Newcastle and Durham Universities together with NHS partners provide the Research Design Service (RDS) for the North East region. The RDS is managed from two centres: Newcastle University (north) and Durham University Queen's Campus (south) with Prof Elaine McColl (Newcastle) as Director and Prof James Mason (Durham) as Co-Director.

Please visit the RDS NE official web page here for further information.

Durham hub enquiries:
Rachel Pears (rds@durham.ac.uk), phone 0191 334 0826

Newcastle hub enquiries:
Alexandra Smith phone 0191 222 7567
Pauline Winship phone 0191 222 7372
(rds@newcastle.ac.uk)

Website: http://rds-ne.nihr.ac.uk/

The following pages explain more about the RDS:

• Purpose of the RDS
• How the RDS works
• Service availability
• History of the RDS

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