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Preparing parents with preterm infants for discharge home from hospital
A project funded by the NIHR HS&DR Programme, looking at preparing parents for returning home with their new baby, has just published in BMJOpen. More than 90 percent of babies born at 27 weeks or more gestation survive and are later discharged to go home. Many of these will have stayed in Neonatal Intensive Care... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - March 11, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Antibiotic coated tubes could reduce infection rates of children in intensive care
Coating the plastic tubing that is used to give life-saving drugs and fluids into a child’s vein with antibiotics could help to prevent bloodstream infections developing in children in intensive care, finds research funded by the NIHR HTA Programme. Reducing the number of these infections would mean fewer children in intensive care would suffer consequences... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - March 4, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Opportunities to influence health research in the UK
NIHR research programme boards and panels prioritise important research questions for NIHR commissioning, and make funding recommendations on project applications.We are looking for additional expertise for the boards or panels of the following programmes: Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) ProgrammeNIHR Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) ProgrammeNIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) ProgrammeNIHR Public Health Research... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - March 1, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Therapy to stop premature birth is ineffective
A therapy widely recommended in the UK, Europe and the US to stop babies from being born too soon is found ineffective. Findings of the EME funded study have published in The Lancet and show that whilst treatment does not appear to pose any harm to mother or baby, it has no effect on preventing... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - February 24, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Putting patients at heart of improving NHS services
New research funded by the NIHR HS&DR programme, will look at future ways to collect and analyse patient feedback to make it more useful for improving NHS services. The work is a joint project between The University of Manchester, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. Patients have helped... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - February 23, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Health equality indicators to help NHS
A study funded by the HS&DR Programme, developed eight indicators of social inequality in healthcare access and outcomes that can help NHS and local authorities monitor healthcare inequality across England. This could ultimately lead to improved care for the most socially disadvantaged patients.Social inequality in healthcare access and outcomes leads to preventable emergency hospitalisation and... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - February 8, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

National smoking bans reducing the harms of passive smoking
Evidence published in the Cochrane Library suggests that national smoking legislation does reduce the harms of passive smoking, and particularly risks from heart disease. The updated Cochrane review found that populations of countries who imposed smoking bans benefited from reduced exposure to passive smoke and specifically cardiovascular disease. Indoor smoking was banned in all public... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - February 4, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

New study in stroke therapy investigates 160,000 patients’ records
A study funded by the HS&DR Programme, will investigate 160,000 recently available patient records to identify issues affecting the quality of stroke therapy in England. Around 1.2 million people in the UK are classed as stroke survivors with around 150,000 new incidences of stroke each year. Although three quarters of people survive their stroke, many... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - February 2, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

NIHR to invest in more research into the prevention and treatment of obesity
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) will invest millions of pounds into research addressing the prevention and treatment of overweight and obesity. The call for proposals follows comments from the Chief Medical Officer who has highlighted obesity as one of the biggest threats to the nation’s health.The NIHR hopes researchers will submit applications covering... (Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News)
Source: NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies News - January 28, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news