The PRINCIPLE Trial
Evaluating potential treatments for COVID-19 infection in older people.
Supporting the PRINCIPLE trial
An open letter to UK primary care - 22 June 2020
PRINCIPLE calls on the support of every GP, general practice, primary and social care professional in the country to support patient recruitment.
Every GP practice, out-of-hours provider and NHS 111 across the country can now contribute by identifying and signposting patients to the study. Please direct potential participants aged 50 and over with symptoms of COVID to selfscreen via the website (www.principletrial.org).
Notice about New Site Set Up
The PRINCIPLE trial has stopped accepting new GP sites for set up as the trial is now open to all patient directly regardless of their registered GP surgery.
To enable as many people as possible to benefit from the trial we are happy to work with all sites on promoting the trial.
A variety of media is available from posters and videos to scripted text and emails with instructions on how to send to patient lists.
The full list can be found here under signposting.
Any potential participants can be directed here. This will allow as many people as possible to learn about and join the trial.
Resources for recruiting GP practices
FAQs
For all practices.
This is a live document (google docs) with new additions being made as they come up.
PRINCIPLE Newsletters
Participant Information Sheets
Translated Participant Information Sheets
Trial documents
#PRINCIPLETrial media resources
If you are sharing on social media, feel free to use the hashtag #PRINCIPLETrial