The National Institute for Health Research invites stage 1 primary research applications and full evidence synthesis applications for its researcher-led workstream, under the health services and delivery research programme. This supports research into the quality, effectiveness and accessibility of health services, including evaluations of how the NHS might improve delivery of services. The aim is to fund research that will lead to improvements in health services that will be of greatest benefit to the NHS and to patients. Both primary research and evidence synthesis are supported. The workstream also has a continued interest in the following research areas:
- dementia;
- surgical and implantable devices;
- primary care interventions;
- very rare diseases;
- antimicrobial resistance;
- long-term conditions in children;
- applied research into mesothelioma;
- multimorbidities in older people;
- prevention and treatment of obesity;
- complex health and care needs in older people