Case studies

Advancing decentralised clinical trials: Patient Recruitment Centres cement their success

Learn why 5 Patient Recruitment Centres are better than one when planning and delivering decentralised clinical trial activities.

Published: 10 April 2024

CLARITY IBD: Changing the way we do research

Case study on the success of clinical trial delivery by CLARITY IBD

Published: 28 February 2022

FOCUS4 - Foundations for fighting COVID-19

How forward-thinking approaches to cancer clinical trials from the last decade have featured in the UK’s fight against COVID-19.

Published: 07 June 2021

STAMPEDE - a turning point in trial design

Case study on Stampede trial

Published: 07 June 2021

National Lung Matrix Trial - laying the groundwork for combatting COVID-19

Case study on national lung matrix trial

Published: 06 June 2021

Paving the way for the future of remote trial delivery

Learn how the NIHR supported the PD-STAT trial to transition to a virtual model during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published: 06 May 2021

Pushing virtual boundaries to improve patient engagement and accessibility

NIHR and Enteromed collaboration delivers the UK’s first fully virtual, commercial, interventional trial for Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diarrhea (IBS-D).

Published: 12 April 2021

REMAP-CAP tests treatments for COVID-19

Story of a nationally-prioritised study which aims to provide answers about the best treatment options for COVID-19 patients who develop pneumonia.

Published: 18 September 2020

The UK's flagship COVID-19 treatment trial - the RECOVERY trial

The NIHR-supported RECOVERY trial is leading the way in identifying treatments for this new infectious disease.

Published: 18 September 2020

Rococo: Real-world research in a pharmacy setting

The real-world approach adopted by the Rococo study meant that it was the first cough medicine study in the UK to be delivered entirely in a pharmacy setting - a significant achievement for community-based health research.

Published: 02 January 2020

New biobank brings a wealth of new opportunities for UK renal research

Research registries and biobanks present an efficient way of doing research. In the UK the life sciences industry, charities and academia are collaborating to maximise this new approach and open up a wealth of new opportunities to accelerate new advances that will benefit kidney disease patients.

Published: 04 October 2019

Using data to answer to the vitamin D question for dialysis patients

In the UK our ability to access rich patient data within our national healthcare system is rapidly expanding. The advent of the ehealth record and ever-growing interconnectivity of information systems is opening up new opportunities and enabling new and innovative approaches to conducting clinical trials. The SIMPLIFIED study is a case in point and is the first renal registry-facilitated trial of its kind.