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