April 2026 Recruitment Update

As of April OCTOPUS has a total of 760 participants randomised!

Thank you to all sites for maintaining such a good rate of recruitment!

As of 27-Apr-26 there are 893 participants screened for Octopus and 760 randomised.

Check out the table below to see how each site is doing as of 27-Apr-26:

Site Number Screened Number Randomised
UCLH(London) 241 211
Edinburgh 86 71
Cardiff 33 28
Southampton 100 69
Leeds 46 40
Sheffield 62 58
Belfast 85 75
Coventry 62 56
Poole 32 30
Cambridge 13 11
Nottingham 21 18
Newcastle 32 22
Morriston, Swansea 15 15
Bristol 29 25
Queen's Hospital (Romford) 26 23
Pinderfields (Mid Yorkshire) 2 2
Ipswich 3 2
Griffiths, AUSTRALIA 3 3
TOTAL 893 760

Octopus is funded by the MS Society with supported funding from MS Australia and MSWA for the Australian extension Platypus