NHS & NIHR

There has been longstanding, close collaboration between the University and NHS in the field of Ageing. From its outset in 1994, The Institute for Ageing and Health embodied partnership with NHS Trusts and its roots were in pioneering research on dementia and geriatric medicine.

The creation in 2007 of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) has been instrumental in helping to develop further the close links with the NHS, notably through the award to the Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Faculty of Medical Sciences of the national Biomedical research Centre on Ageing and Age-related Diseases.

Funding for the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre on Ageing and Age-related Diseases was renewed and substantially increased in 2011, together with the award of the NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Lewy Body Dementia.

Newcastle University also hosts the national Clinical Research Network on Stroke and co-hosts with UCL the national Clinical Research Network on Dementia and Neurodegenerative Diseases (DeNDRoN).

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