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05 June 2020
Fiona Yelnoorkar is Lead Midwife at the Clinical Research Network North East North Cumbria, and is responsible for the management of NIHR specialties including Reproductive Health and Childbirth (RH&C). Fiona writes about her experiences redeployed to support the recruitment of pregnant women as part of the COVID-19 research team at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
01 June 2020
Lauran O’Neill is a Senior Research Nurse in Great Ormond Street Hospital’s (GOSH) critical care research team. She’s worked at GOSH for around 15 years in total but has never been busier and prouder of her colleagues than in the last six weeks. This is her experience of COVID-19 so far.
21 May 2020
Martin Hunt, Programme Director of NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i), writes about the i4i Challenge Award on Real World Implementation to support design and delivery evaluations of medtech innovations in real-world healthcare settings.
15 May 2020
Jeremy Taylor, NIHR Director for Public Voice, NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination (CED), writes about his experience starting a new job under lockdown, and how an unexpected family illness has clarified his views on what is needed to take forward the agenda for patient and public involvement.
15 May 2020
Dr Margaret Ikpoh, a GP from Hull who describes the impact of Covid-19 on her practice in the latest #ResearchVoices blog series.
12 May 2020
International Nurses' Day is celebrated around the world on 12 May, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. Dr Sharon Barrett, Associate Director of Nursing at the NIHR Clinical Research Network marks this day by reflecting on the way research nurses have responded to the global pandemic.
07 May 2020
The NIHR Global Health Research Programme has come on in leaps and bounds over the past four years, writes Dr Lesong Conteh, with a raft of funding opportunities on the way for the next 12 months.
01 May 2020
Research Nurse Manager Carol Beane was considering retiring this summer. She is now leading the research delivery team at the new NHS Nightingale Hospital North West in response to Covid-19.
24 April 2020
Research nurse Georgina Falagan-Garmon’s skills are needed more than ever as she readies herself for a return to the Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU). Part of our series: Covid-19 Research Voices.
09 March 2020
James Munro, Chief Executive of Care Opinion, argues that there is extraordinary, yet untapped value in patient feedback which is not being recognised in current policy and practice. His blog follows the launch of the NIHR’s themed review on using patient feedback to improve care.
28 February 2020
Dr Alison Foster is an Academic Clinical Research Fellow Registrar in Clinical Genetics in the Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences at the University of Birmingham. As chief investigator of The Phenotyping of Overgrowth Disorders (POD) study she explains how a better understanding of rare and complex disorders can improve care for patients with rare disease.
25 February 2020
NIHR Learn's new Communities space is a dedicated virtual area for NIHR staff and the wider workforce – it's a great place to learn and develop, explains Tara-Sienna Hartman, Clinical Research Network Learning Community Coordinator at the NIHR and Tristian Marshall-Regan, Clinical Research Network Learning Content Curator. This blog is part of the NIHR's Rethinking your Continuing Professional Development series.
20 February 2020
Dr Barny Hole, kidney doctor and NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow, shares how running a small conference has helped him to further his research and career aims.
18 February 2020
The UK Standards for Public Involvement aim to help researchers and organisations climb to lofty heights in patient and public involvement and engagement in research. Bella Starling outlines her experience in testing the draft standards - how the standards informed practice in Manchester, and how practice in Manchester informed the standards.
11 February 2020
Research nurse Angus Sturrock shares a moving experience of how an aspiring artist's outlook on life was transformed through joining a clinical trial, aiming to improve mental health treatments.
06 February 2020
The NHS collects billions of data points from patients each year, but using this routinely collected data in health research is a challenge. Jamil Mayet, Amit Kaura, Ben Glampson and Dimitri Papadimitriou outline how the NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative is making such data available and the collaboration’s first big research success in heart attacks.
04 February 2020
Dr Pippa Corrie, NIHR Clinical Research Network National Specialty Lead, reflects on how patient involvement, a diverse portfolio, innovative precision medicine, and trainee research collaboratives have revolutionised changes in cancer research. Her blog marks World Cancer Day.
30 January 2020
Dr Kathryn Higgins explains how her NIHR-funded research into the wider impacts of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) provides new evidence to help pinpoint the right treatments for users suffering harmful effects from the drugs.
23 January 2020
An NIHR-funded global health study called PREVENT India is investigating whether a ‘care bundle’ can help stop brain injury during childbirth and reduce the incidence of epilepsy. Jyothy Karat describes how birth companions, one element of this bundle, can support medical teams during the labour process but also empower mothers.
22 January 2020
Jennifer Bostock reflects on her experiences as a public contributor, helping shape research over the last decade, and encourages others to get involved by applying to join an NIHR committee.
21 January 2020
Putting in the hours to learn a new skill is only part of the story. It’s all about the right sort of practice. Part of the Rethinking your Continuing Professional Development series.
20 December 2019
2019 is drawing to a close following another eventful year for the NIHR. As we approach 2020 we reflect on some of our most read blogs published over the course of the last 12 months.
19 December 2019
It’s been another very busy year for the NIHR. As we draw to the end of 2019, we take a look back at some of our most popular blogs over the last 12 months.
05 November 2019
Professor Hazel Everitt explains how her research into Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) delivered over the telephone or online can help benefit patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
31 October 2019
Theo Tomlinson writes about how a conversation with his mental health support worker inspired him to participate in research studies. He encourages other healthcare professionals to take the next step in their research career, in his blog published as part of the NIHR's Your Path in Research campaign.