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TAPS:Treatment of Aches and PainS Trial

The STarT Back trial showed that stratified care, based on matching treatment to prognosis (lw, medium, or high risk of ongoing problems), was clinically and cost effective.

TAPS is a flagship clinical trial to test if this approach also works for people with neck, shoulder, knee and multi-site pain (& back pain).

Linear and non-linear brain changes over the transition to psychosis

We are looking for volunteers (16-35 years old) to take part in an imaging study about brain changes associated with mental health at the University of Birmingham.

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Dr Farhana Lockhat
I recently joined the WMS CRN team as GP Research Champion for Warwickshire North CCG. Now a GP principle at Manor Court Surgery in Nuneaton for almost 10 years, prior to moving into general practice, I was a Clinical Research Fellow in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Leicester University for 3 years, and I have first-hand experience of the trials and tribulations of implementing clinical research projects.

As part of our strategy to increase research awareness amongst the public, the NIHR Clinical Research Network West Midlands now has a social media presence.

We are asking all of our colleagues, if possible, to please follow and like us on Twitter and Facebook. The addresses are:

Twitter: @CRN_WMid

Facebook: www.facebook.com/CRNWMid 

Coventry University is leading the development of a new online and mobile resource for parents which will support them to make confident infant feeding choices, and support them with sustained breastfeeding and/or safe and responsive bottle feeding.

It is nearly 20 years since recruiting UK women to participate in the Million Women Study began. With continued funding from the Medical Research Council and Cancer Research UK, the study is providing answers to many questions relating to women’s health.

REACT (Relatives Education And Coping Toolkit) is an online peer-supported toolkit for relatives of people with psychosis or bipolar disorder which contains lots of information to help relatives, ideas of strategies to manage common problems, and stories from other relatives about their experiences.