Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has been mentioned in the renowned New England Journal of Medicine, as one of the hospitals involved in trials of a drug which aims to help patients with severe COVID-19 symptoms. Dexamethasone was one of the patient treatments tested at part of the nationwide RECOVERY trial that is seeking drugs and […]

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Government, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), launched a national urgent public health response which included starting a number of clinical trials which were fast-tracked to ensure that as many Covid-19 patients were recruited as possible across the UK.  Airedale NHS Foundation Trust was part of this response […]

Airedale NHS Foundation Trust has joined the fight against Coronavirus by recruiting COVID-19 patients to take part in a ground-breaking new study of the disease performed by the partnership between the GenOMICC Study Consortium (led by the University of Edinburgh) and Genomics England. The study, announced by the Secretary of State for Health and Social […]

In celebration of International Clinical Trials Day, staff from Airedale Hospital are giving people the opportunity to find out more about research and take part in a Yorkshire’s largest health study – at a number of events in the community starting on 22 May. International Clinical Trials Day is held on 20 May each year […]

The Yorkshire and Humber region will be playing a key role in the development of personalised medicine through the establishment of a new NHS Genomic Medicine Centre (GMC). NHS England announced today that the region has been given approval to set up the centre as part of the national 100,000 Genome Project. The groundbreaking project […]

Patients from Airedale Hospital are taking in the world’s largest ever clinical trial looking at whether taking aspirin can stop some of the most common cancer coming back. The Add-Aspirin phase III trial, funded by Cancer Research UK and the National Institute for Health Research, aims to find out if taking aspirin every day for […]