NIHR News

Nurses and midwives have the opportunity to become research champions and drive improvements in future care through a new £3 million training scheme.

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A new study will test whether teenage girls’ activity levels can be increased through ‘peer power’ rather than interventions delivered by families and teachers.

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The NIHR has today launched a new set of 13 NIHR Policy Research Units to undertake research to inform decision-making by government and arms-length bodies.

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The NIHR has announced £150 million of funding for applied health research to tackle the key issues facing our healthcare system, including the pressures of an ageing population and the increasing demands on the NHS.

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In the largest ever trial of an intervention to treat people with multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) in primary care, NIHR-researchers found that the patient-centred approach taken improved patients’ experience of their care but did not improve their health-related quality of life. This is a challenge to current thinking on which UK and international guidelines are based.

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The NIHR Clinical Research Network has been working on ways to collect and understand patient feedback so the insight can be used to continuously improve clinical research practice. During 2017/18 a patient survey was carried out by Local Clinical Research Networks across England and core feedback was collated and analysed nationally.

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The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) in partnership with the British Association of Stroke Physicians (BASP) is inviting applications from the stroke research community to develop high quality research proposals.

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The NIHR and the British Heart Foundation announce the launch of a cardiovascular research partnership. This exciting new NIHR-BHF Cardiovascular Partnership brings together the leading translational research centres in the country and will collectively provide an internationally unique approach to early and exploratory drug development.

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Congratulations to our National Speciality Lead for Children and Young People’s Cancer, Dr Amos Burke, who was amongst the black and minority ethnic NHS staff who have been honoured as part of NHS England’s Windrush awards.

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