So you’re new to…the NIHR (part 2)

Drilling down into the National Institute for Health Research’s most frequent first port of call

In the first instalment of my two-part primer on the National Institute for Health Research, I outlined the NIHR’s structure, detailed its 10 research programmes and offered a couple of pointers for potential applicants.

This time round, in the concluding part, I will concentrate on the twin funding programmes called Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) and Research for Social Care (RfSC), as they are the most frequent first ports of call for health and social care researchers making a bid to the NIHR. These programmes welcome applications from early career researchers as well as more established scientists.