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04 December 2019
Angus Sturrock, Mental Health Research Nurse, explains how to overcome some of the complexities of conducting research in care homes.
03 December 2019
Autistica has had a long history of collaboration with the NIHR, developing research priorities with the James Lind Alliance that have influenced funding by the charity itself, the NIHR and other funders.
18 November 2019
Danielle van der Windt is Professor of Primary Care Epidemiology and Research Director at Keele University’s School for Primary, Community and Social Care. She describes why her research into shoulder pain is so important and how the NIHR-charity co-funding made it happen.
12 November 2019
Dr Damian Roland is a Consultant and Honorary Associate Professor in paediatric emergency medicine. He was awarded an NIHR fellowship in 2010 and successfully applied for RfPB programme funding in 2015. He has shared his advice on how an RfPB award as an early career researcher can be a stepping stone to a research career.
12 November 2019
Justine Tomlinson is a specialist pharmacist and doctoral training fellow at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Bradford. She successfully applied for an NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) award during her PhD and has shared her advice to encourage other doctoral students to apply.
05 November 2019
The ARREST trial was designed to assess whether adding rifampicin to standard antibiotic treatment for staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia would improve survival from this infection.
05 November 2019
Prednisolone (steroid treatment) and pentoxifylline are both recommended for the treatment of severe alcoholic hepatitis and are widely used, but uncertainty remained about their benefits. STOPAH was a randomised double blind trial designed to evaluate the effect of treatment with prednisolone or pentoxifylline in patients with alcoholic hepatitis.
05 November 2019
We explore four key ways research can benefit your career, featuring testimonies from healthcare professionals who encourage others to follow in their footsteps and take their next step in their research career.
30 October 2019
Andrew Owen, a dual speciality trainee in anaesthesia and critical care, explains how his research career has progressed as an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow and an NIHR Clinical Lecturer.
24 October 2019
A lead clinical physiotherapist provides insight into her path in research - including being the first Allied Health Professional (AHP) in her organisation to be awarded the HEE/NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship.
23 October 2019
DIPLOMA is a four year programme of work to assess the success of the NHS Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme.
22 October 2019
A senior nurse shares how she utilised the support of the NIHR’s Research Design Service to focus her application which saw her being awarded a HEE/NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship.
21 October 2019
Dr Jessica Watson is a GP and an NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow. She talks about her experience of being awarded an NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACF).
14 October 2019
We help debunk some common misconceptions about clinical research and explain how it's only by keeping up to date on better treatments and care and improving diagnosis and prevention that we can improve patient care.
07 October 2019
Mohana Ratnapalan applied for the NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship to innovate in the care provided and how it is delivered.
04 October 2019
Advanced nurse practitioner Michelle Davies explains how her journey through research has progressed and urges others to follow in her footsteps.
04 October 2019
Senior Clinical Research Nurse Imogen Skene explains how her research career has developed after embarking on an NIHR Pre-doctoral Fellowship.
04 October 2019
Research registries and biobanks present an efficient way of doing research. In the UK the life sciences industry, charities and academia are collaborating to maximise this new approach and open up a wealth of new opportunities to accelerate new advances that will benefit kidney disease patients.
04 October 2019
In the UK our ability to access rich patient data within our national healthcare system is rapidly expanding. The advent of the ehealth record and ever-growing interconnectivity of information systems is opening up new opportunities and enabling new and innovative approaches to conducting clinical trials. The SIMPLIFIED study is a case in point and is the first renal registry-facilitated trial of its kind.
04 October 2019
Children’s physiotherapist Adam Galloway shares how he first made the move into a clinical academic career and reveals insights into his journey as a NIHR Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellow.’
03 October 2019
The SUSPEND study looked at the use of drug therapy in the management of symptomatic ureteric stones in hospitalised adults.
03 October 2019
The INTERACT 2 study compared early intensive lowering of blood pressure with existing guidelines.
01 October 2019
Forte Medical Ltd collaborated with the NIHR to develop a usability study for their urine sample collection device, Peezy™
01 October 2019
A research registry in the UK which provides rapid access to almost 24,000 patients with rare renal disease is transforming how research in rare renal conditions is done, and making the UK an attractive prospect for new academic and commercial studies.
30 September 2019
Finding the right dose of any therapy is crucial and adaptive trial designs offer a novel way of finding the most appropriate dose for licensed drugs being repurposed for another indication. Back in 2013, Professor Munir Pirmohamed commenced the TAILoR trial to ascertain the optimum dose of telmisartan to help reduce insulin resistance in HIV-positive patients, and with interesting results.