EMPiRE

TSC MeetingGoodbye Felipe,welcome Sarah!

Substantial Amendment

We recently said a sad farewell to Felipe and wish him all the best in his fantastic new role as Consultant Midwife at Whipps Cross Hospital. Thank you, Felipe, for your valuable contributions to the success of SALVO. We are sure that you will continue to promote SALVO at BartsHealth!We are delighted to introduce Sarah Weist, who started as our new Senior Research Midwife at the Royal London this week- welcome Sarah! Sarah is not new to SALVO - she was previously the SALVO research midwife based at Queens Hospital in Romford and so is in a great position to offer advice and support where required.

-> Sarah Weist, Salvo Senior Research Midwife

As you know we are hoping to approach women in the early stages of labour (0-4cm) who have not received trial information antenatally. The amendment is being reviewed by the trial

Sponsor - we will update you on the outcome of this.

Have you seen our newly designed Patient Information Sheet? This is currently being reviewed also as part of the amendment just mentioned.

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Collaborator’s Meeting

Don’t forget our Collaborator’s Meeting on Friday 3rd October which will take place at Barts Hospital, Smithfield, London. It will be starting with lunch at 12:30pm followed by an afternoon of interesting talks until 4pm. We are pleased to say a colleague from the WHO will be joining us to give a talk on caesarean section rates! Please let us know if you plan on attending, if you haven’t done so already. We can fund travel for two members of staff from each team and encourage all Principal Investigators to attend. See you there!

Thank you for your work involved in ensuring we are up to date with our data in preparation for our Trial Steering Committee Meeting which is taking place on Monday 15th September. We will update you on the outcomes of this meeting.

Dates for your Diaries• Site Teleconference - Friday 12th September

10:00 - 11:00• Collaborators Meeting - Friday 3rd October

12:30pm - 4pm (London)

Join us on TwitterCome follow us for general updates on progress with SALVO (using #salvostudy)

on the Katherine Twining Network Twitter page @KT_Network

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As on 31st August our total recruitment to SALVO was 1558! We have fallen a little behind on our overall target but now that the Summer holiday season is behind us we expect recruitment will pick up again. Despite many being on leave throughout August we still managed to recruit 48 participants- well done.

August Recruiter of the Month - Well done to our team at Sunderland who recruited 14 patients!!!

Recruitment Update

Salvo SitesAugust

Recruitment

MonthlyRecruitment Rate

(since 1.4.14)

TotalRecruitment (since 1.4.14)

Sunderland Royal Hospital 14 6.1 31

Royal United Hospital, Bath 4 4.7 24

Royal London Hospital 0 4.5 23

James Cook University Hospital 4 3.8 19

Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield 1 3.2 16

Singleton Hospital, Swansea 1 2.8 14

Simpson Centre, Edinburgh 7 2.6 13

Croydon University Hospital 1 2.4 12

Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle 3 2.4 12

St Michael's Hospital, Bristol 0 2.4 12

West Middlesex University Hospital 3 2.2 11

University Hospital of North Staffordshire 3 1.8 9

Queen's Hospital Romford 1 1.6 8

Torbay Hospital 2 1.6 8

Hinchingbrooke Hospital 0 1.4 7

Leicester University Hospitals 2 1.2 6

Derriford Hospital, Plymouth 1 1.0 5

Northwick Park Hospital 0 0.6 3

Nottingham University Hospitals 0 0.6 3

Whipps Cross University Hospital 1 0.6 3

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital 0 0.2 1

Birmingham Women's Hospital 0 0.0 0

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