Woolpit Health Centre is a member of the East Anglian Primary Care Research Network as a ‘Research Active Practice’.
This means that our patients, if suitable, may be asked to take part in clinical trials for new drugs or new uses of existing drugs to further our understanding of how best to treat certain conditions. By doing this research in a General Practice setting, rather than just in hospital patients, the results of a clinical trial can be more easily applied to the whole UK population rather than just to select groups.
The research is led by Dr West and the Admin Team, who identify patients who have the characteristics that the trial investigators are looking for. They approach patients to see if they would be interested in joining the trial and meeting our Research Nurse.
We believe that patients who participate in research studies benefit from doing so. Patients who decide that they do not want to take part are totally at liberty to do so, and for these patients we will continue to treat them in line with current best practice.