21 January 2021
A high number of NHS staff injuries caused by slips and falls in the workplace could be prevented if staff were recommended to wear ultra-grip shoes as part of their uniform, according to NIHR-funded research.
18 January 2021
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) has appointed Dr Kate Jones as the new national Research Delivery Director.
18 January 2021
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network is delighted to announce the winners of the research awards run in partnership with the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM).
18 January 2021
Two flagship, NIHR-supported studies - REMAP-CAP and RECOVERY - have found no evidence of benefit from convalescent plasma as a treatment for hospitalised patients with COVID-19.
09 January 2021
Researchers have developed a new risk stratification tool that can accurately predict the likelihood of deterioration in adults hospitalised with COVID-19.
08 January 2021
The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has today published its analysis of the way the Government has received, and applied, scientific evidence and advice during the first period of the coronavirus pandemic.
30 December 2020
The Medicines & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved use of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca for people in the UK.
29 December 2020
A study led by NIHR-funded researchers investigating ways to reduce the impacts of gambling-related harms are today published in the Lancet
14 December 2020
The NIHR-supported RECOVERY trial has found no clinical benefit from the antibiotic azithromycin for hospitalised patients with severe COVID-19.
08 December 2020
Ethnic minority healthcare workers are more likely to have built up antibodies to COVID-19, a team of NIHR-supported researchers have found.
05 December 2020
Over six hundred thousand participants have now taken part in NIHR-supported urgent public health research into Covid-19, in just over eight months.
01 December 2020
Community nurses from across the nation, led by a group of NIHR 70@70 senior nurse research leaders, are launching a new project to give patients, carers and healthcare professionals the opportunity to have their say about the future of community nursing research.
30 November 2020
The NIHR-supported Novavax Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial has achieved its recruitment target just two months after opening in the UK - with 15,203 volunteers from across the country recruited in record time.
27 November 2020
The NIHR-supported PRINCIPLE trial is to start investigating the inhaled corticosteroid budesonide to find out if it can help treat COVID-19 in patients who aren’t in hospital.
26 November 2020
NIHR responds to the announcement by the Chancellor of £1.3 billion to continue the 'world-leading' work of the NIHR and Genomics England.
25 November 2020
A collaboration between one of the NIHR’s new National Patient Recruitment Centres and Enteromed has led to rapid recruitment to one of the first fully virtual interventional clinical trials conducted in England.
23 November 2020
A UK study participant is the first in the world to receive a new COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, developed by AstraZeneca.
19 November 2020
The Clinical Research Delivery team at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust has won the 2020 Nursing Times award for Clinical Research Nursing.
13 November 2020
The NIHR’s Research for Social Care call (RfSC) has funded £2.19 million of new research into adult social care, as part of NIHR’s commitment to improving social care through high quality evidence and building capacity for research in this field.
12 November 2020
The NIHR has launched five new National Patient Recruitment Centres (NPRCs) to enable more late phase commercial clinical research to be delivered within the NHS and make it easier for people to take part in studies.
12 November 2020
The NIHR and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have launched a £20m joint research call to fund ambitious and comprehensive research into the longer term physical and mental effects of COVID-19 in non-hospitalised individuals.
12 November 2020
New research supported by NIHR has reviewed evidence in scientific publications with data, on the effect of ethnicity on clinical outcomes in patients with COVID-19.
11 November 2020
The largest diabetes prevention study in 30 years has found that losing just a few kilograms of weight can halve the risk of developing diabetes.
10 November 2020
Severe COVID-19 infection appears rare in newborn babies, suggests a new study funded by NIHR.
09 November 2020
NIHR supported research shows robust T cell immunity is likely to be present for at least six months after asymptomatic, mild or moderate coronavirus infection.