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Welcome to Royal Cornwall Hospital, our 25th site who have recently opened to recruitment on the ALPHA trial. Welcome to Leicester Royal Infirmary, and NHS Fife now opened to recruitment.

More than 70 participants have been registered onto the trial so far – well done to everyone involved.

Welcome to Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust who opened to recruitment. BBC Look North (Yorkshire) features Dr Miriam Wittmann discussing the ALPHA trial – click the link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03tqv2c) to watch the full programme

Welcome to Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust who opened to recruitment. Well done to Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust and East Surrey Hospital who both recruited their first patient.

Welcome to East Surrey Hospital, Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Broadgreen hospital Liverpool, Salford Royal hospital and Royal Hallamshire Hospital (Sheffield), who all opened to recruitment.

Welcome to Guy’s & St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust who both opened to recruitment. Well done to Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust who randomised their first patient within one month of opening.

Well done to Royal London Hospital, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, Whiston hospital and NHS Tayside for all registering your first patient. Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and York hospital are all newly opened sites.

Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust has just opened on the ALPHA trial. Well done to James Cook University Hospital for registering your first patient.

Chapel Allerton hospital (Leeds), Harrogate District hospital, Whipps Cross University hospital (London) and Royal London Hospital now open. Newly opened sites at Royal Victoria hospital (Newcastle) and James Cook University hospital (Middlesbrough). Well done to Harrogate District hospital, James Paget University hospital and Whipps Cross University hospital for registering your first patient.

4 new sites open (St Lukes hospital, Bradford, Whiston Hospital, Ninewells hospital, Dundee, James Paget Hospital, Great Yarmouth). First participant randomised to the study. Well done to St Luke’s hospital, Bradford.