On behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), the NIHR is launching an open competition to allocate capital investment funding for antimicrobial resistance research.

The Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) Fund was a funding partnership between the Wellcome Trust and the Department of Health and Social Care to stimulate the creation of innovative healthcare products, technologies and interventions and to facilitate their development for the benefit of patients in the NHS and beyond.

The NIHR funds research to inform government and arms-length bodies making policy decisions about health and social care through its Policy Research Programme and Policy Research Units.