We are pleased to continue our collaboration within the KSS Clinical Research Network, and open Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust as a NICE FIT Study Site.
1000 London patients recruited!
We are pleased to announce that we have recruited over 1000 patients from our London sites. As recruitment continues to gather pace, and hospitals within London continue to join us, we expect our recruitment rate to continue accelerating towards our target of 5500 patients within London. Many thanks to all our colleagues and partners at our London sites for their hard work.
New site opened at Salisbury
We are delighted to welcome Salisbury District Hospital to the NICE FIT Study!
New sites opened: Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight
We are delighted to welcome the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth and St Mary's Hospital on the Isle of Wight to the NICE FIT Study.
Further Sites across London and UK Opened Today
We are delighted that Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, and University Southampton NHS Trust have joined our study!
Nearly every eligible hospital in London is now offering their patients the opportunity to participate in our study. Southampton is our second national site to open-- the Wessex CRN have been setting the pace nationally.
Our study is still open for other sites to join-- please contact nigel.d'souza@nhs.net for more information.
National Recruitment Just Launched!
We are pleased to announce Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as our first site for national recruitment! Patients referred on the 2 week wait colorectal pathway will be offered the chance to participate in the NICE FIT study. We look forward to collaborating with our colleagues on this work to enhance patient care. With a further 4 sites across the country due to open for recruitment in the next 2 weeks, we our keeping our trial manager Carlene Parchment very busy!
Ethics Approval: Streamlined Participation for Patients
Great news from the Research and Ethics Committee: our application to streamline our process for patient participation has been approved. This means it is even easier for patients to participate in the NICE FIT study. We have also amended our information sheet after feedback from patients.
12th December 2017: Study Committee Meeting
A successful quarterly meeting of the NICE FIT study committee. Quality assurance methodology was agreed for national recruitment-- and we will start opening sites nationally soon!
9th December 2017: Royal Society of Medicine Prize Session
Our pilot data was presented by Mr Nigel D'Souza at the prize session for the RSM Coloproctology Joint Meeting with the Association of Coloproctologists of Great Britain and Ireland.