eSMARTOur partners

The University of Surrey

The University of Surrey is one of the UK's leading professional, scientific and technological universities with a world class research profile and a reputation for excellence in teaching and research.

In proportion to its size, Surrey has the third greatest proportion of its income from research grants and contracts of all the British Universities. A significant proportion of the Universities Research Grants come from a range of EU funding sources and at present, they have a portfolio of 158 funded EU projects, both as coordinator and beneficiary.

University of Athens

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens was founded in 1837 and is one of the biggest universities in the world in terms of the number of students and teaching staff of all ranks. Every year approximately 800 national European and international research programmes are managed by the university.

The Faculty of Nursing has a multidisciplinary approach bringing together scholars from the field of nursing, public health, medicine, biology, pharmacology, chemistry, sociology, psychology, health economics and health informatics.

It provides undergraduate and postgraduate education (master's and doctoral programs) including oncology and palliative care nursing. It has a wide experience in collaborative research with other university faculties and research centers, at European and international level.

Kings College London

King's College London is a research-led university based in the heart of London. It has more than 24,000 students from 150 countries and more than 6,100 employees.

The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery's mission is to deliver excellence in our educational and research provision to a standard that benchmarks favourably with the best schools internationally, attracting staff and students of the highest caliber.

Many of their research programmes benefit from our close relationship with the other organisations in the King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre, so that world-class research, teaching, and clinical practice are brought together for the benefit of patients.

University College Dublin

As the largest and oldest University School of Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland, University College Dublin plays a leading role in the development of nursing and midwifery education, practice and research.

Their undergraduate programmes provide entry to general nursing, psychiatric nursing, children's nursing, and midwifery.

The School has an active research unit incorporating funded and graduate research on a number of key areas including older people, nursing and midwifery history, maternal and child health, cancer, clinical specialties and health systems. It has a collaborative and partnership approach to research and our research partnerships are interdisciplinary and incorporate academic and clinical partners.

University of California, San Francisco

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is considered one of the nation's premier health sciences teaching, training, research, and care centres. Each year, it receives $764 million, with $620 million from public sources, in research grants. The University houses three Nobel laureates, 34 members of the National Academy of Science, and 72 members of the Institute of Medicine.

The collaboration for eSMART is part of the Oncology Symptom Management Research Group (OSMRG) within the School of Nursing. It's an interdisciplinary research team focused on an evaluation of phenotypic and genotypic predictors of common symptoms experienced by patients undergoing cancer treatment.

European Cancer Patient Coalition

Established in 2003, the European Cancer Patient Coalition is the voice of the European cancer patient community, uniquely representing the interests of all cancer patient groups from the major to the rarer cancers.

ECPC was established to represent the views of cancer patients in the European healthcare debate and to provide a forum for European cancer patients to exchange information and share best practice experience.

Medical University of Vienna

Excellent research work of outstanding quality makes the Medical University of Vienna one of the world's leading medical universities. It's the largest and longest-standing medical research institution in Austria.

It's also one of the most important top-level research institutions in Europe, providing Europe's largest hospital, the AKH in Vienna, with all its medical staff.

Sykehuset Innlandet Hospital

Sykehuset Innlandet is a highly specialised hospital trust in charge of extensive regional and local hospital assignments, and the provision of high-quality services for the citizens of Hedmark and Oppland Counties. This involves advanced patient treatment, research and trial treatments and the provision of advice and education at an international level.

The hospital trust operates at 42 locations in Hedmark and Oppland, including six general hospitals, two psychiatric hospitals, several psychiatric centres (DPS), child and adolescent psychiatric clinics (BUP) and habilitation and rehabilitation units.

Sykehuset Innlandet is involved in many international research projects/activities in several clinical fields and also in the cancer field. The patient recruiting hospital, Lillehammer typically recruits 4-5 new cancer patients per week.

NHS24

NHS 24 is a Special Health Board providing and facilitating the development of national telehealth and telecare services across Scotland and is directly accountable to Scottish Ministers.

The Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare (SCTT) is part of NHS24 and has been established by the Scottish Government to provide practical advice and support to Health Boards, Local Authorities and other key stakeholders across Scotland as they seek to realise the potential of digital health and care services.

DOCOBO

Established in 2001 from a pan-European consortium of clinicians and technologists, DOCOBO is a UK-based provider of innovative solutions for the management of patients with long-term conditions in their homes who design, develop, manufacture and implement complete Telehealth and Community Care systems, products and services to enable independent living.

DOCOBO systems cover end-to-end management support starting with predictive risk stratification, and a range of medical devices for remote home monitoring. The system is easily adapted to specific user needs outside of the established care protocols and services can be easily be configured to meet specific local needs.

University of Dundee

The University of Dundee has an international reputation in research in medicine and life sciences.

The Medical School is ranked 5th in the UK according to the Guardian University Guide.

The Medical Research School provides a high-quality research and training environment for more than 500 scientists and clinicians based on the Ninewells Hospital & Medical School campus and hosts the Tayside Clinical Trials Unit. It's also the lead organisation for the MRC e-Health Informatics Research Centre. The statistical component of the eSMART trial is led by Professor Peter Donnan who is an internationally recognised clinical trials expert.