Surgical Trials

It's been another good week for SCOOTT recruitment - congratulations to the teams at @EKHUFT, @WWLNHS and @UHDBTrust who have all randomised patients!👏 This takes us to 191 participants - please don't forget that there is a prize for the site who recruits the 200th!🌟

Congratulations to the teams at @UHDBTrust, @CDDFTNHS and @SouthTees who have all randomised patients this week!👏🎉 We have now recruited 178 participants to the trial, and are pleased to announce that the site who recruits the 200th participant will receive a special prize!🌟

We have had another first SCOOTT randomisation today! Congratulations to the team at @ROHNHSFT who recruited and randomised their first participant to the trial!🥳 @YorkTrialsUnit

Huge congratulations to the teams at @CDDFTNHS and @ChelwestFT who both randomised their first SCOOTT participants today!🎉🎉 @YorkTrialsUnit

Congratulations to the teams at both @UHDBTrust and @RotherhamNHS_FT who have each recruited two participants to the trial so far this week! Great work!👏 @YorkTrialsUnit

👍 WHAT IS THE MOST EFFECTIVE TREATMENT FOR BASAL OSTEOARTHRITIS OF THE THUMB? 📚 Read the full paper here! #Osteoarthritis #Thumb #Orthopedics #Surgery ow.ly/kL1A50Y1JzT

A very important study now followed up to five years with clear recommendations for clinical practice. #ScaphoidWaist #Fracture #Wrist #UK @YorkTrialsUnit @Oxford_Trauma boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.130…

This longer-term evidence further corroborates the recommendation that patients with a scaphoid waist fracture displaced by 2 mm or less should initially be treated with cast immobilization. #Surgery #Wrist #Fracture @YorkTrialsUnit @Oxford_Trauma ow.ly/gmWw50XW3QJ

The SCOOTT team will be at the BSSH in Birmingham on Thursday and Friday. Please come and say hello if you are there!

We have now hit our pilot recruitment target of 134!🎯🎉Huge congratulations to the team at @SouthTees who recruited our 134th participant! A big thank you to all sites for all your hard work on the trial so far - smashing this target has been a huge team effort👏 @YorkTrialsUnit

Congratulations to the team at @SouthTees who recruited a further participant to the trial today!👏 This takes our recruitment total to 130, meaning that there are only 4 more participants to go until we hit our pilot recruitment target of 134!🎯🏆 @YorkTrialsUnit

READ ALL ABOUT IT! The FLARE trial's protocol paper has been published 👏👏 Well done team! A link to the paper is available here: bit.ly/3WPQ1jz @mattdgardiner @JCRWormald @ACeS_SouthTees @YorkTrialsUnit @Surgery_Trials @Lisa_Newington @ryckiewade @jennifercelane

Congratulations and welcome to the team at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust @RoyalSurrey who opened today!👏 Wishing you all the best with your recruitment!🎉 @YorkTrialsUnit

Congratulations to the teams at @MTWnhs and @OUHospitals who both randomised their first SCOOTT patients today! Excellent work!👏👏 Additionally, congratulations to the team at @RotherhamNHS_FT who also randomised a patient today!👏 @YorkTrialsUnit

Delighted to say that the DIDACT protocol has now been published in @BoneJointOpen 🎉 boneandjoint.org.uk/Article/10.130… @YorkTrialsUnit @hpsinghjk1 @NIHRresearch

A big welcome to the team at University Hospital Southampton @UHSFT who have opened to recruitment today! Congratulations!🎉 @YorkTrialsUnit

Another big welcome and congratulations to the team at County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust @CDDFTNHS who have opened today! Happy recruiting!🎉@YorkTrialsUnit

We are nearing the end of the SCOOTT pilot phase (end of November) so we are on the final push to smash our pilot recruitment target of 134🎯 We are currently on 121 participants and there will be a special prize for the site team who recruits the 134th!✨ @YorkTrialsUnit

What an amazing start to the month so far on the SCOOTT Trial!🌟 Congratulations to the team @ESNEFT who recruited 5 participants to the trial on Monday and the teams at both @UHDBTrust and @EKHUFT who have each recruited 2 participants to the trial today!!🎉 Thank you to all.

A huge congratulations to the team at @EKHUFT for recruiting our 100th SCOOTT Trial Participant today!🎉 Thank you so much to all the site teams who have helped us to get to this stage - we really appreciate all your hard work👏@YorkTrialsUnit