22 October 2021
A study identifying key strategies to improve the influenza vaccination rate among people at risk of serious disease has informed guidelines used by general practitioners to plan and deliver their annual vaccination programmes.
20 October 2021
The NIHR Global Health Research Group in Surgical Technologies has developed an innovative new device, enabling routine surgery in remote communities
19 October 2021
The Respiratory Translational Research Collaboration (R-TRC) played a leading role in the national search for drugs to treat severe COVID-19 disease. The UK collaboration focused particularly on identifying new, and repurposing existing drugs to improve outcome and reduce mortality in COVID-19 patients.
15 October 2021
The NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Tackling Infections to Benefit Africa (TIBA), hosted at the University of Edinburgh, has enabled the successful development of virus genome sequencing capacity through established partnerships in 13 countries across Africa, informing local, national and pan-African responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
06 October 2021
Double win for Network in a bid to thank research participants for taking part in COVID-19 research.
06 October 2021
Staff at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust experienced the benefits of using their Participant in Research Experience Survey feedback to improve the delivery of a COVID-19 vaccine trial.
16 September 2021
Carmel McGrath undertook a SPARC award with NIHR Imperial BRC Patient Experience Research Centre to enhance her CV and develop her academic career.
08 September 2021
The PARTNER2 study has confirmed that antiretroviral treatment for HIV reduces the risk of sexual transmission between gay male partners to zero.
25 August 2021
NIHR researchers have shown that a surgical procedure for young children with cerebral palsy improves their mobility and quality of life. The procedure is now available to eligible children on the NHS as a result of this evidence.
12 August 2021
The FINCH study has reported new evidence to inform the management of care home residents with dementia who experience faecal incontinence.
03 August 2021
The NIHR funded I-ASC study involved patients and the public from the bid-development stage onwards in their mission to improve communication aids for non-verbal children
28 July 2021
A multidisciplinary team of researchers based in Oxford, Tanzania and Uganda are testing novel diagnostic tools and strengthening local capacity to improve early diagnosis of blood cancers called lymphomas.
20 July 2021
Ravita Taheem is a practitioner academic who is undertaking a PhD to address local government policy on tackling childhood obesity, supported by the NIHR and her employer, Southampton City Council.
13 July 2021
An NIHR-funded trial has shown that therapy helps people with dementia achieve everyday goals, and this is being rolled out to health and care providers.
02 July 2021
An evaluation by NIHR-funded researchers of the widely accessed New Medicine Service pharmacy scheme found that it improved patients’ adherence to new medications and resulted in cost savings to the NHS of £558 million.
15 June 2021
Perinatal stroke is the leading cause of hemiplegic cerebral palsy. Research by NIHR Career Development Fellow Dr Anna Basu shows potential for improving long-term motor outcomes in affected infants through a new approach, early therapy in perinatal stroke (eTIPS).
07 June 2021
How forward-thinking approaches to cancer clinical trials from the last decade have featured in the UK’s fight against COVID-19.
07 June 2021
Find out why the STAMPEDE trial is a milestone in the history of clinical trial design in the UK.
06 June 2021
How our history of cutting-edge cancer research underpinned the UK’s COVID-19 research response.
03 June 2021
Results from a large study on the outcomes of 427 pregnant women and their babies during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic gave reassurance that pregnant women were at no greater risk of severe illness than other women.
18 May 2021
NIHR-funded researchers show that an internet-based weight-loss programme with brief support from a nurse can help people with obesity lose weight.
06 May 2021
Learn how the NIHR supported the PD-STAT trial to transition to a virtual model during the COVID-19 pandemic.
29 April 2021
A new approach to pre-donation screening was introduced across the whole national blood service as a result of NIHR research, saving around 30,000 people from avoidable anaemia and potential iron deficiency every year.
19 April 2021
NIHR-funded researchers are working with communities on three continents to improve the patient journey and reduce stigma for people with cutaneous leishmaniasis.
12 April 2021
Discover how the NIHR and Enteromed collaborated to deliver the UK’s first fully virtual, commercial, interventional trial for Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diarrhea (IBS-D).
