The launch of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South West brought together researchers, health and care professionals, public contributors and partners from across the region at Sandy Par...

Antibiotics are one of the most commonly used medicines for newborn babies, especially in the first few days of life when doctors are watching closely for possible infections. Infections that appear w...

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On Friday 27th February 2026, colleagues, public contributors and partners gathered at the Exeter Mercure Southgate Hotel to celebrate five years of PenARC Patient and Public Involvement and Engagemen...

What does it really mean when we describe people as “hard to reach”? And who, in reality, is doing the reaching? In this blog, Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow John Stammers reflects on his work alongsid...

A new open training resource has been launched to help analysts and researchers build transparent and reproducible healthcare simulation models.  The DES RAP Book, created by Amy Heather from Peninsul...

Earlier this month, Professor Vicki Goodwin MBE and Devon Communities Together hosted two Ageing Well community events in Okehampton and Paignton. These sessions were designed to bring together resear...

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A pioneering research collaboration supported by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula (PenARC) has been recognised with a national Patient Safety Award at this year’s Health Servic...

The national newsletter from across all the NIHR ARCs. In this edition: The first major trial to reduce social media use among healthy adolescents, Continuous care from community-based midwives reduce...

Professor Richard Byng, PenARC Deputy Director, and Dr Rebecca Hardwick, PenARC Senior Research Fellow (Mental Health), are among the senior researchers awarded funding through the NIHR Mental Health ...

“Every person you meet knows something you don’t; learn from them” (H. Jackson Brown Jr.)  Maternal mental health research has the power to shape care, policy, and lived experiences – but only when th...

A Devon midwife is witnessing first-hand the impact of teaching preventative pelvic floor education in antenatal care, where previously it wasn’t routinely provided – or understood.  Lizzie Phillips, ...

The South West Secure Data Environment (SDE) is encouraging organisations that hold health and social care data in the South West to share more of their data, to drive ground-breaking research and inn...

On 3rd October 2025, PenARC co-hosted a powerful and thought-provoking online event, Co-Creating Change: Designing Domestic Abuse Services Together, in collaboration with ARC North East and North Cumb...

A new national resource designed to help commissioners and service leaders improve mental health support for children and young people in care has been launched at a well-received webinar hosted by th...

Commententary on the development of a framework for mapping health inequities in rare disease diagnosis and service access onto the health and social care pathway.

A new digital toolkit designed to help reduce falls in older adults has been launched with the help of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration South W...

PenARC researchers have just signed contracts for new NIHR funding to support a major research project tackling health inequalities for people experiencing homelessness.  The project, Optimising healt...

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Explore evidence-based approaches to improve mental health support for children in care in this expert-led, free professional webinar.