Recruitment and participating centres

The STARFISH trial began recruitment in June 2023

Participating centres with current Principal Investigator (PI) and Associate PI (aPI)

Site

Site status

Current PI

Addenbrookes Hospital

Yes

Matthew Smith

Barnet Hospital

In set-up

Noshin Siddiqi

Charing Cross Hospital

Yes

Matthew Rollin

Countess of Chester Hospital

Yes

Todd Kanzara

Crosshouse Hospital

Yes

Natasha Grimmond

Fairfield & Oldham

Yes

Melanie Dowling

Freeman Hospital

Yes

Nicholas Dawe

Furness General Hospital

Yes

Salama Zewail

Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen

Yes

Vinod Prabhu

Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Yes

 

Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary

Yes

Nina Mistry

Great Western Hospital, Swindon

Yes

Daniel Moualed

Guy's & St Thomas Hospital, London

Yes

Rosa Crunkhorn

Heartlands B'ham

In set-up

Jayesh Doshi

James Cook University Hospital

Yes

Anirvan Banerjee

John Radcliffe Hospital

In set-up

Samuel MacKeith

Kettering General Northampton

Yes

Wendy Smith

King's Mill Hospital

Yes

Paraskevi Tsirevelou

Leicester Royal Infirmary

Yes

Paramita Baruah

Leighton Crewe

Interested

TBC

Lewisham Hospital

Yes

Praneta Kulloo

Lister Hospital, Stevenage

Yes

Ananth Vijendren

Liverpool University Hospital, Aintree

Yes

Ahmed Youssef

Luton and Dunstable Hospital

Yes

Pranay Singh

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Yes

Simon Lloyd

Morriston Hospital

Yes

Paramesh Puttasidaiah

Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton

Yes

Alistair Mitchell-Innes

Ninewells Hospital

Yes

Patrick Spielmann

Northampton General

Interested

TBC

Northwick Park

Interested

TBC

Poole Hospital

Yes

Emma King

Princess Alexandra Hospital

Yes

Elina Kiverniti

Princess Royal Hospital, Telford

Yes

Andy Scott

QE Birmingham

Yes

Peter Monksfield

Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow

Yes

Georgios Kontorinis

Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham

Yes

Priya Achar

Royal Blackburn Hospital

Yes

Surya Narayan

Royal Bolton Hospital

Yes

Vikas Malik

Royal Derby Hospital

Yes

Owen Judd

Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital

Yes

Rupert Ricks

Royal Gwent

Interested

TBC

Royal Hallamshire Hospital

Yes

Jaydip Ray

Royal Lancaster Infirmary

Yes

Salama Zewail

Royal Stoke University Hospital

Interested

Sanjiv Kumar Bhimrao

Royal United Hospitals Bath

Yes

Tom Mawby

Russells Hall Hospital

Yes

Neil Molony

Salford Royal Hospital

Yes

Simon Freeman

Sandwell General Hospital, Birmingham

Yes

Yohanna Takwoingi

St John's Hospital, Livingston

Yes

Alex Bennett

St Michaels Hospital, Bristol

Yes

Linnea Cheung

Southampton

Interested

TBC

Southend University Hospital

Yes

Aaron Trinidade

Stepping Hill Hospital Stockport

Yes

Milan Rudic

Sunderland Royal Hospital

Yes

Asil Tahir

Thomas Linacre Centre

Yes

Aravind Bheemacharya Madhwacharya

University College London Hospital

Yes

Nischay Mehta

University Hospital Coventry

Yes

Emma Hoskison

University Hospital Monklands, Airdrie

Yes

Arunachalam Iyer

Wexham Park Hospital

Yes

Ram Moorthy

Worcester

Interested

Sharifah Syed Badrol

Whipps Cross

Yes

Kiran Jumani

Wrexham Maelor Hospital

Yes

Huw Jones

Wythenshawe Hospital

Yes

Sadie Khwaja

Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital, Bangor

Yes

Senthil Rajamanickan

Recruitment table

The following sites are open for recruitment:

As of 19th December 2024:

Site

Date opened

PI

aPI

Total no. screened

Randomised

Kettering

21-Jun-2023

Wendy Smith

Jack Constable

0

0

Lister

21-Jun-2023

Ananth Vijendren

Catherine de Cates

8

0

Royal Bolton

21-Jun-2023

Vikas Malik

Dillan Shetty

9

7

UCLH

21-Jun-2023

Nischay Mehta

Cillian Forde

116

4

Glangwili

30-Jun-2023

Vinod Prabhu

Kirsty Davies

32

3

Royal Blackburn

30-Jun-2023

Surya Narayan

Devan Vora

Louay Salfity

4

0

Freeman

21-Jul-2023

Nicholas Dawe

Phil Lindsey

4

2

Poole

25-Jul-2023

Emma King

Alex Dando

20

2

Liverpool University

02-Aug-2023

Ahmed Youssef

Mohamed Fiala

6

0

Stepping Hill

07-Aug-2023

Milan Rudic

Shameena Shinaz

27

5

Thomas Linacre

07-Aug-2023

Aravind Bheemacharya Madhwacharya

Mitanshi Luhana

18

6

Royal Devon & Exeter

16-Aug-2023

Rupert Ricks

Claire Pekins

Jack Dovell

Mariachiara Giali

25

5

Queens Nottingham

18-Aug-2023

Priya Achar

Quentin Bonduelle

19

4

Gloucestershire Royal

30-Aug-2023

Nina Mistry

Jonathan Chan

17

7

St Michaels, Bristol

21-Sep-2023

Linnea Cheung

Ross Mercer

21

0

Ninewells

27-Sep-2023

Patrick Spielmann

Vanushia Thirumal

Anna Loroch

16

5

Monklands

27-Sep-2023

Arunachalam Iyer

Mahesh Jayalathge

Noah Evans Harding

8

3

Royal Derby

27-Sep-2023

Owen Judd

Simon Cole

5

1

James Cook

02-Oct-2023

Anirvan Banerjee

Harry Tustin

2

0

Guys & St Thomas

02-Oct-2023

Rosa Crunkhorn

Presanna Premachandra

57

6

Charing Cross

09-Oct-2023

Matthew Rollin

Mark Gabrawi

Benjamin Kennard

2

0

Glasgow Royal Infirmary

12-Oct-2023

Ida Amir

Lucy Li

10

4

Addenbrookes

24-Oct-2023

Matthew Smith

Nathan Creber

Thomas Hudson

Anna Kaleva

31

13

Leicester Royal Infirmary

25-Oct-2023

Paramita Baruah

Vasim Modak

Manuela Cresswell

40

4

Musgrove Park Hospital

25-Oct-2023

Alistair Mitchell-Innes

TBC

22

1

Kings Mill

25-Oct-2023

Paraskevi Tsirevelou

Ahmed Shehata

4

1

Wythenshawe

30-Oct-2023

Sadie Khwaja

Avantie Khudan

48

1

Countess of Chester

30-Oct-2023

Todd Kanzara

Ahmed Yousef

8

4

Great Western Hospital, Swindon

09-Nov-2023

Daniel Moualed

Sofia Anastasiadou

1

1

Sandwell

16-Nov-2023

Yohanna Takwoingi

Reham Ali

Claire Lingard

16

10

Royal United Bath

21-Nov-2023

Tom Mawby

Oliver Wright

0

0

QE Birmingham

22-Nov-2023

Peter Monksfield

TBC

12

0

Royal Hallamshire

23-Nov-2023

Jaydip Ray

Matthew Farr

0

0

Wexham Park

30-Nov-2023

Ram Moorthy

Hasan Segana

7

2

Morriston

04-Dec-2023

Paramesh Puttasidaiah

Richard Brown

6

3

Whipps Cross

06-Dec-2023

Kiran Jumani

Noah Havers

11

1

QE Glasgow

11-Dec-2023

Georgios Kontorinis

Sarah Ellis

8

2

University Hospital Coventry

03-Jan-2024

Emma Hoskison

Andrew Lotfallah

14

3

Manchester Royal Infirmary

04-Jan-2024

Simon Lloyd

Amr Abdelhamid

10

2

Princess Alex

31-Jan-2024

Elina Kiverniti

Mohammed Bella

7

2

Wrexham Maelor Hospital

06-Feb-2024

Huw Jones

Lisa Williams

8

5

St John's Hospital, Livingston

01-Mar-2024

Alex Bennett

Louise McMurran

3

3

Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester

27-Mar-2024 Simon Freeman Rejina Fameesh 3 0

Luton & Dunstable

01-May-2024 Prabay Singh

Laura Leach

William Wakeford

3 0

Furness General

20-May-2024 Salama Zewail Sudip Ghosh 4 0

Royal Lancaster

20-May-2024 Salama Zewail Sudip Ghosh 0 0

Unversity Hospital Lewisham

21-May-2024 Praneta Kulloo Constantin Dirla 0 0

Royal London

23-May-2024 Kiran Jumani Meng Yip 5 1

Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor

23-May-2024 Senthil Rajamanickan Faiza Ali 8 4

Princess Royal

03-Jun-2024 Andy Scott Karamveer Narang 0 0

Sunderland Royal Hospital

08-Jul-2024 Asil Tahir Peter Sudworth 9 1

Crosshouse Hospital

28-Aug-2024 Natasha Grimmond Niall Woodley 3 3

Southend 

26-Sep-2024 Aaron Trinidade   0 0

Fairfield General Hospital

08-Oct-2024 Melanie Dowling Rachel Edminson 0 0

Oldham Hospital

08-Oct-2024 Melanie Dowling Rachel Edminson 0 0

Russells Hall Hospital

12-Nov-2024 Neil Molony  Behrad Barmayehvar 0 0

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Recruitment map and list of sites

STARFISH Recruitment Map

Includes a list of sites that have expressed an interest in the STARFISH trial.

Blue – Interested site

Yellow – Site in set-up

Green – Site open

What is needed to open the STARFISH trial at my hospital?

If your site is interested in joining STARFISH, please complete this feasibility form or visit this website for further details: https://entintegrate.co.uk/issnhl-rct.

You can find details of the national process for site set up on the HRA website, here: https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-and-improving-research/best-practice/nhs-site-set-up-in-england/ and https://www.myresearchproject.org.uk/help/hlpsitespecific.aspx

Before the trial can open at your centre, the following will need to be in place. All required documents and templates will be provided in the local information pack. Please contact the STARFISH trials office for your Local Information Pack.

  • Completed Organisation Information Document (OID)
  • A signed contract, based on the model Non Commercial Agreement. We will provide the template and populate it with your Trust details, as provided in the OID
  • Localised documents with the appropriate Trust header. You can send us your local site header and we will localise the documents accordingly
  • Delegation log with all research activities covered, signed off by the delegates and the PI
  • Confirmation of attendance at SIV and role-appropriate training for the STARFISH trial procedures (see Documents and Training page for further details)
  • A current (signed within the last 12 months) CV and confirmation of GCP training for the PI and Associate PI
  • Confirmation of capacity and capability for your site, usually provided by your Trust R&D department
  • In receipt of the Investigator Site File and study supplies. We will send this to you during the course of set up

 

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If your site is interested in joining STARFISH, please complete this feasibility form or visit this website for further details: https://entintegrate.co.uk/issnhl-rct.

 

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