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December 2013 Newsletter
Telmisartan and insulin resistance in HIV
Contact: Claire Taylor, TAILoR Trial Coordinator Tel: 0151 706 4376, email: [email protected]
Welcome to the first TAILoR Newsletter!This publication will keep you updated on recruitment figures and will bring you the latest information about the trial. It will be emailed to the research teams at each site and once the website is finalised it will also be available there.
TAILoR Recruiting Centres
We’d like to welcome the sites that were opened in September, October, and December:
Brighton and Sussex University HospitalsSt James University HospitalCity of Coventry Health CentreWestern General HospitalJames Cook University HospitalYorClinic
We are expecting to open further sites soon at:
Chelsea and Westminster HospitalsNorth Middlesex University HospitalSt Helens HospitalManchester Royal Infirmary
Meet the TAILoR Team
Recruitment
Recruitment has gathered momentum now that more sites are open. There are now 69 patients recruited on TAILoR.
October was one of our busiest months with 14 patients randomised! November was even busier with 22 patients randomised. Thank you for your efforts.
The biggest recruiter in October with 4 randomised patients was the City of Coventry Health Centre (Dr Satyajit Das). The biggest recruiter in November with 8 randomised patients was Royal Free Hospital, London (Prof. Margaret Johnson).
The 50th participant was randomised by City of Coventry Health Centre in October. When the 100th patient is recruited there will be a certificate and a gift for the research team who recruits this landmark patient.
Site Number RecruitedRoyal Liverpool Hospital 22Royal Free Hospital, London 12King’s College, London 7Guys and St Thomas Hospital, London 14Royal Bournemouth Hospital 1Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals 2Weston General Hospital 0St James University Hospital 1City of Coventry Health Centre 8James Cook University Hospital 2
Recent EventsWe hosted a TAILoR meeting during the Autumn BHIVA Conference. This was well attended and we’d like to thank those who were there. It was a pleasure to meet you all and put names to faces!
Trial NewsThe 7th substantial amendment has recently been submitted to REC and we are hoping for approval to be granted soon. This amendment has included some changes to the protocol, the PISC, contact card and treatment diary. It will also include ethical approval for our website.
Special NoteAlso, a big thank you to Jo Tomkins in Coventry for all her hard work, we’d like to wish her well as she is off to pastures new. Welcome to Emily Benson, who will now be replacing Jo.
Christmas!It’s December already!The CTRC will be closed from 20th Dec 3013 to 2nd Jan 2014. Details of the operating procedure during the closed period will be circulated soon.
The TAILoR trial office is based at the University of Liverpool, where it is managed by members of the Liverpool Clinical Trials Research Centre and the Department of Molecular Clinical Pharmacology. Photograph (Left to Right) Cath Spowart (Supervisory Trial Manager), Dr Sudeep Pushpakom (Senior Post-Doc and Lecturer), Claire Taylor (Trial Coordinator) Prof Munir Pirmohamed (Chief Investigator), Jennifer Harrison (Research Nurse), Helen Reynolds (Research Nurse), and Ruwanthi Kolamunnage Dona (Trial Statistician).
