Feb

16
Issue
#21

EMPiRE
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The SALVO Newsletter

Study to assess cell-salvage in obstetrics
New staff

The Swansea SALVO research team sporting their welldeserved Trust award.

Meet the Swansea team!

Susan Williams (principal investigator) and Sharon Jones
(research midwife) at Singleton Hospital, introduce their
SALVO research team:
As a newly appointed Anaesthetic Consultant and
newly appointed Research Midwife to Singleton hospital,
running the SALVO project on a busy labour ward, which
had never undertaken such research before, was always
going to be a challenge. In March 2015 our team expanded
to include 2 additional research midwifes who job-share
a full time post, Helen Worrell and Trudy Smith. Despite
many obstacles and challenges to recruitment, which
are surely not unique to Singleton hospital, we have
maintained a good recruitment rate month on month.
This reflects the hard work of the research team and we
were delighted when Sharon Jones was recognised for
this by the ABMU Trust when we were joint winners of
the VIP Chairmans award for Research and Innovation
- Promoting Research, Engagement and application to
Practise.

Event update
We are currently planning to hold a SALVO conference
and collaborators meeting at the end of our grant
period (autumn 2016), where we hope to present some
outcomes as well as discuss future research in this area
with you. Stay tuned for more details!
Contact Details
Doris Lanz, Senior Trial Coordinator
Malika Barakat, Admin & Data Assistant
Email: salvo@qmul.ac.uk | Twitter: @kt_network #SALVOStudy

Were pleased to welcome James

Heighway, who has joined Doris
and Malika in the SALVO office this
month as data and admin assistant.
James has previously worked in
antenatal screening here at Queen
Mary University of London. He will
also be in touch with you regarding data submission in
queries. Welcome, James!
In sadder news, we will have to
say goodbye to Sarah Weist, our
lead midwife, soon Sarah will
be leaving the team at the end of
March Many thanks for all your
hard work, great team spirit and
your invaluable support to the
study team and the sites!

News from finance

Our financial guidelines have changed this month: all
invoices for payments now need to have a Purchase
Order number allocated by us. Please get in touch with
us before raising any invoices.

Teleconferences
Here are new dates for next years site teleconferences
for your diary we hope you can dial in:

Friday 11th March 2016, 10.00 11.00am

Friday 15th April 2016, 10.00 11.00am
Friday 13th May 2016, 10.00 11.00am
Friday 17th June 2016, 10.00 11.00am

Phone: 020 7882 5636 Ext.6694

Womens Health Research Unit,
Centre for Primary Care & Public Health
Blizard Institute, Yvonne Carter Building, 58 Turner Street, London, E1 2AB

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16
Issue
#21

The SALVO Newsletter

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Study to assess cell-salvage in obstetrics

Recruitment update
As of 31st January 2016, our total recruitment to SALVO was 2904, with 89 women recruited this month you are all just
unstoppable, arent you? Well done also for recruiting 11 elective patients with malplacentation, up from last month! Can
we get this up to 15 in March?

January top recruiters

Congratulations to Sunderland who retained the top spot with 13 patients recruited. Swansea came second with 12
patients, and well done also to Royal Stoke, who came in third with 10 patients last month!

Salvo Sites

January
2016
recruitment

Monthly
recruitment rate
since 1.4.2014

Total
recruitment
since 1.4.2014

Total
recruitment
since start of
study

Sunderland Royal Hospital

13

9.4

211

356

James Cook University Hospital

7.7

171

202

Singleton Hospital, Swansea

12

6.9

155

156

Barts Health, London

6.1

136

229

Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle

5.7

128

225

Hinchingbrooke Hospital

5.4

120

155

Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield

4.3

96

268

Royal United Hospital, Bath

4.2

93

169

Royal Stoke University Hospital

10

3.9

87

143

Whiston Hospital

3.5

39

39

Queen's Hospital Romford

2.7

61

114

West Middlesex University Hospital

2.7

61

96

Simpsons Centre, Edinburgh

2.6

57

97

Croydon University Hospital

1.6

36

87

Leicester University Hospitals

1.2

27

161

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

1.2

27

85

St Michael's Hospital, Bristol

1.2

27

41

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital

0.8

Derriford Hospital, Plymouth

0.7

16

114

Northwick Park Hospital

0.4

10

29

Contact Details
Doris Lanz, Senior Trial Coordinator
Malika Barakat, Admin & Data Assistant
Email: salvo@qmul.ac.uk | Twitter: @kt_network #SALVOStudy

Phone: 020 7882 5636 Ext.6694

Womens Health Research Unit,
Centre for Primary Care & Public Health
Blizard Institute, Yvonne Carter Building, 58 Turner Street, London, E1 2AB