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Explore the latest roundup of top stories from all our NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) across the country:
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Featuring the latest news, resources, blogs, events, opportunities & more
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The @nihr.bsky.social Children’s Health and Maternity Programme is led by @penarc.bsky.social & @arc-yharc.bsky.social in collaboration with:@arcnenc.bsky.social,ARC North Thames, @arcnwc.bsky.social, @arc-nwl.bsky.social, @arc-southlondon.bsky.social, @arc-west.bsky.social @arc-wm.bsky.social
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📢 Registrations are open for the Spring/Summer 2026 RaCEEs course!
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Hosted by the @arcnwc.bsky.social MIDAS Theme, this free course will grow your skills in #HealthEconomics and economic evaluations
✅ Open to anyone in the ARC NWC
🗓 Deadline: Friday 1 May 2026
🎧 NEW PODCAST 🎙️
Learn how public advisers helped co-produce research on community signposting services. Hear how lived experience shaped the project and its outputs.
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Incredibly proud to announce that our half-a-million-pound 20th anniversary grant round is now open!
Deadline: Friday, April 10
Find out more here: www.lewybody.org/lewy-body-society-20th-anniversary-500000-research-funding-call/
#dementiaresearch #researchfunding #neuroscience #Lewybodydementia
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Need practical advice on your Equality Impact Assessment?
Our next workshop for @nihrarcs.bsky.social researchers and study teams is taking place on:
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Don’t miss out – register today! @ethnichealthres.bsky.social
🗞️ Read the February national roundup of top stories from all ARCs across the country:
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Including news, resources, blogs, events, opportunities & much more
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Our new video made in collab with South Western Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust shows how tranexamic acid (TXA) is having a major impact in trauma care.
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#PreHospitalCare #Paramedics #TXA
NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research. Applied Research Collaborations. Top 25 stories of 2025.
Happy New Year from all the NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) across the country!
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Here are our 25 most popular newsletter stories from 2025:
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What a variety!
Scroll to the end to see the top-most clicked-on stories
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NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research. #ARCadvent Top ARC stories of the year. Day 18: ARC course builds confidence in understanding health economics. Picture: Close-up of a person drawing a graph with a red pen.
#ARCadvent Day 1️⃣8️⃣:
The RaCEEs (Rapid Conversion of Economic Evaluations) training course, co-led by @valesschloss.bsky.social of
@arcnwc.bsky.social, is helping public contributors and professionals develop practical skills in health economic evaluations.
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Published findings (2):
Parents’ emotions strongly influenced decision-making throughout their child’s health journey. These maps provide a powerful user experience tool and can inform how and why parents seek different services.
@bmj.com @arcnwc.bsky.social
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You can also find my poster on this work looking at parent journeys to emergency ED attendance with a febrile child, previously presented at the NIHR Academy Members Conference. @nihr.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social @arcnwc.bsky.social @nihrsphr.bsky.social
A belated move over to BlueSky (from the other platform that shall not be named)
Find my brief talk on findings from my qualitative study during my PhD on reasons parents present to the ED with a febrile child (novel approach).
@arcnwc.bsky.social @nihrsphr.bsky.social
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NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research. #ARCadvent Top ARC stories of the year. Day 13: Care homes to benefit from new care planning principles. Picture: Older person and carer smiling whilst toasting with tea in a garden.
#ARCadvent day 1️⃣3️⃣:
Comprehensive guidance for care planning in care homes has been developed by @arc-oxtv.bsky.social @arckss.bsky.social @arc-west.bsky.social @arcnwc.bsky.social & ARC North Thames
These free resources help staff create person-centred plans
www.arc-oxtv.nihr.ac.uk/news/care-ho...
NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research. #ARCadvent Top ARC stories of the year. Day 5: Helping parents in psychiatric hospital stay connected with their children. Picture: Parent and two children hugging.
#ARCadvent day 5️⃣:
A new programme developed to help parents in psychiatric hospital stay connected with their children addresses a critical gap in #MentalHealth services.
The programme was funded by @arckss.bsky.social and is the first of its kind in the UK.
arc-kss.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-pro...
NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research. #ARCadvent Top ARC stories of the year. Day 4: Giving patients online access to notes boosts safety and engagement. Picture: Person's hands with a laptop screen and a smartphone screen.
#ARCadvent day 4️⃣:
A landmark review by @arc-nwl.bsky.social, drawing on data from over 200,000 patients, shows that giving patients access to their medical notes improves safety, builds trust, & supports underserved groups, all without adding extra burden on staff
arc-nwl.nihr.ac.uk/news/giving-...
Find out what’s happening for ARC 2 NWC at our online Winter ARCFEST event❄️
📢Hear from our themes, learn about our workstreams, join breakouts and get key updates.
🗓️Register here➡️https://tinyurl.com/6zcsppdz
❄️ Read our final national newsletter of the year!
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for the latest roundup of news, blogs & opportunities from NIHR ARCs across the country.
❄️ Browse #ARCadvent this month, with daily posts on 1-25 December revealing the most popular stories of 2025!
❄️🗓️🎀 Count down to the holidays with our popular #ARCadvent calendar from all ARCs across the country!
☃️🎁👉 Follow #ARCadvent from 1-25 December for daily posts unboxing the most clicked-on ARC stories of the year
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Great to see ARC NWC’s contribution highlighted, with expertise from Equitable Place-Based Health and Care theme lead Prof Heather Brown on the economics of health inequalities, along with research from Prof Ben Barr, theme lead for Improving Population Health.
In this month’s ARC national newsletter.
👩⚕️ Katie Merry’s ARC NWC internship explores ways to reduce cervical screening inequalities among South Asian women.
🗣️ ARC NWC Public Advisor Naheed Tahir shares how co-chairing the Seldom Heard Forum is strengthening community voices.
Since their inception 6 years ago, ARCs have:
🔎 carried out over 3,300 research projects
📰 published over 9,000 papers
🤝 collaborated with 627 partner organisations
💰 leveraged about £1 billion in external funding!
👉🏿 Explore a selection of our work:
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💫 #ARCimpacts
Work by ARC NENC is highlighted today as part of our national #ARCimpacts campaign to celebrate 6 years of @arcnwc.bsky.social
Watch this short explainer video about our work to co-develop the Deep End NENC GP Network, and the difference that this has made so far ⬇️
NIHR National Institute for Health and Care Research ARCs have leveraged around £1 billion of external research funding #ARCimpacts
💫NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) have leveraged around £1 billion in external research funding!
💙Browse a selection of some of our amazing work from across the country:
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In the past 6 years, ARCs have worked with over 2,500 public contributors and have recruited over 810,000 study participants
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Thank you to everyone who has made this important applied health & care research possible
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Find out more about our work: mailchi.mp/nihr/nihr-ar...
💫 #ARCimpacts
ARCs have championed capacity building in applied health & care research
Over the past 6 years, ARCs have supported:
🎓455 PhD students
👩🏾🎓232 Postdoctoral Fellows
(e.g. our #Dementia Fellows: www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/dem-comm-res...)
Read about our work: mailchi.mp/nihr/nihr-ar...
💫 #ARCimpacts
Dementia inequalities board game (funded by Wellcome Trust funding and supported by NIHR ARC North West Coast). #ARCimpacts logo
How playing a game can help spread awareness of #dementia inequalities
With @wellcometrust.bsky.social funding, & supported by @arcnwc.bsky.social, an innovative & creative board game has been designed to improve knowledge about dementia inequalities
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💫 #ARCimpacts
Congratulations to ARC North West Coast CHI theme lead, Professor Sarah Rodgers, on her inaugural lecture Transforming Our Cities From the Ground Up! 🌍🏙️
Excited to see how her work connects communities, systems, and data to improve health.
#PublicHealth #InauguralLecture
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