studies have shown that 93% of patients who took part in research would do so again.

To find out more about taking part in research here, please contact us via email: nnicb-nn.cvamp@nhs.net

You can opt out of receiving research related text invitations, please let us know. Alternatively, you can search for research taking place near you here.

Here are some short videos explaining why you may wish to consider talking part in research:

Meet the team

Research lead GPs and Principal Investigators: Dr Kunaal Shah and Dr Marcia Clark

Research Nurse: Maliha Yaqub

Research Manager: Ed Longridge

Studies we are currently involved in:

By invitation only (if invited please consider participating).

Gedacne, Cormorant, Stabilise, Virology swabbing, Coral, Improving Black Health Outcomes, Paper

Studies you can sign up yourself take part:

You can download a list of studies you can sign yourself up for here with handy QR codes for each one.

In addition see the studies below:

TRICEPS – TRanscutaneous lImb reCovEry Post-Stroke

Vision screening – how to better manage sight loss in older people to prevent falls

Earswitch – help develop a new assistive communication device

Attend – mindfulness for adolescents and carers

Young migrants living with sickle cell disease

IBHO – Improving Black Health Outcomes

DESTINIES

Do you want to help see our most vulnerable patients properly monitored in times of pandemic? And do you have 1 hour to spare to make a difference?’

Researchers at the University of Oxford recently completed a study that has built international agreement on the diagnoses that cause immunosuppression and their different risks for COVID-19 infection. They hope to use this information to improve how these patients are monitored and protected when disease spreads rapidly in the community – but they need your help!

These researchers are looking for volunteers to join their Immunosuppressed Patient Panel. These panellists will be asked to give feedback on this study and its findings from their own lived experience – no special knowledge or skills are required. Time commitment is a maximum of 1 hour.

If you identify as immunosuppressed and are interested in supporting this work, then please sign up at the link below. Your input will make all the difference! Click on this link: https://tinyurl.com/5n89z6p2

Frontotemporal dementia and supporting carers

Join Dementia Research

A place to register your interest in taking part in vital Dementia research. Click here for more details.

Autism research register

You can sign up to join the register of people interested in taking part in research related to autism. Click here for more details.

GLAD study

Want to make a difference to future generations of people with mental health disorders? Then join or share the Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression Study gladstudy.org.uk

Discover Me

Discover Me is a nationwide research study looking at how health and genetic information can allow us to better understand disease. By joining Discover Me United Kingdom you can get insights into your health and genetic ancestry.

MyMelanoma

A partnership between people who have been affected by melanoma, clinicians and researchers to form the largest melanoma research study in the world. Click here for details.

Life Threads

Supporting families after traumatic brain injury. Click here for details.

Impulse control in Parkinson’s disease

Aiming to look at the mechanisms underlying how you control your movements. Contact Aliya Warden via email at ach722@bham.ac.uk

Angling for trauma

Are you a military veteran or blue light worker? Would you like to find out about an angling (fishing) initiative for those who have experienced trauma? Click here for details.

Study outcomes

The study cycle can take years and so sometimes we don’t get to find out the outcome until some time after we’ve been involved. If you took part in a study and would like to know how it went you are advised to contact the study team who enrolled you. If we are made aware of any outcomes they will be listed below.

RCGP Research Ready accreditation

RCGP Research Ready

Chilwell Valley and Meadows Practice is Research Ready Accredited. Research Ready® is a quality assurance programme for all research-active UK GP practices. It is designed in line with the UK Research Governance Framework’s legal, ethical, professional, and patient safety requirements.

The programme serves to provide information, support and guidance to accredited practices in research; both to assist with meeting the requirements above, and with considering and conducting research.

Awards

We are proud to have won awards for recruitment to research studies in the East Midlands. We have also recently been in the top 5 in the UK.

Our Practice Systems and Research Manager won the prestigious National Institute for Health Research (East Midlands) Judges Special Recognition award 2024 for his work as Nottinghamshire Research Champion.