This interactive day is a must for students, GPs, registrars, researchers, and allied health professionals. The event aims to inspire, translate and innovate primary care research by showing current research.

Since its inception in 2006, the NIHR has significantly increased the scale of clinical research in the NHS, particularly through the Clinical Research Network. The enthusiastic engagement of NHS clinicians is an essential condition for sustaining and building on this success, particularly given the many competing demands on clinician time and resources.
These awards are for members of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and recognise outstanding contributions and innovations of NHS general practices and First5® GPs to the conduct of NIHR Clinical Research Network Portfolio studies in a primary care setting.

A new, free training initiative launches in the New Year to help GP receptionists recognise the symptoms of stroke and TIA (transient ischaemic attack).

The programme, ‘Getting to Hospital at a Single Stroke’, has been developed in response to a recent study at the University of Birmingham that revealed that 20% of stroke patients called their GP, rather than an ambulance, at the onset of symptoms.

The Health Research programme provides training for those intending to go on to a career that includes health-related research. This includes those wanting to undertake high quality research as part of their professional practice in healthcare and those aiming for a PhD

An introductory workshop to support people who would like to find out more about local research and how to get involved – free to all patients and public members and NHS research staff across the West Midlands (South) region which covers Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.