February 2026 Recruitment Update

As of February OCTOPUS has a total of 705 participants randomised!

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

As of 23-February-26 there are 824 participants screened for Octopus and 705 randomised.

Check out the table below to see how each site is doing as of 23-Feb-2026:

Site Number Screened Number Randomised
UCLH(London) 222 196
Edinburgh 84 69
Cardiff 29 23
Southampton 91 65
Leeds 44 40
Sheffield 58 55
Belfast 81 71
Coventry 59 52
Poole 30 28
Cambridge 13 11
Nottingham 21 18
Newcastle 25 19
Morriston, Swansea 15 15
Bristol 23 19
Queen's Hospital (Romford) 22 19
Pinderfields (Mid Yorkshire) 2 1
Ipswich 2  1
Griffiths, AUSTRALIA 3 3
TOTAL 824 705

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