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Opportunities
28 opportunities found
Do you have experience of needing a catheter or central line?
Location: North West
Help improve catheter care—join a Manchester workshop on a new infection-preventing device
Tackling Resistant Hypertension: Understanding Burden, Biology, and Treatment Opportunities
Location: UK wide
Studying causes and treatments for hard-to-treat high blood pressure.
Online Intensive Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy for Veterans with PTSD
Location: UK wide
A Randomised Control Trial comparing Intensive EMDR (I-EMDR) to treatment as usual for Veterans
Help shape the design of a chat-bot tool supporting families with neurodivergent children
Location: All of England
Workshops, focus groups and survey opportunities to help develop an online tool for family support
Assist with a study looking at access to medications for people being cared for on virtual wards, living in their last year of life.
Location: UK wide
Check the questions we intend to ask, in our survey and interviews, and read other study documents.
Round 3-A Delphi survey to identify a core set of items for sharing the results of randomised trials with patients and the public
Location: [Not applicable]
A short survey where items will be rated to include when sharing trial results
Understanding the Genetic Basis in a Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Dissection cohort using Next Generation Genetic Sequencing approach
Location: UK wide
Understanding the genetic cause of aortic aneurysm and dissection
National Institute for Health and Care Research Patient Engagement in Clinical Development Service: Opportunity to shape the design of a clinical trial in Ulcerative Colitis
Location: UK wide
An opportunity to review documents involved in the design of a commercial trial
Nurse-led psychosocial rehabilitation intervention to support young adults following an Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).
Location: UK wide
Online workshops will be conducted with young adults with ABI to inform on their psychosocial needs
Call for Lay Members to be involved in the UK’s Pathway for Innovative Medicines
Location: UK wide
We need your input to ensure patient, public and societal needs are central to decisions.
A new way to stop tooth decay for those affected by the justice system : help us shape a feasibility study to that will explore introducing new clinical dental preventive treatments in prisons
Location: UK wide
Help us shape a feasibility study to that will explore introducing new preventive dental treatment
A new way to stop tooth decay for those affected by the justice system: help us shape a feasibility study to that will explore introducing new clinical dental preventive treatments in prisons
Location: UK wide
Help us shape a feasibility study to that will explore introducing new preventive dental treatment
Patient and Public Involvement opportunity looking at medicines optimisation at care transitions for people living with dementia
Location: UK wide
Seeking PPI members for a systematic review looking at transitions of care in dementia
Smoking reduction for people with serious mental illness
Location: UK wide
Testing different ways to help people with serious mental illness to reduce their smoking
Improving patient care by finding the most effective way to freeze and store stem cells.
Location: North East
We are looking for 5 Frozen Stem Cell Transplant Recipients to attend an event: Barnsley 02/09/25
Join us as a patient and public reviewer at the BMJ
Location: UK wide
Review research questions for relevance and importance and outcome measures
Recovery following a hip fracture
Location: UK wide
We want to speak to older adults who broke their hip following a fall, or their carers.
The Role of Nursing Associates in GP Practices
Location: All of England
Exploring patient and public perceptions and experiences of Nursing Associates in GP practices
The development and evaluation of the first fertility preservation patient decision aid to support boys and young men with cancer: Cancer, Fertility and Me for Boys and Young Men
Location: UK wide
Are you a young male aged 11-25 who has had cancer (or a family member of)?
Risks and benefits of concomitant use of contraceptives and hormonal replacement therapy
Location: [Not applicable]
Drug interactions between hormonal therapies and other medications
Using Patient/Family Experience to Improve the Treatment of Older Adults Admitted to Hospital with Multiple Rib Fractures
Location: UK wide
Improving the Treatment of Older Adults with Multiple Rib Fractures
**Opportunity** to Shape the Future of Multiple Sclerosis Care: We Want to Hear from You!
Location: UK wide
Have MS? Share your experience to help improve digital MS care.
Looking for patient voices to share thoughts on new way of delivering progesterone for miscarriage prevention
Location: UK wide
Looking for participants to shape a study on a new vaginal miscarriage prevention treatment
Barriers, enablers, and potential health inequalities of talking therapies delivered remotely
Location: All of England
Gain the views of Stroke survivors around receiving psychological therapy remotely.
A Delphi survey to identify a core set of items for sharing the results of randomised trials with patients and the public
Location: [Not applicable]
Help shape how trial results are shared—take our 15–20 min survey for patients & the public.
Inner speech after stroke and its role in memory and attention
Location: East of England, East Midlands, London
We are looking for stroke survivors with ongoing aphasia or who have had aphasia in the past
Mental health symptoms in Lewy body diseases
Location: UK wide
Survey for people affected by Lewy body disease on opinions/experiences of mental health symptoms
Get involved in new blood biomarker research for Alzheimer’s disease
Location: UK wide, London
I am looking for patients, carers or members of the public with experience or interest in dementia
