There are several ways you can be involved in research: as a participant if you are being treated for a particular disease; as a healthy volunteer; as a relative or carer of a patient. If you are a member of staff, you may be part of a research team, or you may be asked to participate in a study about your role.
When being treated in our hospital, you may be invited to take part in one of the many research studies we are undertaking. You may be approached by your consultant or specialist nurse, or by another member of the research team. Please note that Stockport is a research active Trust and research is a key priority for the hospital. We actively support health and care research to expand the options available to our patients.
You will be given written information about the study and a member of the research team will discuss this with you. You will be given time to read the information and the opportunity to ask questions.
For some studies you may need to attend extra visits. This will be explained to you.
Participation in research is always voluntary, and if you decide not to take part you will always receive current standard care.
The NHS National Institute for Health Research is a source of a wealth of information relating to clinical research. To find out more, please visit: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/.
Participant Information and Health and Care Research
Please visit the Health Research Authority website: https://www.hra.nhs.uk/information-about-patients/. This provides details around how participant information and data may be used for research, how information may be kept for future research and your choices about health and care research.
Use of Medical Records for the POOL Study at Stockport
(Medical Record Info Leaflet, v1.3 IRAS Number 238743)
This study plans to answer the question about the safety of waterbirths. The study is collecting data on the births of all women in around 30 maternity units across the UK until Summer (June) 2022.
The study will determine
- how many women are using birth pools - how many women give birth in water - whether mothers or their babies come to any extra harm as a result of waterbirth
The study will include women giving birth to their first baby and women giving birth to a subsequent child.
For babies that need specialist care after birth, the study will also use data held by the National Neonatal Research Database (NNRD). This will mean securely sending their NHS number and other identifiers to the NNRD so that we can find them in their database.
All of the information will then be securely sent to the Cardiff University research team.This will be anonymised and we will not be able to identify any mother or child.
If you do not wish for the research team to have any access to your or your child’s medical records for the purpose of the POOL study, please inform your midwife. If you would prefer to contact the unit please email Research.Development@stockport.nhs.uk or call 0161 419 5891/ 3.
For more information about the research project:
Web page:
https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/centre-for-trials-research/research/studies-and-trials/view/pool
Email: POOLStudy@cardiff.ac.uk |