The NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme invites research proposals on the following areas:

•  Immunisation of Children and Young People Looked After By the State
•  Feasibility of psychosocial interventions for preventing blood borne virus infection in people who inject drugs
•  Peer support for breastfeeding maintenance
•  A prognostic tool to aid clinical management decisions in acute ankle sprain
•  Prognostic models for people with advanced cancer
•  Suspected acute pulmonary embolism in pregnancy
•  Mechanical Insufflation-Exsufflation devices for assisted cough in neuromuscular disease
•  Early pulmonary rehabilitation after an exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
•  Interventions to enhance engagement in exercise referral schemes
•  Non-neuroleptic mood stabilising medication for challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual disability

The deadline for submission of outline proposals is 29 August 2013 by 1pm.