The short answer is Yes –  you can join.

However there are a number of issues worth pointing out.

- Site Specific Approval: We have ethics approval centrally and normally local Site Specific Approval is handled by the NHS R&D.  From the available guidance, it appears that we would need to submit approval to a local ethics committee (local NHS ethics committees should be happy to help)

- You would not be eligible for NHS funding for the time/work involved.  So participating in the study is ‘free’, but it does take some time and you would have to decide whether you could find this time in your working week.  We estimate an average hospital would recruit 3 patients per week for the year of the study.  There is one screen of data to enter per patient plus sometime helping provide us with some other administrative data. We hope that this is not too onerous.

We’d be happy to have you if this sounds feasible to you!