CLAHRC East Midlands has been given a £9 million award to enable more vital work to take place over the next five years to tackle the region’s health and care priorities.
The funding is part of a £135 million commitment made by Government’s Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) to drive improvements in health and care by accelerating the adoption of research and innovation to frontline services.
CLAHRC East Midlands was established in 2014 and thanks to the new funding our work will continue until at least 2024. The organisation will continue under the new name of NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARC) East Midlands from 1st October 2019 and will be hosted by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
ARC East Midlands has also been given a national remitto lead on research into black and minority ethnic health and on multi-morbidity given our significant expertise in these areas.
Director's message
Professor Kamlesh Khunti, who is the Director of the NIHR CLAHRC East Midlands and is also a Professor of Primary Care, Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the University of Leicester.
“Receiving this funding means we can continue to lead world class, applied health research across the East Midlands and build on the successes we have already achieved in speeding up the adoption of research and innovation into frontline health and care.
“We are also proud to be leading nationally on multimorbidity and equality, diversity and inclusion of underrepresented groups, areas where we have dedicated expertise and a track record in delivering cutting-edge research. We have a strong pedigree in research on multimorbidity in particular cardiometabolic disease and have established the Centre for BME Health, where our work has been helping to reduce health inequalities. We will share our knowledge nationally and collaborate with colleagues as we all collectively work towards improving the lives of people through research.”
