12,600 people will help test screening for a common heart condition which is known to be a trigger for strokes. A large new programme of health research on screening for undiagnosed atrial fibrillation, the heart condition responsible for one in ten strokes, is starting here in East Anglia, the North West, the East Midlands and […]
NIHR awards for Dr Hannah Harrison and Dr Juliet Usher-Smith
Dr Hannah Harrison was awarded an NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Award in October 2020 Hannah, Research Associate at the Prevention Group, aims to use her Fellowship to further develop her skills in risk model development and public health modelling. Building on previous work identifying and validating risk models for the development of kidney cancer, […]
New initiatives to join up and transform patient care to be subject to rapid evaluation
Promising innovations that are transforming the way that health services are provided will benefit from rapid evaluation to ensure their impact is fully and more quickly understood. A new national Rapid Service Evaluation Centre, known as BRACE, has been launched following the award of £2 million funding over five years from the National Institute for […]
NIHR awards £3m for new research to investigate screening to prevent one in ten strokes
A collaboration of several universities led by Cambridge has won a £3m funding award from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to lead a new programme of research investigating screening to detect undiagnosed atrial fibrillation, a heart condition responsible for one in ten strokes. The research will include the largest ever randomised controlled trial […]