This page provides an overview of the Be Part of Research website.
The site has been built on mobile principles to ensure that the content and searches work well on mobile, tablets and desktops.
Please use the drop down links on this page to understand more about
1. website design
2. the service
3. source feeds
Website Design
- Make it easy for people to find opportunities to take part in health research for any condition, across the UK
- Designed with user input and assurance from Government Digital Services, NHS Digital and NHSX
- Designed for easy use on mobile, tablet & desktop
About the Service
- The service provides an easy way to search for studies recruiting participants across the UK
- Public users are able to search for any condition themselves
- Health and care professionals can use it to support patients who ask about research
- Users can be reassured that only ethically approved studies appear on the site.
- This service replaced the UK Clinical Trials Gateway in May 2019 following extensive user feedback
Source Feeds
The service pulls any trials taking place at sites in the United Kingdom that are registered on one or both of either services listed above.
ISRCTN: The ISRCTN was set up to register clinical trials, provide each one with a unique identifying number, and make the registry records publicly accessible and searchable. ISRCTN was founded in response to calls for the registration of trials as a condition of publication in a journal, and also in response to the recognition that the results of many trials remain unpublished and, without registration, remain hidden from the scientific record.
ClinicalTrials.gov: ClinicalTrials.gov is a web-based resource that provides patients, their family members, health care professionals, researchers, and the public with easy access to information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies on a wide range of diseases and conditions. The website is maintained by the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Information on ClinicalTrials.gov is provided and updated by the sponsor or principal investigator of the clinical study. Studies are generally submitted to the website (that is, registered) when they begin, and the information on the site is updated throughout the study. In some cases, the results of the study are submitted after the study ends.