Practice Research Activities

Our Practice is an award winning research active practice

Did you know that clinical research takes place at this GP Practice? The Research Site Initiative is a scheme for all GP practices in the East Midlands to engage in clinical research. There are 4 levels, with the highest (Level 4) being the one requiring the greatest commitment by the practice. We have been Level 4 since March 2022.

We’re proud to give our patients the opportunity to take part in research here so that together we can develop new treatments and medicines for the future.

There are many different types of research available for people to take part in, and the overwhelming majority of people have a positive experience of research. Please click on this link for more details on the patient experience of research.

Last year, more people took part in research in primary care settings (such as GP Practices) in the East Midlands than any other part of England. Join them and help us to improve healthcare.

Our Practice Systems & Research Manager is currently the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG joint Research Champion.

We would like to extend a big ‘thank you’ to everyone who has taken part in research at the practice – you really have made a difference!

If we invite you to take part in a study, please consider doing so. Recent studies have shown that 93% of patients who took part in research would do so again.

To find out more about taking part in research here, please contact us via email: nnicb-nn.cvamp@nhs.net

You can opt out of receiving text invitations, please let us know. Alternatively, you can search for research taking place near you here.

Here is a short video explaining why you may wish to consider talking part in research: URL: https://youtu.be/80d-Lajwk9y

Meet the team

Research lead GP and Principal Investigator: Dr Victoria Robinson

Research Nurse: Ellie Angelova-Cooper

Research Manager: Ed Longridge

Covid research

here is a short video on how research has helped the Covid vaccines be developed so quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpIsvIWJ5u4&t

These are some of the studies we are currently involved in:

By invitation only (if invited please consider participating).

Restore, Redefine3, Multi-ethnic Lifestyle Study, Tharros, DePICTion, Duration, Optimise2, IID3, MiFoot, Relief, Rapid Eczema.

Sign up  yourself to take part:

Join Dementia Research

A place to register your interest in taking part in vital Dementia research. Click here for more details.

Autism research register

You can sign up to join the register of people interested in taking part in research related to autism.

Click here for more details.

Discover Me

Discover Me is a nationwide research study looking at how health and genetic information can allow us to better understand disease. By joining Discover Me United Kingdom you can get insights into your health and genetic ancestry.

MyMelanoma 

A partnership between people who have been affected by melanoma, clinicians and researchers to form the largest melanoma research study in the world. Click here for details.

Improving the accuracy in earlier diagnosis of lung cancer 

Looking for people who had imaging for suspected lung cancer, regardless of diagnosis or treatment. If interested contact: j.rawlinson@justrealsolutions.com, anne.powell@oncology.ox.ac.uk or melissa.dobson@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Chilwell Valley and Meadows Practice is Research Ready Accredited. Research Ready® is a quality assurance programme for all research-active UK GP practices. It is designed in line with the UK Research Governance Framework’s legal, ethical, professional, and patient safety requirements.

The programme serves to provide information, support and guidance to accredited practices in research; both to assist with meeting the requirements above, and with considering and conducting research.

Awards

We are proud to have won this award for coming 1st in the East Midlands for recruitment to research studies. We have also recently been in the top 5 in the UK.

Our Practice Systems and Research Manager won the prestigious National Institute for Health Research (East Midlands) Judges Special Recognition award 2024 for his work as Nottinghamshire Research Champion.