Sharing news and information from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). We fund, enable and deliver world-class health and care research.
The NIHR-supported RECOVERY trial has shown that dexamethasone, a steroid, significantly reduces the risk of dying from
#COVID19
for seriously ill patients requiring respiratory intervention - a major breakthrough
#priorityCOVIDresearch
BREAKING: The NIHR-supported
@remap_cap
trial shows that patients receiving tocilizumab and a second drug called sarilumab can reduce the relative risk of death by 24% when administered to patients within 24 hours of entering intensive care.
#Covid19
Over 5,000 patients with
#COVID19
are now taking part in the RECOVERY trial at over 160 NHS sites across the country. The NIHR-supported trial is leading the way in testing a range of potential treatments for COVID-19 disease
#PriorityCovidResearch
BREAKING: The RECOVERY trial finds no overall benefit for convalescent plasma in moderately ill patients taking part. It has now closed recruitment to this treatment arm for all hospitalised patients. A huge thanks to everyone who took part & donated blood
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science and we're celebrating all the fantastic women working in health and social care research.
Please help us. Retweet and tag the
#NIHRWomen
who inspire you or an unsung hero you think deserves some extra recognition.
NIHR will spend an additional £30 million per year to significantly increase opportunities for healthcare professionals to include research in their careers.
We are working with
@NHSEngland
to ensure the barriers to research careers are overcome.
A big thank you to those who have been involved in
#COVID19
research. Healthcare professionals, researchers, participants - you have all been part of something fantastic!
Join in and share your own thanks using
#ResearchVsCovid
from
BREAKING:
The Novavax
#COVID19vaccine
, supported by the NIHR, is 89.3% effective at preventing COVID-19 and offers a high level of protection, according to research involving over 15,000 UK participants.
Read more:
The NIHR and
@UKRI_News
are jointly calling for research proposals to investigate emerging evidence of an association between ethnicity and
#COVID19
incidence and adverse health outcomes:
#PriorityCovidResearch
Happy
#InternationalNursesDay
and THANK YOU to our wonderful Research Nurses all around the country. 👏
#IND2020
Nurses across the network are playing a vital role in combating
#COVID19
and delivering the research that is transforming patient care.
Today regulators at MHRA have approved the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Many thanks to NIHR-funded researchers from
@UniofOxford
and
@AstraZeneca
who developed the vaccine and all the volunteers taking part in trials
#priorityCOVIDresearch
Can you give 5 minutes to help beat Covid19? Join the list of research volunteers to help speed up the search for a vaccine
#BePartOfResearch
Sign-up at
#vaccineswork
BREAKING: The NIHR-supported RECOVERY trial has shown that the arthritis drug tocilizumab reduces the risk of death for hospitalised patients with severe COVID-19 - and reduces the length of hospital stay
#priorityCOVIDresearch
@Oxford_NDPH
It's Free. It's Online. It's a Course. The
#MOOC
is back! Learning about
#clinicalresearch
has never been easier. Sign up today - 'Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research'
BREAKING: Novavax confirms high levels of efficacy against original & variant
#COVID19
strains in UKs largest ever randomised double-blind placebo-controlled vaccine trials.
Delivered by NIHR, the UK trial enrolled over 15,000 participants. See more at:
Evidence has shown that patients of research active trusts have better outcomes… Here’s an easy way you can contribute and begin
#YourPathInResearch
. Visit our website for 3 more ways to get involved:
Four new research papers - including from NIHR-funded and supported REMAP-CAP trial - published today in
@JAMA_current
- reinforce evidence that steroids improve survival rates among critically ill by up to 20%
#COVID19
@imperialcollege
@BristolUni
Today is
#InternationalClinicalTrialsDay
to mark the day we're inviting anyone who has played a part in
#HealthResearch
to share their stories and tell us what difference it has made to them.
Has taking part in research helped you?
Happy birthday NHS! Research has been pivotal to improving NHS care over the past 70 years & will drive future improvements, says
@klouisewood
, Director of Science, Research & Evidence at
@DHSCgovuk
#NHS70
#iamresearch
Record-breaking | 725,333 people participated in NIHR-supported
#clinicalresearch
studies over the last year alone - the highest number since records began and an 8.8% yearly increase
#NHSResearch
#WeAreNIHR
This year the NHS is 70. Help spread the word about the positive impact research has on NHS services and more importantly, people's lives. Sign up to our
#Thunderclap
for
#ICTD2018
and show your support for NHS health research
#NHS70
#iamresearch
Give the NHS the gift of research for its 70th birthday! We need people like you to support research and help develop life-changing treatments. Find out how to get involved
#IamResearch
#NHS70
Today we celebrate James Lind's birthday!
James Lind is famous for conducting the first ever clinical trial. To mark the occasion we've launched
#YourPathInResearch
, a new campaign to inspire healthcare professionals to get more involved in
#research
.
>>
A COVID-19 vaccine programme supported by NIHR's
@OxfordBRC
has opened. The trial is recruiting healthy volunteers aged 18 to 55, to help test the potential effectiveness of
#COVID19
#vaccine
A warm welcome to the new Chief Executive of the National Institute for Health Research - Professor Lucy Chappell. Lucy will lead the NIHR as part of her wider role as Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Health and Social Care
@DHSCgovuk
We’re delighted 100,000 people have signed up to help the NHS find a
#COVID19
vaccine.
If you haven’t already, please sign up and share. The more people who register, the greater chance for researchers to find a vaccine and save lives
#BePartOfResearch
➡️
Free, immediate access to all peer-reviewed articles arising from the research we fund, with no barriers to re-use. This principle is at the heart of our new
#OpenAccess
policy published today.
BREAKING: A landmark study,
@recovery_rs
, which we funded and supported, has shown that treating hospitalised
#Covid19
patients with CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), can reduce the need for invasive ventilation.
Read the full story:
@DHSCgovuk
Happy International Women's Day 2022. This year’s theme is
#BreakTheBias
.
NIHR is committed to breaking the bias that exists for women in health and social care. Today we celebrate the powerful contribution made by women in science and research.
#IWD2022
The UK’s Chief Medical Officers and NHS England's Medical Director have written to every NHS Trust in the country, emphasising that more patients need to be enrolled into nationally prioritised clinical trials on
#COVID19
.
Find out more:
Participation from patients & the public in clinical trials is vital. Without people taking part, we could not make the tremendous progress in health research that continues to benefit us all. Help share this important message & inspire more people to
#BePartOfResearch
#ICTD2020
We’re delighted to announce a £50m investment for local government partnerships boosting local authorities’ capacity and capability to conduct high-quality research to tackle health inequalities.
Find out more
#HealthInequalities
@ADPHUK
@Solace_UK
🎉 The number of participants in health and social care research studies supported by the NIHR has topped one million for the first time. Thank you to everyone involved!
The NIHR welcomes the planned £5bn investment in health-related research and development, announced today as part of the Government’s three year Spending Review.
Over 6,000 patients are now taking part in the RECOVERY trial at over 170 NHS sites across the country. This NIHR-supported trial is leading the way in testing a range of potential treatments for
#COVID19
#PriorityCovidResearch
Breaking: Over 100,000 participants have now enrolled in urgent
#COVID19
research supported by the NIHR. But the scale of the challenge and the number of treatments being investigated mean we still need many more participants
#priorityCOVIDresearch
Under-served communities across the UK will benefit from a further £55 million
#research
investment to tackle
#HealthInequalities
, and improve health outcomes.
Read more about the next wave of Health Determinants Research Collaborations ⬇️
#PublicHealth
Evidence has shown that patients at research active trusts have better outcomes… Here are 4 easy way you can contribute and progress on
#yourpathinresearch
. Find out more from:
Results for
#dexamethasone
from the NIHR funded & supported
#RECOVERYtrial
have now been published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The cheap & widely available steroid is the first proven drug to improve survival in COVID19
@UKRI_News
@Oxford_NDPH
Inhaled budesonide - a common asthma drug - can reduce COVID-19 recovery times in people at higher risk of complications, when prescribed as a treatment for use at home. Findings from the NIHR-supported
#PRINCIPLEtrial
published in
@TheLancet
@UKRI_News
Some people have said they are concerned about getting a
#Covid19Vaccine
because of the speed they have been made and approved.
Watch our short animation below to discover 5 reasons why people shouldn’t be worried, and how COVID-19 research has moved quickly to fight the virus.
"We've got to lift each other up and research is the way to do it." Davina McCall
@ThisisDavina
joined the NIHR last week to stress the importance of increasing research into women's health.
NIHR is prioritising funding & support for world-class COVID-19
#research
across the UK. Find out about our approach to
#COVID19
and how to get your study nationally supported or funded by the NIHR as high priority COVID-19 Urgent Public Health Research
We've gone
#Red4Research
today to show our gratitude for all those who make research possible. Join us by posting a photo of yourself in red to show your support!
#NHS75
#BePartOfResearch
To celebrate
#NHS70
we're launching our I Am Research campaign and will be taking you through
#70discoveries
that have changed the face of research over the last 70 years. Keep a look out for the discovery of the day! Learn more at
#iamresearch
To emphasise our enduring commitment to social care research, NIHR is officially becoming the National Institute for Health and Care Research. Since 2006, NIHR has invested over £200m in
#SocialCare
research. Read about our plans for the future:
UPDATE: Until further notice, the NIHR Clinical Research Network is pausing the site set up of any new or ongoing studies at NHS and social care sites that are not nationally sponsored COVID-19 studies. Find out more:
#covid19
#coronavirus
Have you tested positive for COVID-19 with symptoms starting in the last 5 days? Are you aged 50 or over? Or aged 18+ with an underlying health condition? Then you could be eligible to join the PANORAMIC study looking at new COVID-19 antiviral treatments
On
#ResearchAdministratorDay
we're saying thank you to Research Administrators across the country, for all your work, enabling life-changing research to take place.
If you're looking for reasons to participate in
#healthresearch
take a look at this article from the Guardian today. Make
#NHS70
the year you get involved.
#IAmResearch
Six research leaders have been awarded the flagship NIHR Research Professorship award. They will each receive five-year awards of up to £2 million to promote the effective translation of research and strengthen research leadership.
Find out more:
It's Free. It's Online. It's a Course. The
#MOOC
returns! Learning about
#clinicalresearch
has never been easier. Sign up today! 'Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research'
BREAKING: The NIHR-supported
#RECOVERYtrial
has found that a new monoclonal antibody combination can help save lives of hospitalised patients with severe COVID-19 who were unable to generate an immune response before beginning treatment
@Oxford_NDPH
"One of the most important things in healthcare is to make sure patients get the right treatment to make them feel better".
@DrAmirKhanGP
highlights the importance of taking part in health research -watch below👇
Interested in learning more about research? The second of our free NIHR Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is open now!
‘Improving Healthcare Through Clinical Research’ runs for 4 weeks and you can join at any time.
#FlClinical
#NIHRlearn
Colleagues across NIHR have been key to the rapid set up of RECOVERY across 168 NHS sites - enabling over 5,000 hospitalised patients with
#COVID19
to take part in this important trial assessing potential treatments for the disease.
#prioritycovidresearch
Dr Esther Mukuka, NIHR Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) writes about the importance of EDI in research and why clinical trials need more diversity:
#BePartofResearch
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
We want to hear from you: what can we do to make it easier for women and girls to pursue a career in science?
Let us know in the comments below.
#WomenInScience
#NIHRWomen
NIHR-funded research has found that brief guided cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) delivered by parents was as good as a commonly used treatment, delivered by a therapist, in improving anxiety levels in children.
The
@RCPhysicians
and NIHR have published a joint position statement on ‘Making research everybody’s business’. It sets out how to make clinical research part of everyday practice for all healthcare professionals.
@UKRI_News
@UKRDLeaders
@AoMRC
@RCSnews
We've launched an inspiring new campaign
#YourPathInResearch
which supports health care professionals to get more involved in research. Read more about it here:
Today we celebrate
#JamesLind
birthday who is famous for conducting the first-ever clinical trial. To mark the occasion we are launching
#YourPathInResearch
, our campaign aimed at inspiring health care professionals to get more involved in research
As we celebrate
#NHS70
, we want to say thank you to NHS staff who deliver research. Your contribution has improved the lives of thousands. Use
#MyResearchHero
to share your thanks to someone who’s helped to deliver research in the NHS
Tomorrow is
#InternationalNursesDay
.
Now more than ever, it is important to recognise the vital work done by nursing staff across the UK. Please join us tomorrow, when we'll be celebrating our amazing Research Nurses! 💪
Our recent survey of 2000 people has identified a number of common misconceptions about
#clinicaltrials
. Find out more about the survey and the findings in our infographic
#IAmResearch
Six outstanding researchers have been awarded NIHR Research Professorships. They will receive five-year awards of up to £2 million to carry out research which aims to positively impact people across the UK.
Find out more:
Free e-learning resources are available for health and care researchers to help develop your leadership skills. Log in or register on NIHR Learn and select Leadership Development and then Leadership e-learning modules to find out more:
Be Part of Research, the online service that makes it easy for people to find and take part in health and care research, is now available through the NHS App in England.
@NHSDigital
@DHSCgovuk
Happy
#InternationalNursesDay
to all research nurses and nurses leading research across the NIHR. Thank you for all your hard work over the past difficult year.
Today we are celebrating the nurses leading others into research and we want to know, who has inspired you?
#IND2021
As part of our
#YourPathInResearch
campaign, we are dispelling some common myths around healthcare research. Myth
#3
: Research costs the NHS and takes away from patient care... Find out more about the campaign here
On the NHS's birthday we want to say a huge thank you to our heroes across the NHS who change lives by supporting, delivering or leading research.
Retweet and join us in saying thank you.
#NHSBirthday
Happy birthday NHS! Thank you to all the
@NHSuk
staff, volunteers and patients for delivering and being part of life-changing research. RT to say thank you too.
#NHSBirthday
In this evening's daily briefing
@MattHancock
talked about important new
#Covid19
research. Among others the RECOVERY trial - the largest of its kind in the world - needs volunteers. Please share and help more people get involved:
@BBCFergusWalsh
Today is International Day of Women and Girls in Science! The day is an opportunity to promote full and equal access to and participation for
#womenandgirlsinscience
. We'll be celebrating the female researchers we fund throughout the day
Practice changing results from the NIHR-supported
#RECOVERYtrial
show no clinical benefit for antiviral drug lopinavir-ritonavir in hospitalised patients with
#COVID19
. Randomisation to this treatment arm has now ceased
#PriorityCovidResearch
@Oxford_NDPH
BREAKING: Valneva reports positive Phase 1/2 data for COVID-19 vaccine candidate VLA2001, with no safety concerns identified.
Supported by NIHR,153 healthy adults were recruited across four sites in Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle & Southampton. See more: