Outline proposals for evaluation studies and trials are accepted on an ongoing basis, with an online web proposal form available on the HTA programme website at any time. Applications are considered four times a year.

The next cut-off deadline for proposals is 1pm on Thursday 7 October 2010.

A new NIHR HTA commissioned call for proposals is open. Further information about the type of proposals considered suitable and the assessment process can be obtained from the commissioning briefs.

The closing date for applications is 1pm on Thursday 30 September 2010

The focus of this call is research to prevent and reduce unplanned hospital admissions. The context is that of unscheduled care within health systems. Proposals are invited for primary research which examines the organisational behaviours, systems and relationships across boundaries required to prevent and reduce unplanned hospital admissions. We have identified four particular themes for research:
• The regulation or control of health systems for control of unplanned         admissions
• Commissioning for control of unplanned hospital admissions
• Acute care workload management
• Improvements in demand management that address increases in unplanned admissions
 
Applicants are asked to submit outline proposals for the above call by 1pm on Thursday 16 September 2010.

The NIHR SDO programme is seeking proposals for projects of up to 24 months duration and up to £300,000 in cost. The focus of the research is to fund secondary research studies, by which we mean research which sets out to use existing data rather than to collect new data through fieldwork.
 
Constraints are not placed on the nature, source or type of the existing data that research projects might seek to use – they could be qualitative and/or quantitative; held in electronic, paper or other forms; produced by NHS organisations or by other national bodies or professional bodies/groups; and in the public domain or privately held.
 
Applicants are asked to submit outline proposals for the above call by 1pm on Thursday 16 September 2010.

Projects will cost between £50,000 and £80,000 and take from six to nine months. This call for proposals is specifically for evidence syntheses and has three main purposes:
•         To respond to the research needs of NHS decision-makers by commissioning rapid evidence syntheses
•         To produce short research reports based on those evidence syntheses which will be easily accessible to research users in the NHS management with findings which are relevant.
•         To identify gaps in research knowledge of importance to the NHS management community to enable the programme to better target future research commissioning.
 
Applicants are asked to submit full proposals for the above call by 1pm on Thursday 16 September 2010.

The NIHR/DH invites Co-ordinating Editors of Cochrane Review Groups to nominate up to three new reviews or review updates, for awards of £5,000 to help facilitate and accelerate activity.

The closing date for applications is Friday 17 September 2010.

The NIHR Programme Development Grants invites proposals from research teams to undertake preparatory work that will position them to submit a successful Programme Grant for Applied Research application in a subsequent funding competition.  Funding of between £20k and £100k is available over a period of 6-18 months.  The closing date for applications is 25 October 2010.

The NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research Applications invites research proposals from leading research groups for a coherent series of related projects to tackle high priority health issues. Proposals should provide evidence to improve health outcomes in England through promotion of health, prevention of ill health, and optimal disease management (including safety and quality), with particular emphasis on conditions causing significant disease burden. Funding of up to £2m is available over a period of three to five years.

The deadline for submission of applications is 11 October 2010.

The NIHR RfPB Programme invites applications for applied research projects to provide benefit for NHS patients and other users of health and social care services. RfPB is a nationally co-ordinated funding stream for regionally commissioned research. Projects are funded up to 36 months in duration to a maximum of £250k.

The deadline for submission of applications 24 September 2010.

The NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR) invites full research proposals which demonstrate relevance and potential improvements for adult social care practice in England. The SSCR has five core research programmes:
- Preventing and reducing the need for adult social care
- Promoting choice and independence
- Balancing care and work
- Developing solutions to changing needs
- Delivering integrated services

Proposals need to consider the following:
- outcomes for people who use social care services and for their carers
- cost-effectiveness
- generalisability beyond the specific research site/context
- transferability into recommendations for practice
- an understanding of longer-term sustainability
- appropriate involvement of people who use social care, carers and practitioners in the proposed research.

Please note that application forms and guidance is available through the LSE’s Current Tender webpage, and can be accessed once you register via ‘Express interest’.

The closing date for applications is 12 August 2010.

The NIHR Public Health Research programme (PHR) invites outline research proposals in the following areas:

• Employer schemes to encourage walking or cycling to work.
• Interventions to prevent hazardous drinking of alcohol by school aged children and young people.

The closing date for applications is 23 August 2010, 1.00 pm.