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Paediatric Research And Maternity (PRAM)

What is team PRAM?

PRAM - Paediatric Research And Maternity - are a team of midwives and children’s nurses working in research – delivering studies during pregnancy, in neonates and up to 18 years old.

Are you interested in taking part in Paediatric or Maternity research?

Would you like to know if there are any studies that you can join?

Please contact us on 01493 453856 or 452682 or email JPUH.Pram@jpaget.nhs.uk.

Meet the team

Lynsey Felton – Paediatric Clinical Research Nurse

Donna Griffiths – Paediatric Clinical Research Nurse

Tori Brown – Clinical Trials Research Midwife

Sandeep Thambi – Clinical Research Assistant

Amanda Ayers – Senior Clinical Research Nurse

Sarah Girling – Lead Research Setup Specialist

Information about some of our open studies
Photo taken in early 2025 to celebrate 10 years of GPPAD research – showing the team working on our maternity study INGR1D2
Celebrating 1000 recruits to INGR1D2

Our clinical research team have just passed a significant milestone in support of a national study to identify babies at risk of developing diabetes.

The James Paget is one of 17 hospitals across the country taking part INGRID2, a maternity study which screens newborn babies with the aim of identifying those that are genetically ‘high risk’ of developing type 1 diabetes, which affects 1 in every 250 children born in the UK every year.

Recently our team celebrated reaching their recruitment target of 1000 participants to the study. Read more via the blue button:

Research papers showing the findings of previous studies

You may be interested in reading more about some of the research projects the team have been involved in. 

Please follow the links below to read the research papers.