Professor Vicki Goodwin at Exeter University has led work to develop best practice recommendations on including older people in health and social care research based on the NIHR INCLUDE framework. Older people are a broad heterogenous group, ranging from healthy individuals to those with severe health [...]

The STRIDE project has come up with eight recommendations for trial teams grappling with how to decide which ethnic groups their trial needs. The recommendations came as a result of discussions with panels of public contributors, trialists, health professionals, and others. Some of the key messages [...]

The Trial Steering Committees can seem a bit daunting, but the Trial Methodology Research Network (TMRN) in Ireland is running a 1-day online workshop on 15th May 2023 on what to expect on a Trial Steering Committee. The workshop faculty is superb and will give researcher, [...]

In 2022 we published an article called ‘Getting it wrong most of the time? Comparing trialists’ choice of primary outcome with what patients and health professionals want‘. It looked at the outcomes selected in 44 breast cancer and kidney trials and asked patients and health professionals [...]

Can you help with the development of the INCLUDE Impaired Capacity to Consent Framework by piloting the framework and sharing feedback about how it can be used in practice? Trials involving adults who lack capacity to consent can be challenging. Following on from the NIHR INCLUDE [...]