New University of Bradford project announced
13th February 2024
Read about this on the University of Bradford website:
£5m project to ensure university research informs public policy decisions
Celebrate as One shortlists announced
06th October 2023
The Celebrate as One: Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership Awards 2023 shortlists have now been announced, including those nominated to win the 'Research initiative of the year' award.
You can see the full list of awards online:
The Yorkshire & Humber AHSN changes name
02nd October 2023
The Yorkshire & Humber Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) has changed its name to Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber.
You can visit the Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber website to read more:
https://www.healthinnovationyh.org.uk/news/healthinnovationyh/
Yorkshire and Humber recruitment update shared
21st September 2023
The Yorkshire and Humber Clinical Research Network has shared recruitment figures for 2022-2023, with over 115,000 people taking part in health and care research in our region.
Visit the NIHR website to read more:
New Born in Bradford (BiB) findings
27th July 2023
Visit the BiB website to read 'New research finds one-in-two healthcare attendances for breathing difficulties in Bradford could be triggered by breaches in daily air pollution limits':
NIHR Signal: Public health interventions may offer society a return on investment of £14 for each £1 spent
18th July 2017
An NIHR signal has been released, sharing results of a systematic review:
'This systematic review estimates the return that public health interventions deliver to the wider health and social care economy in monetary terms. To get this figure a wide range of different interventions in different studies were identified. Results were averaged from 52 studies. The return on each £1 spent for interventions varied from -£21.3 to £221.'
You can read more on the NIHR Dissemination Centre site.
NIHR Dissemination Centre Themed Review released: Advancing Care - Research with Care Homes
05th July 2017
A new NIHR Dissemination Centre (NIHR DC) themed review has been released, bringing together evidence based on the theme of care homes. This features lots of interesting information about ongoing and published NIHR studies. You can download this evidence from the NIHR DC website, here.
To read more themed reviews released by the NIHR Dissemination Centre visit their website. Topics include diabetes management, urgent and emergency care, maternity services, stroke, end of life and palliative care services.
Who are the NIHR? #WeAreNIHR
03rd July 2017
Who are the NIHR? #WeAreNIHR
A new video has been released by the NIHR to explain what it is and does. The video describes the NIHR in a nutshell. It features people from across the NIHR who are working towards improving the health of the nation through research.
You can watch the video here or follow on social media using the hashtag #WeAreNIHR
NIHR Let’s Get Digital Competition - deadline
12th June 2017
There are just over two weeks left to enter the NIHR’s Let’s Get Digital Competition.
This competition is for those involved with NIHR research who use video, websites, infographics, digital communities and photography to communicate messages about research.
The competition is open until Friday 30th June 2017. Winning entries will be promoted by the NIHR and the winning applicants will win a trip to Google’s headquarters in London to learn about all things digital.
To find out more visit www.nihr.ac.uk/getdigital
Join Dementia Research Champion Wendy Mitchell to publish book
03rd April 2017
Wendy Mitchell is a Join Dementia Research Champion from Yorkshire. Her blog is read widely; to read Wendy's blog documenting her experiences after her diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s, visit Which Me Am I Today?
Wendy is now co-writing a book about her experiences, information of which can be found on the Join Dementia Research website.