28 March 2023
Being vaccinated against Covid-19 halves people’s risk of developing long Covid, according to new research from Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) and the University of East Anglia (UEA).
13 February 2023
The world’s first diabetes research video game has now been developed into free Lesson Plans for use in UK primary schools.
15 November 2022
Parents across the East of England are being urged to support a new respiratory virus study looking into the UK’s leading cause of infant hospitalisation.
15 November 2022
CRN East of England has recruited two new Clinical Research Practitioner Engagement Leads, as part of a wider drive by the NIHR to encourage CRPs to take up professional accreditation.
17 October 2022
Kathryn Howlett, an NHS research nurse, recently joined the team driving the ENRICH and is inviting all care homes in the East of England to join the expanding network.
27 September 2022
Lennon, 13, recently became the first patient in the UK to follow a ground-breaking new NHS treatment plan to try to reduce his allergy to peanuts. Now, he is not only leading the way for other patients, he is also the first person in the UK to sign up for a new commercial peanut allergy study.
26 September 2022
A retired Administrator at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn (QEHKL), has praised the “fabulous” care she has received as the first participant in an innovative breast cancer study at Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.
19 July 2022
Geoff Fenwick, a carer from Norwich, has received the 2022 National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) East of England award for Research Volunteer.
12 July 2022
A GP in Norwich has won a prestigious national award honouring the enormous contribution they have made in delivering research to find new treatments and care pathways for NHS patients over the last year.
06 July 2022
Data published by the NIHR Clinical Research Network this month show that the number of clinical trials that took place in the East of England increased by 28% in the last year.
13 June 2022
Jodie Reynolds, a care home worker from Wyton, Cambridgeshire, took part in a gestational diabetes study at Hinchingbrooke Hospital in 2021. She has since been championing gestational diabetes research by taking part in the National Institute for Health and Care Research’s (NIHR) ‘TrialBlazers’ campaign.
08 June 2022
A care home in Hertfordshire has joined an important network, bringing opportunities for staff and residents to improve lives through research.
20 May 2022
Andrew Hoppington, a retired catering supplier from Freethorpe, Norfolk, has seen “incredible” results after taking part in a heart surgery study at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
12 May 2022
The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has appointed Professor Jeremy Turner as Lead Clinical Director for the CRN East of England, which is hosted regionally by the Trust.
04 May 2022
The research team at Wansford and King’s Cliffe Practice, Peterborough, has now recruited the first UK participant to the second phase which is targeting multiple COVID-19 variants.
03 March 2022
The world’s largest COVID-19 treatment trial has found that baricitinib, an anti-inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis drug, reduces deaths in patients hospitalised for COVID-19 by around one-fifth.
23 February 2022
An Administrative Manager from Norwich who won ITV’s ‘Tipping Point’ show has now taken part in the fastest growing research trial to help find a drug that people with COVID-19 can take at home that may help them to get better sooner and reduce the need for hospital admission.
16 February 2022
One of the world’s first Omicron-specific variant vaccines is to be trialled in the East of England as the biotechnology company Moderna, Inc works with the NIHR.
04 February 2022
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has this week authorised Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in the UK.
09 December 2021
Local GPs and healthcare professionals have today begun enrolling participants across the East of England to a first-of-its-kind clinical trial investigating the effectiveness of new oral antiviral treatments for COVID-19 - which can be safely taken at home.
01 December 2021
Researchers from across the East of England have been recognised in the Cancer Research Excellence Awards at this year’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) Eastern Cancer Conference.
24 November 2021
Researchers running the University of Oxford-led Com-COV programme have started enrolling young people aged 12 to 16 years old to receive a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, including in Cambridgeshire.
05 November 2021
A GP in Cambridge has won a prestigious national award honouring the enormous contribution they have made in delivering research to find new treatments and care pathways for NHS patients over the last year.
04 November 2021
A care home in Cheshunt has become the first in Hertfordshire to sign up to a new scheme being run by the NIHR which helps homes carry out research to find new ways to care for people.
10 October 2021
World Mental Health Day 2021: Eastern team calls for more people to be part of vital mental health research.
