Applications are invited for NIHR In-Practice Fellowship awards. The scheme funded by the NIHR Trainees Co-ordinating centre (NIHR TCC) is part of the Integrated Academic Training (IAT) programme set up to improve career pathways for researchers in both medicine and dentistry.
A large scale NIHR-funded trial shows that increasing the amount of social interaction for people with dementia living in care homes to just one hour a week improves quality of life and saves money.
Health Data Research UK is awarding £30 million funding to six sites across the UK to address challenging healthcare issues through use of data science.
For people with suspected pancreatic cancer, the addition of a specialist scan provides more accurate diagnosis and can better determine the stage of cancer, avoiding unnecessary surgery, finds research funded and published by NIHR.
Research funded by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research warns that rising levels of drug-resistance in bacteria that cause childhood infections could render common antibiotics ineffective.