Clinical effectiveness of a child-specific dynamic stretching programme, compared to usual care, for ambulant children with cerebral palsy. @NIHRresearch funded
🌸 April updates from @TheSPELLStudy & @TheROBUSTStudy 🌸
🧹 Spring cleaning time! ISFs, CVs & GCPs!
📅 Site Investigator Meeting – 5 June
👏 Shoutout to Laine Donington
📊 Recruitment: SPELL 238 | ROBUST 174
Let’s keep the momentum going! 💪
#ClinicalResearch#NIHR
🎉 Big news for SPELL & ROBUST! 🎉
✅ Recruitment extensions APPROVED!
📅 New end dates:
🔹 SPELL – 31Dec2026
🔹 ROBUST – 28Feb2027
We’re in the final stretch — let’s keep the momentum going! 💪
Plus:
👩⚕️ API Scheme
📊 Recruitment
💬 Our WhatsApp group
help us hit our targets!
Our Feb 2026 Newsletter is out now! 🎉
Inside this issue:
🔎 Safety reporting tips
📝 Updates to the e-delegation log
✅ Helpful form & consent guidance
👋 A warm welcome to our newest ROBUST site!
@TheSPELLStudy@TheROBUSTStudy
🎁 Watch out for our December updates from @TheSPELLStudy & @TheROBUSTStudy!
🎄 Christmas message from the team!
🔍 2024 overview
🚀 2025 plans & 2026 predictions
❓ Withdrawal form FAQs & more
Read now 👉
🎉 @TheSPELLStudy & @TheROBUSTStudy November newsletter drop!
✔️ 200 participants reached in SPELL
✔️ Questionnaire optimisation updates
✔️ Our second anonymous shoutout
✔️ Plus more from SPELL & ROBUST
Catch up here 👇
🎃Happy October Everyone!🎃 Check out our spooooky @TheSPELLStudy and @TheROBUSTStudy
Oct25 Newsletter! 👻
Check it out:
🖥️ Remote Consent & how it works!
📢 Our 1st anonymous shout-out
🫶…& loads more exciting stuff - come and take a look!
🌍Today is World Cerebral Palsy Day! A great time to celebrate all of the children, physios and researchers making the @TheSPELLStudy possible. A fantastic team effort to build the evidence base for physiotherapy for children with CP. #WorldCerebralPalsyDay
☀️Sun’s out.. & so is @TheSPELLStudy and @TheROBUSTStudy Aug25 newsletter! ⛱️
Check it out👇
🏆 OCTRU Joint Trials of the Year - we won!
💡 Best practice tips
🎉 3 sites made their 1st recruits this month – fantastic work! 👏
…& lots more - take a read in the sunshine🌻
🎉Major win for the @TheSPELLStudy & @TheROBUSTStudy team, who have won @OCTRUctu Joint Trials of the Year! 💫
Incredible recognition for all the hard work - so proud to be part of such a dedicated & inspiring team.🤗
👏A big thank you & well done to all our amazing sites too!
Is it June already?🙀 Better check out our June Newsletter! ☀️📷@TheSPELLStudy@TheROBUSTStudy
There's so much to catch up on, including:
💬What happened at our Site Investigator Meeting
📈Isle of Wight reaching recruitment targets
🥳Celebrating ROBUST hit 100 participants!