SURGERY NEWS
Research News
Our active participation in Clinical Research, in collaberation with the NIHR (National Institute of Clinical Research), several university research departments (including Southampton, Oxford, Nottingham and Bristol), helps us to find answers for important questions in the management of a diverse range of health conditions.
This process obviously benefits patients, not only now, but for also for future generations of people across the country and further afield. Trials we have been involved with have been published in eminent medical journals, including BMJ, Lancet, NEJM, and have influenced the shaping of various local and national guidelines.
We are of course very grateful to all the patients that help us with these trials, for their altruistic gift of time and their patience and without whom, none of this would be possible.
We are actively recruiting patients into the following clinical trials:
- TIGER - Does food allergy test-guided dietary advice improve disease control in children with eczema?
- ATHENA - Can taking amitriptyline tablets, stop long term pain from shingles?
- RELIEF - Assessing a new relief inhaler for mild Asthma - is it more effective than the current standard treatment?
- COAT - Is a short course (5 days) of antibiotics as good as a standard course (7 days) in patients with cellulitis?
- Virology Surveillance is a programme to to monitor the spread of respiratory viruses, like flu and COVID-19, in different regions throughout the winter. It also helps measure the effectiveness of the influenza/flu and COVID-19 vaccinations using results from swabs taken by patients who are unwell.
Patient Participation Group
We are looking for more patients to get involved. See our PPG page for more information.
Dementia Friendly Hampshire Guide
Care Choices have now made an online version of the Dementia Friendly Hampshire Guide. This is available using the link below.
Dementia Friendly Hampshire Guide
Smokefree Hampshire
Did you know you are 3x more likely to quit smoking with support & medication and this can be offered to you free of charge. You can text QUIT to 66777, telephone 08007723649 or self refer on this website: Smokefree Hampshire
Hampshire Walking
We are supporting the Get Hampshire Walking campaign.
Please see the Test Valley Health Walks page for details of local socially distanced walks in the Test Valley area.
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