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Growing our community connections and conversations

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Greta Brunskill, our Public Partnerships Manager, reflects on the value of growing our connections with community groups.

In July, Jana Suklan and I took a beautiful scenic…

Evidence Generation for Diagnostics Development 2025

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New diagnostics can provide great advantages to patient care. However, diagnostics developers need to provide a portfolio of evidence that demonstrates these benefits before their technologies can reach the…

Futures Foresight and Horizon Scanning Conference 2025

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This two-day hybrid event, hosted by NIHR Innovation Observatory, will bring together researchers, policymakers, data scientists, health professionals, and innovators to explore how futures thinking and horizon scanning can…

Diagnostics North East Conference 2025

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Diagnostics North East (DxNE), a consortium of the North East of England’s leading diagnostics organisations, are excited to share the details for the 2025 conference.

As a founding member of…

HRC in Diagnostic and Technology Evaluation: Regulatory Advice Questionnaire

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Opportunity to help shape the regulatory support we provide to the health technology industry

Understanding medical devices and in-vitro diagnostics regulation can be difficult for health technology developers. There can…

Evaluating a new rapid test for infections

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In partnership with the North East Innovation Lab, we are collaborating with ExGen Dx and supporting the development and evaluation of their test for…

Raising awareness and engaging the public in diagnostics research

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Over recent months, we have been actively growing and expanding the involvement of the public in all that we do.

For instance, we have particularly enjoyed being part of different…

Supporting diagnosis of severe stroke

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We have helped the company Upfront Diagnostics secure £500,000 funding to collect real-world evidence on their technology for detecting severe stroke.

In collaboration with the Newcastle University…

Launching the new RDN service in the North East and North Cumbria

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Join us at the launch of the NIHR Research Delivery Network (RDN) for the North East and North Cumbria.

Attendees will learn about what services the NIHR RDN offers, be…

Launch of HealthTech Research Centre in In-Vitro Diagnostics

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We are delighted to share details for this event hosted by our colleagues at the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre (HRC) in In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD).

The team will showcase their…

SurgTech 2025

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We are delighted to share details for this conference hosted by our colleagues at the NIHR HRC in Accelerated Surgical Care.

SurgTech 2025 aims to follow the MedTech innovation pipeline…

Working with public at the NIHR HRC in Diagnostic and Technology Evaluation

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Greta Brunskill shares our plans and strategy for building relationships with the public during the next few years.

We are pleased to share our new Patient and…