The NIHR has today (12 November) launched five new National Patient Recruitment Centres (NPRCs) to enable more late phase commercial clinical research to be delivered within the NHS and make it easier for people to take part in studies. The Patient Recruitment Centre in Leicester is hosted by University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and is based at the Leicester General Hospital.Read More
People of Black and Asian ethnicity up to twice as likely to be infected with COVID-19 as those of White ethnicity
People of Black ethnicity are twice as likely to be infected with COVID-19 compared to those of White ethnicity, according to researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre. The findings are published in EClinical Medicine by The Lancet today (Thursday 12 November 2020).Read More
Assessment tool for chronic lung disease could support patients recovering from COVID
Researchers at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) – a partnership between the University of Leicester, Leicester’s Hospitals and Loughborough University – have found that a widely used 8 point questionnaire for COPD and other respiratory conditions may be a useful tool for assessing people’s health during COVID-19 recovery.Read More
Study reveals medium-term impact of COVID-19
Initial findings from a study that is part of the PHOSP-COVID platform looking at the longer-term impact of COVID-19 has found that a large proportion COVID-19 patients discharged from hospital were still experiencing symptoms of breathlessness, fatigue, anxiety and depression two to three months after contracting the virus.Read More
Leicester nurse turned researcher takes ‘paper of the year’ title in top cardiology journal for work on patients with heart failure
A nurse researcher who was the lead author of a paper into the risk factors of heart failure has learnt that the paper has been named ‘2020 Paper of the Year’ by the prestigious journal, Circulation: Heart Failure.Read More
Local people wanted for new group helping researchers understand COVID
Members of the public who have had, or cared for someone with, COVID-19 are being asked to join a new advisory group run by Leicester’s Hospitals to help researchers design future projects and studies.Read More