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

Current aPI

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary

In set-up

Bhaskar Ram

TBC

Addenbrookes Hospital

Yes

Matthew Smith

Nathan Creber

Thomas Hudson

Anna Kaleva

Charing Cross Hospital

Yes

Matthew Rollin

Mark Gabrawi

Benjamin Kennard

Countess of Chester Hospital

Yes

Todd Kanzara

Ahmed Yousef

Crosshouse Hospital

In set-up

Natasha Grimmond

Niall Woodley 

Fairfield & Oldham

In set-up

Melanie Dowling

Elliot Heward

Freeman Hospital

Yes

Nicholas Dawe

Phil Lindsey

Furness General Hospital

Interested

Salama Zewail

Sudip Ghosh

Glangwili Hospital, Carmarthen

Yes

Vinod Prabhu

Kirsty Davies

Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Yes

Ida Amir

Lucy Li

Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary

Yes

Nina Mistry

Jonathan Chan

Great Western Hospital, Swindon

Yes

Daniel Moualed

Sofia Anastasiadou

Guy's & St Thomas Hospital, London

Yes

Rosa Crunkhorn

Presanna Premachandra

Heartlands B'ham

In set-up

Jayesh Doshi

Neil McNiven

James Cook University Hospital

Yes

Anirvan Banerjee

Harry Tustin

James Paget University Hospital

Interested

Carl Philpott

Shyam Gokani

John Radcliffe Hospital

In set-up

Samuel MacKeith

Ayeshah Abdul-Hamid

Kettering General Northampton

Yes

Wendy Smith

Jack Constable

King's Mill Hospital

Yes

Paraskevi Tsirevelou

Ahmed Shehata

Leeds General Infirmary

Interested

Tom Wilson

Anand Goomany                       

Mahmoud Tanash                       

Leicester Royal Infirmary

Yes

Paramita Baruah

Vasim Modak

Manuela Cresswell

Lewisham Hospital

In set-up

Praneta Kulloo

Constantin Dirla

Lincoln County Hospital

Interested

Abdelrahman Ibrahim

Ahmed Bayoumi  

Lister Hospital, Stevenage

Yes

Ananth Vijendren

Catherine de Cates

Liverpool University Hospital, Aintree

Yes

Ahmed Youssef

Mohamed Fiala

Luton and Dunstable Hospital

In set-up

Pranay Singh

Laura Leach

William Wakeford

Manchester Royal Infirmary

Yes

Simon Lloyd

Amr Abdelhamid

Morriston Hospital

Yes

Paramesh Puttasidaiah

Richard Brown

Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton

Yes

Alistair Mitchell-Innes

TBC

New Cross Hospital

In set-up

James Barraclough

Lesley Peplow

Ninewells Hospital

Yes

Patrick Spielmann

Vanushia Thirumal

Anna Loroch

Poole Hospital

Yes

Emma King

Alex Dando

Princess Alexandra Hospital

Yes

Elina Kiverniti

Mohammed Bella

Princess Royal Hospital, Telford

In set-up

Andy Scott

TBC

QE Birmingham

Yes

Peter Monksfield

TBC

Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow

Yes

Georgios Kontorinis

Sarah Ellis

Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham

Yes

Priya Achar

Quentin Bonduelle

Rotherham General Hospital

In set-up

Miran Pankhania

Anas Eldahshan

Royal Berkshire Hospital

In set-up

Kaisa Konieczny

Melek Demirdag

Royal Blackburn Hospital

Yes

Surya Narayan

Devan Vora

Louay Salfity

Royal Bolton Hospital

Yes

Vikas Malik

Dillan Shetty

Royal Derby Hospital

Interested

Owen Judd

Simon Cole

Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital

Yes

Rupert Ricks

Louise Macleod

Claire Pekins

Jack Dovell

Royal Free Hospital

No

Noshin Siddiqi

Cheka Spencer

Royal Hallamshire Hospital

Yes

Jaydip Ray

Matthew Farr

Royal Lancaster Infirmary

Interested

Salama Zewail

Sudip Ghosh

Royal Stoke University Hospital

Interested

Sanjiv Kumar Bhimrao

Vikranth Vishwanathan

Royal United Hospitals Bath

Yes

Tom Mawby

Oliver Wright

Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast

No

Anna O'Kane

Mairead McFadden

Russells Hall Hospital

Interested

Neil Molony

Waqas Jamil

Salford Royal Hospital

Yes

Simon Freeman

Rejina Fameesh

Sandwell General Hospital, Birmingham

Yes

Yohanna Takwoingi

Reham Ali

Claire Lingard

St John's Hospital, Livingston

Yes

Alex Bennett

Louise McMurran

St Michaels Hospital, Bristol

Yes

Linnea Cheung

Ross Mercer

Southend University Hospital

In set-up

Aaron Trinidade

Ahmad Moinie

Stepping Hill Hospital Stockport

Yes

Milan Rudic

Shameena Shinaz

Viresh Arora

Sunderland Royal Hospital

In set-up

Asil Tahir

Peter Sudworth

Thomas Linacre Centre

Yes

Aravind Bheemacharya Madhwacharya

Mitanshi Luhana

University College London Hospital

Yes

Nischay Mehta

Ankit Patel

University Hospital Coventry

Yes

Emma Hoskison

Andrew Lotfallah

University Hospital Monklands, Airdrie

Yes

Arunachalam Iyer

Mahesh Jayalathge

Noah Evans Harding

Walsall Manor Hospital

Interested

Attila Dezso

Mantegh Sethi

Warwick Hospital

In set-up

Jameel Muzaffar

Jonathan Lee 

Dimitrios Spinos

Wexham Park Hospital

Yes

Ram Moorthy

TBC

Worcester

Interested

Sharifah Syed Badrol

TBC

Whipps Cross

Yes

Kiran Jumani

Noah Havers

Wrexham Maelor Hospital

Yes

Huw Jones

Lisa Williams

Wythenshawe Hospital

Yes

Sadie Khwaja

Avantie Khudan

Ysbyty Gwynedd Hospital, Bangor

In set-up

Senthil Rajamanickan

Faiza Ali

Recruitment table

The following sites are open for recruitment:

 

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

3

0

Royal Bolton

21-Jun-2023

Vikas Malik

Dillan Shetty

6

6

UCLH

21-Jun-2023

Nischay Mehta

Cillian Forde

57

2

Glangwili

30-Jun-2023

Vinod Prabhu

Kirsty Davies

7

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

5

2

Liverpool University

02-Aug-2023

Ahmed Youssef

Mohamed Fiala

0

0

Stepping Hill

07-Aug-2023

Milan Rudic

Shameena Shinaz

16

4

Thomas Linacre

07-Aug-2023

Aravind Bheemacharya Madhwacharya

Mitanshi Luhana

7

3

Royal Devon & Exeter

16-Aug-2023

Rupert Ricks

Claire Pekins

Jack Dovell

Mariachiara Giali

6

3

Queens Nottingham

18-Aug-2023

Priya Achar

Quentin Bonduelle

6

2

Gloucestershire

30-Aug-2023

Nina Mistry

Jonathan Chan

13

6

St Michaels, Bristol

21-Sep-2023

Linnea Cheung

Ross Mercer

15

0

Ninewells

27-Sep-2023

Patrick Spielmann

Vanushia Thirumal

Anna Loroch

4

3

Monklands

27-Sep-2023

Arunachalam Iyer

Mahesh Jayalathge

Noah Evans Harding

5

2

Royal Derby

27-Sep-2023

Owen Judd

Simon Cole

4

1

James Cook

02-Oct-2023

Anirvan Banerjee

Harry Tustin

2

0

Guys & St Thomas

02-Oct-2023

Rosa Crunkhorn

Presanna Premachandra

9

1

Charing Cross

09-Oct-2023

Matthew Rollin

Mark Gabrawi

Benjamin Kennard

0

0

Glasgow Royal Infirmary

12-Oct-2023

Ida Amir

Lucy Li

4

4

Addenbrookes

24-Oct-2023

Matthew Smith

Nathan Creber

Thomas Hudson

Anna Kaleva

9

4

Leicester Royal Infirmary

25-Oct-2023

Paramita Baruah

Vasim Modak

Manuela Cresswell

5

0

Musgrove Park Hospital

25-Oct-2023

Alistair Mitchell-Innes

TBC

3

0

Kings Mill

25-Oct-2023

Paraskevi Tsirevelou

Ahmed Shehata

3

1

Wythenshawe

30-Oct-2023

Sadie Khwaja

Avantie Khudan

13

0

Countess of Chester

30-Oct-2023

Todd Kanzara

Ahmed Yousef

2

1

Great Western Hospital, Swindon

09-Nov-2023

Daniel Moualed

Sofia Anastasiadou

0

0

Sandwell

16-Nov-2023

Yohanna Takwoingi

Reham Ali

4

4

Royal United Bath

21-Nov-2023

Tom Mawby

Oliver Wright

0

0

QE Birmingham

22-Nov-2023

Peter Monksfield

TBC

0

0

Royal Hallamshire

23-Nov-2023

Jaydip Ray

Matthew Farr

0

0

Wexham Park

30-Nov-2023

Ram Moorthy

TBC

0

0

Morriston

04-Dec-2023

Paramesh Puttasidaiah

Richard Brown

0

0

Whipps Cross

06-Dec-2023

Kiran Jumani

Noah Havers

3

0

QE Glasgow

11-Dec-2023

Georgios Kontorinis

Sarah Ellis

8

2

University Hospital Coventry

03-Jan-2024

Emma Hoskison

Andrew Lotfallah

3

1

Manchester Royal Infirmary

04-Jan-2024

Simon Lloyd

Amr Abdelhamid

0

0

Princess Alex

31-Jan-2024

Elina Kiverniti

Mohammed Bella

0

0

Wrexham Maelor Hospital

06-Feb-2024

Huw Jones

Lisa Williams

2

1

St John's Hospital, Livingston

01-Mar-2024

Alex Bennett

Louise McMurran

 

0

Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester

27-Mar-2024 Simon Freeman Rejina Fameesh   0

43

     

235

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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

 

We are working with ENT INTEGRATE, the UK ENT Trainee Research Network, on this study. Please visit their dedicated STARFISH website: https://entintegrate.co.uk/starfish.

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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