The purpose of the INTACT-2 study is to test if two treatments – iron (infused into the veins) and a man-made version of a hormone normally produced by the body (recombinant EPO, given as an injection under the skin) – can successfully treat anaemia and improve physical aspects of health-related quality of life, in patients after they leave ICU. Chief Investigator: Dr David M Griffith Number and location of participating sites / geographical scope (by region/ country): UK 25 sitesEudraCT number: N/AISRCTN number: ISRCTN20195735 Funder: NIHR / MRC Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Start and End dateOf grant award: August 2024Of recruitment: May 2025 Current Status: Open to Recruitment UK GDPR privacy statement: Information can be found in our Patient Information Sheets. You can find out more about how we use your information:at www.hra.nhs.uk/patientdataandresearchby asking one of the research teamby sending an email to the Data Protection Officer: dpo@ed.ac.uk Sponsor: ACCORD, Usher Building, The University of Edinburgh, 5-7 Little France Road, Edinburgh BioQuarter - Gate 3, Edinburgh EH16 4UX http://accord.scot/ Chief Investigator: David M Griffith, Centre for Population Health Sciences, The Usher Institute, Usher Building, The University of EdinburghBioQuarter, Gate 5-7, 3 Little France Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4UX Email: INTACT2.trial@ed.ac.uk ECTU Involvement: Trial management / Statistics / Health Economics / Database and randomisation service provision (UKCRC)Co-enrolment between INTACT-2 and the following studies has been agreed: ABBRUPT, CAMELOT, CoReCCT - Awake Prone, NAVA, Protect airways and Release arms, ERASER, FRECyl-D, GenOMICC, GuARDS, IMPRoVE, INFINIT, MAP-ALF, MOSAICC, REMAP CAP, ROMEO, SepTIC, SHORTER, T4P, TraFFIC, TRAITS, AROMA-2, ASICS-II, BathMAT, REACT-SHOCK, VIKI and WISDOM This article was published on Wednesday 5 February 2025