March 2026 Recruitment Update

As of March OCTOPUS has a total of 736 participants randomised!

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

As of 31-March-26 there are 875 participants screened for Octopus and 736 randomised.

Check out the table below to see how each site is doing as of 31-March-26:

Site Number Screened Number Randomised
UCLH(London) 236 205
Edinburgh 86 70
Cardiff 33 24
Southampton 95 67
Leeds 45 40
Sheffield 61 57
Belfast 84 73
Coventry 62 55
Poole 31 29
Cambridge 13 11
Nottingham 21 18
Newcastle 31 19
Morriston, Swansea 15 15
Bristol 27 22
Queen's Hospital (Romford) 26 23
Pinderfields (Mid Yorkshire) 2 2
Ipswich 3  2
Griffiths, AUSTRALIA 3 3
TOTAL 875 736

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