Estimates of the cost of cancer care are crucial for the economic evaluation of screening interventions and other early cancer diagnosis initiatives. …

Cancer is costly for patients and the NHS – but it also has a significant impact on the UK economy, according to research led by the University of Leeds.

Few patients will be eligible for the drugs. Better food regulation and social policy are far more likely to give lasting results, says GP Helen Salisbury

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An approach linking health and skills could boost employability In the UK, 2.8 million people are economically inactive and in receipt of health related welfare benefits.1 Almost a million young peop...

Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a background in economics, econometrics, statistics, epidemiology or health data science? Are you interested in working wit...

Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have a background in economics, econometrics, statistics, epidemiology or health data science? Are you interested in working wit...

AI could scale up qualitative research to a whole new level, but not without limitations

The national newsletter from across all the NIHR ARCs. In this edition: Regional health inequalities, a type 2 diabetes self-management programme tailored to the UK’s African and Caribbean communities...

Not really, no. Time for a new push on empiricism.

Instrumental variable analysis uses naturally occurring variation to estimate the causal effects of treatments, interventions, and risk factors on outcomes in the population from observational data. U...

Randomised data on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) for stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) and prostatectomy in localised prostate cancer are lacki…

Backlogs in NHS care and long waiting times in England are widespread, and politicians, policymakers and the public are well aware of this. But headline numbers obscure important distinctions, and que...