NHS England are conducting independent stakeholder surveys to ascertain experience of individuals who are members of, or have worked with, an Academic Health Science Network (AHSN).

The NIHR Dissemination Centre have recently published a summary of a CLAHRC WM RCT on the effect of using the same vs. different order for second readings of screening mammograms on rates of breast cancer detection. The summary is available at: goo.gl/QnPGGg

An exciting new job opportunity is available for a full-time Research Fellow with CLAHRC WM Theme 3 (Prevention and Detection of Disease) at the University of Birmingham (fixed term for 12 months). For more information, visit: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/about/centres/clahrc/more/vacancies/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/about/centres/clahrc/more/vacancies/

The NIHR will be hosting its next live one hour webinar on ‘Writing for Publication’ on Tuesday 23 August at 2pm, which may be of interest to you.

Changing the order in which readers examine screening mammograms has no effect on breast cancer detection rates, rates of recall for further tests or rates of disagreement between readers. Read the NIHR Signal here.

New funding opportunities are available from an NIHR and Medical Research Council partnership, with a deadline of 1pm 1 November 2016:
Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme

The fifth round of the NIHR Knowledge Mobilisation Research Fellowship Programme competition is now open, with applications accepted until 1pm on 15 September 2016. Interviews will take place in Leeds on 12 January 2017, and fellowships will commence on 1 April, 1 May or 1 June 2017. For further information, please visit the NIHR website: nihr.ac.uk/kmrf

The University of Birmingham's Health Services Managment Centre have recently sent out their latest newsletter, which features work co-authored by CLAHRC WM members on the 'weekend effect' of mortality rates and hospital admission, and the new grant for Russell Mannion (and colleagues) on employee whistleblowing in health care.

We have recently linked updated the publications pages on our website with links to the Altmetric score of each paper (where possible).

At the recent HSRUK Symposium the ENHANCE Study (part of our Chronic Diseases theme) presented a poster on 'Integrating the Identification of Joint Pain Anxiety and Depression in Primary Care Long-term Condition Reviews Analysis of Audio-Recorded Consultations' (Liddle J, Chew-Graham CA, Healey EL, Mallen CD, Jinks C).