The NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme is inviting stage 1 applications for research proposals that are concerned with the day-to-day practice of health service staff, and that have the potential to have an impact on the health or wellbeing of patients and users of the NHS.
As a researcher-led programme, RfPB does not specify topics for research but instead encourages proposals for projects that address a wide range of health service issues and challenges.
The programme aims to fund high quality quantitative and qualitative research with a clear trajectory to patient benefit. It particularly encourages applications that have a strong element of interaction with patients and the public and that have been conceived in association with a relevant group of service users.
Please note that the programme has a new funding limit of £500k for Tier 1 studies.
The submission deadline for applications is 1pm on 8 March 2023.
Highlight notices and themed calls
Research for Patient Benefit is currently participating in the following highlight notices:
Highlight notice in ‘Motor Neurone Disease’
RfPB invites proposals for research that addresses some aspects of the diagnosis, treatment but not the development of treatment strategies, support or care of patients with motor neurone disease, including access to or the delivery of services. Research methods may involve primary research or evidence synthesis, including systematic reviews, modelling studies or the analysis of existing data sets. This highlight notice will apply until further notice.
For further details, please see NIHR Highlight Notice Motor Neurone Disease.
Highlight notice in ‘Brain tumours’
RfPB invites proposals for research that addresses any aspect of the diagnosis, treatment, support or care of patients with brain tumours, including access to or the delivery of services. Research methods may involve primary research or evidence synthesis, including systematic reviews, modelling studies or the analysis of existing datasets. This highlight notice will apply until further notice.
For further details, please see NIHR Highlight Notice Brain Tumors.
This call supports the report of the Department of Health & Social Care Task & Finish Working Group on Brain Tumour Research.
For further details, please visit the themed calls page.
Please note that RfPB’s researcher-led calls are open to all relevant research areas, and not just those in highlight notices and themed calls. If you are responding to the themed call, please indicate this in the application form under ‘Why is this research important in terms of improving the health and/or wellbeing of the public and/or to patients and health and care services?’.