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University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) is part of a new national trial platform, launched towards the end of 2022, which aims to use pandemic lessons to help quickly find effective treatments for people hospitalised with severe flu.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust have launched a new initiative – utilising mobile research units (MRUs) to bring health research into the community.

A man with diabetes who has lost more than four stone since beginning a clinical trial of a drug says he feels “on top of the world”.

University Hospitals Plymouth is taking part in the ground-breaking HARMONIE study, evaluating the efficacy of an immunisation to protect babies from hospitalization due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

A revised approach to how emergency services respond to patients in motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) could help to save lives, according to new research.

A series of studies conducted by consultants at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust have revealed that not only are patients who become trapped when involved in a car accident more likely to die, but that there are also significant differences in injuries sustained according to age and sex.

Injured women are half as likely as men to receive the life-saving drug tranexamic acid (TXA) even though the treatment is equally effective regardless of sex, according to new research in the British Journal of Anaesthesia.

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust (UHP) is celebrating being top of the leader board as the highest recruiting large acute trust for commercial studies in the country.

A project to empower people with Parkinson’s disease to manage their care from home via pioneering technology has received a funding boost of nearly £500,000.

Patients with Parkinson’s disease are being given life-changing smart watches that allow doctors to remotely assess their condition in a pioneering project to revolutionise NHS care.