…Research Wales, joins nine other Chief Investigators on the UK Clinical Research Collaboration’s new Chief Investigator’s Network Group (CING), it was announced this week. Bringing together CIs from a diverse range of specialties and professional backgrounds, CING will work together to identify challenges and their solutions, develop resources to support the CTU-CI collaboration, identify approaches used by other networks, and work with the CTU N…

…the R&D community in Wales for their hard work in supporting the progress made to date and look forward to considering the review recommendations with them. Director of Health and Care Research Wales, Professor Kieran Walshe, said: It is vital that the UK is ambitious in its plans for commercial research to ensure all opportunities for growth and investments are maximised, as well as ensuring the UK can offer patients the access to new experiment…

…encouraging and demonstrate the crucial role of research in saving and improving lives. Health and Care Research Wales is proud to participate in HARMONIE and to offer Welsh parents the opportunity to help not only their own child but also help improve outcomes for others by being part of research.” Spread by coughing and sneezing, RSV affects about 20,000 infants in Wales every year and causes a mild, cold-like illness most of the time. However,…

…re pregnant. We also looked at the US registry data to understand their outcomes to inform what we tell women in the clinic.” Researchers at the University of Liverpool then worked out that live birth rates were quite similar to the general population, and that there were not particularly any more spontaneous abortions and terminations – although the study did show that women had more infections and that their lung function dropped after giving bi…

…l and infant datasets around the UK that could be harmonised, analysed and compared by researchers. But access, governance, computational capacity and the analyst skills required are all serious barriers. MIREDA will develop the tools, infrastructure and expertise needed to remove these barriers – enabling researchers in the UK to advance research into maternal and infant health – to improve life-course outcomes and help break the cycle of poverty…

…bership scheme to individuals who qualify, in an effort to promote a critical mass of excellent health and social care researchers and enhance collaboration across the research community in Wales.” To find out more about the Health and Care Research Wales Faculty, visit our website….

…l Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), Health Research Authority (HRA) and members of the public, we have developed a new guide for public contributors who are offered payment for their involvement in health and social care research. The new guidance document provides useful information for researchers and public contributors alongside the existing guidance for organisations. Find out more about the guidance which is available in both st…