nihr sheffield clinical research facility international clinical trials day 2015
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NIHR Sheffield Clinical Research Facility
International Clinical Trials Day 2015
In Collaboration with the
University of Sheffield
Celebrating clinical research in today’s NHS
On Tuesday May 19th Sheffield Star
published a feature article on
the benefits of clinical research and highlighted
the activities taking place on May 20th around
the Trust and University
The Trust highlighted the roles of those
working in clinical research in the week preceding
International Clinical Trials Day on social media and other Trust
communications such as Link
Magazine
Up to 80,000 impressions across all social media channels
More than 27,000 individual accounts reached
More than 479 shares, likes and comments on Facebook alone
Several hundred retweets, clicks and engagements on Twitter
On Wednesday May 20th BBC
Radio Sheffield featured Prof
Simon Heller and a trial patient in celebration of International
Clinical Trials Day
On the same day a number of other activities took place to mark the first
clinical trial conducted in 1747 by James Lind, Royal Naval Surgeon, who proved the
link between citrus fruits and scurvy...
Sheffield College students studying
Applied Biomedical
Science toured the CRF at the
Northern General Hospital site and
attended presentations
within cardiology and cardiothoracic
surgery
Our staff were ready and waiting to let them know that it’s ‘OK to Ask!’
CRF Staff manned stands in clinical areas throughout the hospital to promote clinical
research and OK to Ask!
Year 10 Students from Firth Park Academy were shown the NIHR Clinical Research
Facility at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Again, the message was clear that it’s ‘OK to Ask!’
At 6pm a well attended public talk was held in the Medical School which explained why clinical research is important to the NHS, why it should be seen as core business and what it’s like to participate in. This was followed by a panel of speakers and patients answering questions from the audience
CRF Research Nurse, Branwen Ellison-Handley gave a perspective from the CRF
Afterwards, a host of
interactive stands in the foyer of the
Medical School provided an
opportunity to learn more
Feedback from the evening was
extremely positive and
resulted in some brilliant
outcomes...
“The event was made very enjoyable because of the informal and friendly attitude of the medical staff to the
audience”
“It was all very well organised and presented to us. I hope they will be
another event similar that we can take part in as a school again”
“Very engaging presentations by the team including by research nurse Branwen who
captured the essence of the role and moving testaments from patients about
why they became involved”
The Sheffield Telegraph
featured a round up of the event
and a short video featuring Ali
Mortimer, Lead Nurse R&D
Click on the image to watch the video
Of course, there were many other events across the country on May 20th to mark the
day
Click on the image to watch the video
Naturally, Twitter shared much of the action with the research
community and the public in the
run up to the event and on the
day itself...
27.7.K re-tweet reach
#NIHROkToAsk
Without your help this simply would not have been possible.
Thanks to everyone who gave up their time to support International Clinical
Trials Day 2015