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£135 Million Research Fund Announcement

16 July 2019

Baroness Nicola Blackwood visited a UCL-led research collaboration today as the Government awarded £135 million investment to 15 pioneering teams to tackle the challenges the health and care system faces over the next five years.

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The NHS is joining forces with some of the country’s best universities, leading innovators and local authorities to solve some of the biggest issues facing health and social care over the next five years.

Fifteen partnerships across England, including NIHR ARC North Thames under the Directorship of Professor Rosalind Raine, have been awarded funding through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) for ground-breaking new research that will address the increasing demands on the NHS, public health and social care, improve outcomes and services and reduce inequalities.

This initiative will focus on five Themes: mental health, multimorbidity, population health and social care, innovation and implementation, health economics and data. Studies are planned in areas where significant advances can be achieved in tackling major health and care challenges– from reducing urgent care admissions to improving management of frailty; developing and evaluating pathways linking primary, secondary, and social care; addressing fairness and quality in provision of mental health services for all ages; developing the potential of diverse data for examining variations in outcomes; and providing tools to drive implementation across diverse settings. This will also see the examination of persistent problems (such as child health inequalities, impacts of multiple disadvantage, pollution, polypharmacy and sustainable social care) and emerging issues (such as gambling, knife crime and built infrastructure for sustainability.

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Sixth from left: Baroness Nicola Blackwood during her visit. Fifth from left: Professor Rosalind Raine.

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