The Health Informatics Team is a support service provided by a team of statisticians and health information specialists based in the Department of Public Health. When to seek advice The best time to start seeking advice is at the design stage.
Medical research is expensive and can be time consuming if mistakes are made in the early stages.
The study must be designed to take account of a number of issues, not of course losing sight of the overall research questions being addressed. You must think ahead and plan your study carefully. 52495 where the secretaries will take your details and pass these on to the most appropriate person who will then contact you to arrange an appointment. You will be contacted within 48 hours to arrange an appointment. Before an initial consultation it would be useful if you could summarise the aims of your research, together with any possible methodology, on one side of A4 and forward this to the department contact before your arranged consultation.