Event Archive

The NHS Scotland Event is the leading health Event in Scotland. It continues to be the ‘premier meeting place’ for those committed to providing sustainable high quality health and social care services for the people of Scotland. Following the postponement of the 2020 Event due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the...

This Thursday the 20 May is International Clinical Trials Day #ICTD2021 The Health Services Research Unit (HSRU) Public Engagement Group are hosting a TweetChat on the HSRU Twitter page. Join them on Thursday from 12.30-1.20pm BST to discuss your views about #ClinicalTrials and #PublicEngagement. All you need to do is use the hashtag...

Professor Marion Campbell will be one of the speakers at the Health Research Board Trials Methodology Research Network Event on 10 March 2021 (Online)

HSRU's Professor Alison Avenell will be taking part in an online session presented by FFN Fragility Fracture Network on 1 December 2020 at 12.00pm. This session will introduce the impact of malnutrition on patients with hip fracture and evidence for the importance of nutritional management including from Professor Avenell’s Cochrane reviews....

Registration is now open for the 2020 MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership Annual Meeting which will be held on the 17th November. The MRC-NIHR TMRP Annual Meeting, which takes place on alternate years to ICTMC, will include a programme of talks and breakout discussions. There will be two sessions on the day...

The 2020 SCT Program Task Force is pleased to share that content for the SCT Virtual Meeting for 2020 is in development and will be offered from 1 September 2020 to 30 April 2021. For more details please visit the website - www.sctweb.org

After careful consideration of the ongoing spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) overseas and in the United States, the Society for Clinical Trials ("SCT") Board of Directors decided not to conduct SCT's 2020 Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland (May 17-20, 2020).

On 28th November, Mairead Black will lead a workshop in Edinburgh titled ‘Shared decision-making in planning childbirth – multi-stakeholder research agenda-setting workshop’. Dr Katie Gillies and Prof Louise Locock will attend along with leaders in shared decision-making Profs Richard Thomson (Newcastle) and Angela Coulter (BMJ/King’s Fund). Academics with related interest, clinicians,...

HSRU's Dr Katie Gillies, Professor Shaun Treweek and Dr Heidi Gardner will be attending the kick-off meeting for the trial Conduct Working Group of the new MRC-NIHR Trial Methodology Research Partnership, of which HSRU is part of.  Katie Gillies is a co-lead of the Working Group. The meeting will include three...

HSRU's Dr Magdalena Rzewuska will be contributing to a panel discussion held by ID-Hub in line with World Antibiotic Awareness Week. With four other experts she will be answering questions on antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic use and stewardship and highlighting our work in the area to a global audience. This is...