Helping you understand Glasgow Memory Clinic
Browse the questions below, if you have any further questions please get in contact with us.
What are the current clinical trials at Glasgow Memory Clinic?
You can view our current studies here.
What are the opening hours of Glasgow Memory Clinic?
The opening hours are 8.30am to 5.00pm (Mon to Thu) and 8.30am to 3pm on a Friday.
What should I do if I want to cancel or change my appointment?
Contact us on 0141 948 0206 or email info@glasgowmemoryclinic.com as soon as you can.
Once I have submitted an enquiry or completed a pre-screening questionnaire, what are the next steps?
A member of our patient liaison team will get in touch with you – this is usually within two to three business days. On occasions if there has been an increase in response to our advertising the team may take longer to respond however please be assured we will contact you as soon as we can. If you don’t hear from us within this time, please contact us on 0141 948 0206 or email info@glasgowmemoryclinic.com
What are the main benefits of taking part in a clinical trial at Glasgow Memory Clinic?
- Access to promising new treatments often not available outside the clinical-trial setting.
- Treatment that may be more effective than the standard approach.
- Close monitoring, advice, care, and support by a research team of doctors and other health care professionals who understand your disease or condition.
- The opportunity to be the first to benefit from a new method under study.
- The chance to play an active role in your own health care and gain a greater understanding of your disease or condition.
- The chance to help society by contributing to medical research. Even if you don’t directly benefit from the results of the clinical trial you take part in, the information gathered can help others and adds to scientific knowledge. People who take part in clinical trials are vital to the process of improving medical care.
For many, the hope of personal health benefit is their main or only reason for taking part. This might include getting a new drug or treatment they thought might help them; learning more about their condition; being screened (hoping either to be reassured or to get an early diagnosis); the chance of getting access to care they felt would be better or more specialised; or faster access to care. Some people added that they took part for their own interest or curiosity.
Most of us have in some way benefited from research without necessarily realising it (e.g. by taking medical drugs, benefiting from the use of certain equipment, being treated in a certain way or being in certain environment). People who take part in dementia research are contributing towards the care, treatment and wellbeing of countless numbers of people who have dementia, as well as others who may develop it at some time in the future. They may have varied reasons for wanting to be involved in research and different expectations about what it might bring.