Professor Dame Sally Davies will leave her post as Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Medical Advisor to the UK government at the end of September.
Research funded by the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) has shown that smaller portions of fish and chips could be popular with both takeaway owners and their customers.
The NIHR Roadshow for Medical and Digital Health Technology SMEs is coming to Bristol and Plymouth. Register for this free event and find out about the range of NIHR funding, guidance and support available to medical and digital healthtech companies.
Following feedback from the life sciences industry, NIHR CRN has developed a national improvement plan for the delivery of the Study Support Service for commercial contract studies – find out more here.
We are pleased to announce that the NIHR is, today, introducing a new, independent visual identity to reflect our growing maturity as an organisation, the breadth of our work across public health and the nation’s health and care system, and the research we now undertake to benefit international development.
New evidence published in the Cochrane Library today provides strong evidence that falls in people over sixty-years old can be prevented by exercise programmes.
A new clinical trial supported by the NIHR is offering patients with Parkinson’s disease a liver disease drug that has the potential to slow down progression of the neurological condition.
Work is underway to upgrade the NIHR Industry Costing Tool (iCT) into a new and improved web-based system - bringing a range of improvements to end-users in the life sciences industry and across the NHS.
The first study into the impact on the NHS of a new type of health worker in hospitals, Physician Associates, has found that they benefit medical and surgical teams and their patients over a wide range of specialities.