Medical Research

You can volunteer to take part in research.

• if you're healthy,
• if you have one or more diagnosed medical conditions
• if want to find out more about your health risks, or
• if you want to volunteer to test new and developing treatments.

Your details are kept private to us the Register team. We send you invitations to take part in studies, over time.

What is involved in each study varies. Some studies can be done from home with no trips to HMRI. Others ask you to visit us at New Lambton, or a clinic somewhere else. You can help once, help sometimes, or volunteer for a study that continues over months or years.

Your information stays private to the HMRI Register team. When you get an invitation from us, you can opt-in, or say no.

It's OK to stay on the Register, get our newsletter, and keep in touch, even if you don't say yes to anything!

You could be asked to do things like:

• take a survey on the phone.
• visit us for tests or scans.
• road-test new technologies for measuring your heart, or how you move or how you think.
• donate blood for genetic research.
• take memory or concentration tests.
• take a device home and monitor your health over time.
• connect with researchers by videocall or messaging.
• choose to share information or tissue samples from routine healthcare that you needed in the health system.

If you say yes to an invitation, we connect you with the research team. Researchers are bound by privacy and confidentiality laws. We won't share your identity or health information, ever, without your consent.