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Medical research should start and finish with the patient

Reading Time: 3 minutes Results of a recent poll suggest that the UK public is incredibly supportive of healthcare research within the NHS. These results will now be used as evidence that the developing Health and Social Care Bill should include statements about an obligation to fund and promote research within the NHS. The results published today, state that…

Campaigning for science funding

Reading Time: 3 minutes This week has been quite exciting in the research development team. The symposium abstract book has been printed, the biomedical research advisory panel are meeting today to discuss the applications submitted to us for research funding in May and the campaign to save government spending on science that we are supporting has been stimulating a…

We are supporting the ‘Science is Vital’ campaign

Reading Time: < 1 minute We are backing a campaign calling for the Government to recognise the importance of science; and to lay out a supportive strategy for UK science and engineering which maintains a level of investment in line with economic growth. The ‘Science is Vital’ coalition is made up of concerned scientists, engineers and supporters of science, who…