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Over 100,000 volunteers now registered for COVID-19 vaccine trials
17th August 2020
As the number of people registered to take part in COVID-19 vaccine trials has now topped 100,000, we are encouraging others to follow their lead to help speed up efforts to d...
NHS Research Scotland Restarting Research Survey
14th August 2020
A new patient survey has been launched by NHS Research Scotland to capture confidence levels of patients returning to participate in NHS research. Whilst COVID-1...
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Guidance on health and social care research projects for educational purposes - update
13th August 2020
In March 2020 the Health Research Authority (HRA) and devolved administrations (DA's) announced the suspension of reviewing applications for individual undergraduate and...
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Landmark MND trial opens in Dundee
12th August 2020
The groundbreaking motor neurone disease clinical drugs trial, MND-SMART, has today opened to participants in NHS Tayside. This is the trial’s second UK centre. ...
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