Manchester, Nottingham and UCLH BRCs to co-lead hearing health data initiative
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) UCLH Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is to co-lead a data initiative to improve care for people with hearing loss, which will be run in partnership with the NIHR Manchester and Nottingham BRCs.
The NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative (HIC) for Hearing Health will enable researchers and clinicians to harness routinely collected patient data in research into hearing health.
Its 4 priority areas of research will be:
- Exploring the effects of risk factors for hearing loss
- Identifying genetic causes of hearing loss
- Defining hearing loss sub-types
- Optimising benefit from individualised treatment strategies.
The Hearing Health HIC is one theme of an over-arching HIC from the NIHR.
Themes within the NIHR HIC bring together data scientists and clinicians to help pool data from multiple NHS Trusts so that it can be used for research that will benefit patients, whilst doing this in a way that means patient data is protected and used correctly.
Read more about the creation of the NIHR HIC for Hearing Health.
Find out more about the NIHR HIC.