NHS patients will benefit from easier access to clinical research opportunities, following a £7 million government investment to launch five new regional Patient Recruitment Centres (PRCs) across England.
An NIHR-funded and supported study has found that adding cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to standardised medical care gives patients with dissociative seizures longer periods of seizure freedom, less bothersome seizures and a greater quality of life.
Help us celebrate the essential contribution that patients and the public make to health research.
Compression stockings might be unnecessary to prevent blood clots in most patients undergoing non-emergency (elective) surgery, finds an NIHR-funded trial.
New NIHR-funded research suggests that pregnant women are no more likely to become ill with severe COVID-19 than non-pregnant women. However, the majority of women who did become severely ill were in their third trimester of pregnancy, emphasising the importance of social distancing for this group.
International Nurses Day is celebrated each year at an annual service in Westminster Abbey. This year, NIHR senior research nurse Arlene Lee was given the honour of carrying the lamp, on what would have been Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday.
People are more likely to choose non-alcoholic drinks if more of those drinks are available than alcoholic alternatives, suggests new research supported by the NIHR.
The UK’s four Chief Medical Officers and NHS England and Improvement’s’ National Medical Director have written a joint letter to every NHS Trust in the country emphasising that more patients need to be enrolled into nationally prioritised clinical trials on COVID-19.
Women with early stage breast cancer can be treated with fewer but larger daily doses of radiotherapy delivered in a shorter overall duration compared with the current standard, finds research funded and supported by NIHR.
A new study funded by NIHR could help A&E departments identify which patients with coronavirus should be admitted to hospital or not.
The NIHR and NHS England and NHS Improvement have designated eight Academic Health Science Centres (AHSCs) in England.
The country's five most senior doctors urge NHS Trusts to enrol patients into nationally prioritised COVID-19 trials.
The NIHR has launched a new Centre for Engagement and Dissemination that brings together its activities in patient and public involvement, engagement and participation with its strengths in research dissemination.
A breathing aid that can help COVID-19 patients with serious lung infections to breathe more easily without the need to use invasive ventilators has been developed by a collaboration of engineers, industry and clinicians.
Statement on the impact of COVID-19 on NIHR funded and supported research and advice to the NIHR community helping to facilitate this research.
The UK Government has today committed an extra £12million to the NIHR in 2020/21 for research into preventable diseases.
A new package of interactive learning resources is now available to support research delivery professionals in promoting research to colleagues across the NHS.
A nine-year observational study has linked roll out of Universal Credit across England, Wales, and Scotland with an increase in mental health problems among unemployed recipients.
This week Join Dementia Research celebrates its fifth birthday. Help us mark the occasion by sending a digital greeting card to someone you know who might be interested in research.
Leading UK soft drinks companies continued to experience positive growth in their share prices during the implementation of the UK Government’s Soft Drinks Industry Levy (SDIL), despite widespread industry fears the tax would harm their businesses, researchers funded by NIHR have found.
Using moisturisers on newborn babies does not prevent eczema as previously thought, according to a major new study funded by the NIHR’s HTA programme.
Harmful health advice, or ‘fake news’, circulating on social media and in person during an infectious disease epidemic could make the outbreak worse, new research has shown.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has announced a nine week consultation to inform their proposed Open Access policy.
A new method of treating wounds after major trauma costing nearly £150 per dressing may be no more effective in reducing infections than a standard wound dressing priced under £2, NIHR researchers have found.
An NIHR-funded study reveals a breakthrough for sportsmen and women in the treatment of Achilles tendon rupture, according to researchers.
