Information for participants

If you have consented to participate in the BLOC-ICH study, you should have received an information sheet explaining everything that will happen to you during the trial.

If you have lost your information sheet, you can ask your doctor or nurse for another one, or download a copy of the Participant Information Sheet (PDF).

For a more detailed overview of the study, you can download our protocol summary (PDF).

If you have any specific questions or concerns at any point during your participation, you can ask a member of your healthcare team or call the research team. See the contact for general questions about the study.

It is important that you remember that you can withdraw from this study at any point, without having to give a reason, and that this will not affect your care in any way.

Protecting your data

It is our responsibility to treat your data with absolute confidence.

All personal identifying information will be completely anonymised as soon as is it no longer needed, and all publications arising from this research will not contain any identifying information which could be linked back to any individual. Only delegated members of the research team will have access to personal information before anonymisation occurs.

Study data will be kept on an anonymised, password protected database, which will only be accessed by delegated members of the research team and monitoring committees from The University of Manchester, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and regulatory authorities for audit, inspection and monitoring purposes.

You can find out more about how we use your information here.

Get in touch

If you have any questions about participating in the study you should speak to your consultant stroke physician.

For any queries about the procedures involved in this study, please contact Sharon Hulme:

email: sharon.hulme@manchester.ac.uk
tel: 0161 206 5755