Research at Barts Health
Our ambition is to offer every patient the opportunity to take part in research.
Research at Barts Health
Help us shape healthcare research
We're inviting patients, carers, public contributors, and community members to complete a short online survey about experiences, trust, and involvement in research, and what matters most to local communities.
Your feedback will help shape our new Patient and Public Involvement, Engagement, and Participation (PPIEP) Strategy, ensuring research is relevant, accessible, and guided by the communities it serves.
Complete the survey
Your feedback will help shape our new Patient and Public Involvement, Engagement, and Participation (PPIEP) Strategy, ensuring research is relevant, accessible, and guided by the communities it serves.
Complete the survey
Research at Barts Health
The new treatment, trialled at Barts Health, could help patients live longer and reduce the chances of their disease returning.…
James Frith MP, minister for health innovation, visited St Bartholomew’s Hospital on Wednesday 21 October to see how we are delivering clinical trials faster for patients.…
Barts Health colleagues describe their journeys to becoming clinical academics, the challenges they’ve faced and what it has meant for their work with patients.…
The team at Royal London’s Haemophilia Centre has recruited the first patient in the world to the next stage of a clinical trial for Von Willebrand disease, the most common inherited bleeding …
Thousands of patients living with an incurable form of breast cancer will now be able to get a life-extending treatment on the NHS in England, following clinical trials carried out at Barts Health.…
We’re proud of our long history of carrying out world-class research.
This research drives improvements in treatments and the health care services we provide. We carry it out in partnership with organisations including Queen Mary University of London as part of Barts Life Sciences, the National Institute for Health Research and Barts Charity.
Our research strategy
Our Clinical Research Delivery Strategy (2026-2030+) sets out how we will make research part of everyday care, so that every patient has the opportunity to take part and every member of staff can contribute, whatever their role.
Organised around three themes (embed, accelerate and lead), our priorities include:
- embedding research equitably as a routine part of clinical care, increasing participation from our local, diverse communities and involving patients and the public in how research is designed and delivered
- expanding research across every hospital, specialty and profession, and beyond our hospitals into community, primary care and mental health settings across north east London
- growing early-phase and commercial research through infrastructure such as our new clinical research facility and the NIHR North East London Commercial Research Delivery Centre, giving patients earlier access to new treatments
- creating clear career pathways for our research workforce, including a new North East London Clinical Academic Academy with Queen Mary University of London
- simplifying and speeding up how we set up and deliver clinical trials
- building an integrated research ecosystem that brings together our NIHR Barts Biomedical Research Centre, Barts BioResource, data platform and partners
- showing the value research brings to patients, staff and the wider health system, and making sure it is financially and environmentally sustainable.
Our infrastructure
We work with other organisations to deliver our research strategy, and to ensure that people and patients have access to as many research opportunities as possible. These include the:
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Barts Biomedical Research Centre
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Barts Clinical Research Facility
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Commercial Research Delivery Centre: North East London
- Queen Mary University of London Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
We work very closely with the Joint Research Medical Office (JRMO). If you are a researcher or a member of staff with a question about research, the JMRO are always on hand to help out - either contact them centrally or contact a specific individual.
International Clinical Trials Day
International Clinical Trials Day 2026
Every year on 20 May, we mark International Clinical Trials Day - the anniversary of James Lind's 1747 scurvy study, widely recognised as the world's first controlled clinical trial. It is a moment to thank the patients who take part in research and trials every year, recognise the many teams of staff who make it all possible, and reflect on the huge impact these advancements have on people's lives.
Find out how clinical trials are changing lives
Research Matters 2025
Research Matters, an annual event hosted by Barts Health NHS Trust to celebrate International Clinical Trials Day, took place on Tuesday 20 May 2025. The theme was Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare and highlighted the groundbreaking work happening across Barts Health and Queen Mary University of London.
Get in touch
Whatever your question, please do get in touch.
Whether you have questions about taking part in research, want to know how you can help shape our research, need to know more about carrying out research or anything else, we're here to help.
Email the research engagement team
If you are a researcher or a member of staff with a question about research, please contact the Joint Management Research Office (JMRO).