CO Funded Research Projects | Academic Bodies | Statutory Organisations | Charities

Since 2013 the Trust has provided funding to a wide range of academic bodies, statutory organisations, charities, voluntary groups, social housing associations, local authorities, and others that meet our chosen areas of focus for research.

Below you will find details of all our funded research projects, including final reports, where we have them.

Click here to read all the papers published following CORT-funded research projects.

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Completed Grant Awarded In Progress Ongoing

Year
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

Completed

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

2024

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust - Measuring Air Pollution from Ambulances (MAPA Pilot)

Delays to handover patients from ambulance crews to staff in Emergency Departments (ED) have become widespread. These patients receive care within amb ... Read more

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

2024

Screening for carbon monoxide exposure in patients with headache in the Emergency Department (EDCO-H)

Screening for carbon monoxide exposure in patients with headache in the Emergency Department (EDCO-H) Read more

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

2024

Reducing delays in Diagnosis of Carbon Monoxide exposure in the Emergency Department (EDCO-D)

Reducing delays in Diagnosis of Carbon Monoxide exposure in the Emergency Department (EDCO-D) Read more

University Hospital Aintree

2023

University Hospital Aintree - Extending the QIP for CO Diagnosis in ED

This project serves to expand the successful intervention that was developed using a standardised methodology at University Hospital Aintree (UHA) in ... Read more

Completed

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

2019

Screening for Carbon Monoxide Exposure in Emergency Departments (EDCO Extension Study)

Both acute and chronic carbon monoxide (CO) exposure can produce a wide variety of non-specific clinical features, all of which can mimic other pathol ... Read more

Completed

EDCO/St Georges, Tooting/University of Surrey/Cadent

2016

EDCO/St Georges, Tooting/University of Surrey/Cadent – Emergency Department Screening Study

Understand the number of patients presenting to emergency departments (EDs) with raised carboxyhaemoglobin (COHb) levels that could be caused by CO ex ... Read more