News
Welcome to PETRA new sites
2/7/2017
Welcome to Kingston Hospital, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust who have joined the PETRA study.
Welcome to Isle of Wight and Sunderland
2/3/2016
Welcome to St Mary's Hospital, Isle of Wight and Sunderland Royal Hospital who are now recruiting participants for the PETRA study!
Welcome to Exeter and Northumbria!
12/17/2015
The PETRA study is now recruiting in Exeter and Northumbria.
PETRA study starts at St Thomas' in London
3/9/2015
PETRA is a prospective cohort study aiming to develop and validate a risk assessment tool for use in women with symptoms of threatened preterm labour (TPTL). We want to collect the results of fetal fibronectin tests and transvaginal USS cervical length measurements, as well as other risk factors.
INSIGHT study
9/2/2013
New study investigating biomarkers in prediction of preterm birth is about to start at St Thomas' Hospital, London.
POPPY study deadline for data entry 31st July 2013
7/9/2013
Results for the POPPY study will be analysed in August, so the deadline for data completion is 31st July!
POPPY study recruitment finishes.
2/5/2013
POPPY study recruitment finished on 31st January 2013. We have 1215 recruits, so well done everyone, and thank you to all the women who kindly agreed to take part.
1000th participant recruited to POPPY
11/12/2012
The 1000th participant was recruited to POPPY by Eirini Platsa at St Thomas' Hospital in London on Wednesday 7th November.
Congratulations and thanks to all for contributing to the achievement of this fantastic milestone.
Two new POPPY sites!
2/8/2012
Welcome to Suzanne and the team at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, and Patrick, Lucy and Julie at St Mary's on the Isle of Wight, who have recently received R&D approval for POPPY!
Welcome to Leighton Hospital, Crewe!
12/22/2011
We are delighted to welcome Leighton Hospital, Crewe, who have joined us on the POPPY study.
Portsmouth joins POPPY study
12/1/2011
We are delighted to welcome Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, who have joined us on the POPPY study.
Recruitment notice
10/21/2011
Hi everyone!Lets work extra hard to recruit to EQUIPP
over the next few weeks....everyone is
doing so well but we are still off our target!
Lets keep up the good work. Every
extra recruit helps. Thank you, Danielle.
University Hospital, Coventry to start POPPY study
9/12/2011
We are delighted to welcome University Hospital, Coventry who have joined us on the POPPY study.
west midd
1/6/2011
Excellent work everyone!Well done to West Middlesex for starting recruitment.
ucl
12/21/2010
Congratulations UCLH for starting!Keep up the good work everybody!
Update
12/10/2010
Well done QCH for getting started!Keep up the good work everyone and lets
see if we can reach 200 by Christmas!
Website launch
11/9/2010
Congratulations to Edinburgh for recruiting their first 5 patientsto EQUIPP! A big thanks to Jennifer, Sarah and Jane.
UCL and Queen Charlottes are due to start this week - Good luck!