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Health Services Research UK Conference 2021
Tuesday, 06 July 2021 to Thursday, 08 July 2021
Registrations are open for the Health Services Research UK Conference 2021 which takes place online this year from 6-8 July. Early Bird rates are available to all until 15 March and as someone in an HSR UK member organisation, you'll also receive a member discount.
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NIHR ARCs national webinars: Mental health
Wednesday, 17 May 2023 to Wednesday, 12 July 2023
In this cross-ARC series of three webinars titled: 'Mental health and our modern world', we look at mental health in the context of some of the most topical themes of our times.
Latest news
Measuring health-related quality of life during pandemics
11 April 2023
Researchers at Oxford Population Health’s Health Economics Research Centre, supported by the NIHR ARC OxTV, have shown that the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a reduction in perceived health-related quality of life, especially related to incidences of anxiety and depression in younger people.
Online arts and culture for young people’s mental health – new research programme announced
3 April 2023
Young people will help create an ‘online museum’ as a way of improving their mental health, as part of a new and ground-breaking £2.61m research project.
Pharmaceutical companies reduce own greenhouse gas emissions, but action on supply chains needed
3 March 2023
Pharmaceutical companies are reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, but can only meet their targets with support from their suppliers, shows first study of commitments and progress by the sector.
Research from NIHR ARC OxTV supported researchers key in new all-party government report evaluating government commitments on the digitisation of the NHS.
20 February 2023
The report, authored by a panel of independent experts, gave the government's progress an "inadequate" rating, raising questions about the Government's capacity to guarantee that the health and social care systems have the digital underpinnings they require to meet the challenges they face.
NICE recommends NIHR ARC OxTV and Oxford Health BRC supported digital mental health technologies for children and young people for use in the NHS.
8 February 2023
Two technologies from the University of Oxford, Online Support and Intervention for Child Anxiety (OSI) and Online Social anxiety Cognitive therapy for Adolescents (OSCA) were among four digital tools recommended for use in the NHS that can help children and young people with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety or low mood.
Changes in children’s mental health and parents’ financial stress from March 2020 to October 2022
25 January 2023
Findings from this report outlines the changes in child mental health and parental financial stress 30 months after the start of COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.