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NIHR research programmes

The Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) manages the following NIHR research programmes:

Need help to apply? Contact the Research Design Service

Following a comprehensive review at the end of 2010, the Research for Innovation, Speculation and Creativity (RISC) programme is now closed and no further competitions will be held. Existing grants continue to be managed by the NIHR Central Commissioning Facility.

For other sources of NIHR research funding, please return to the main NIHR Research page.

News and call dates

You can follow news from CCF at nihrccf.wordpress.com and any calls or competitions we announce at nihrccfcalls.tumblr.com.

NIHR Faculty and infrastucture

The CCF also manages the Senior Investigators competition for the NIHR Faculty and, for the NIHR infrastructure, the following:

Healthcare Technology Co-operatives competition

Research Design Service competition

Please use the links to access the guidance for CRFs for Experimental Medicine Competition and Patient Safety Translational Research Centre Competition.

The NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure (NOCRI) is hosted by CCF and based at Richmond House. NOCRI works closely with the NIHR infrastructure managed by CCF.

NIHR Research Schools

The NIHR Research Schools also report into CCF:

For more information about the recent call to form an NIHR School for Public Health, please click here.

Patient and Public Involvement

Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) is core to CCF’s review and commissioning process.

Engaging patients and members of the public in research leads to treatments that meet their needs, is more reliable and more likely to be put into practice.

Lay participation is welcomed, with an open call for the registration of new lay reviewers.

Researchers seeking NIHR funding through CCF should visit each programme page for more ideas about how to involve patients and other members of the public in their research.

Applied Health Research in Surgery

The following NIHR programmes will be participating in the NIHR call for research on the evaluation of technology-driven implanted or implantable medical devices, surgical procedures or surgical services.

The participating programmes are:

This call for research proposals is a key component of the NIHR’s response to recognition of the need for an increase in research-based evidence related to surgical productivity and to patient outcomes:

through supporting capacity building across a wide range of surgical disciplines and;
increasing the volume of high-quality research on the effectiveness, delivery and organisation of surgery and surgical services.

Application forms will be available from Thursday 23 February 2012. Completed forms must be submitted by Friday 25 May 2012. Funding decisions will be made no later than the end of March 2013.

Please find more information here.

Surgery Research Call FAQs

Programme Grants for Applied Research

Substantial awards for leading applied health research groups to tackle high priority health issues.