PPI opportunities

This page has the latest PPI training and opportunities for involvement for researchers, patients and the public living in and around Cambridge.

Please note that these are external events and the CUH PPI Team is not involved with their organisation or management, unless otherwise stated.

If you have any questions, please reach out via the avenues provided for each opportunity.

All information on this page is renewed weekly – last updated on: 23 January 2025

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Events

BTRU Seminar: To give or not to give? Individual, institutional, and ethical aspects of blood and organ donation by Professor Eva-Maria Merz

Monday 27th January 1-2pm in person, HLRI (building next to new Papworth Hospital) Room R100 or online

Summary of the talk: Certain blood products and transplant organs remain short in supply. While policy interventions such as financial incentives or opt-out consent have repeatedly been proposed for solving this lack, evidence shows contradictory results. This evidence often comes from epidemiological studies while an explanation for this phenomenon-human decision-making for high-cost giving-must come from social and behavioural sciences.

Link: https://www.donorhealth-btru.nihr.ac.uk/seminars-talks-and-videos-on-blood-donor-health-behaviour/

Please email donorhealth@medschl.cam.ac.uk for TEAMS link.

NIHR Webinar Series

Our fourth PPI in Action webinar ‘The Structured Health Intervention For Truckers (SHIFT) – embedding PPIE from programme conception to implementation’ is scheduled for 29th January, 11am.

Sign up for free: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RnaqdyyDRweqEMcBIwxtsQ#/registration

Participation opportunity

Research at CPFT

We’re working with the international POLARIS-AD study to find a new therapy for people with early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

If you know/care for someone aged 55-90 with thinking & memory problems who could take part contact our research team please contact: wru@cpft.nhs.uk / 01223 219753.

Other

BioResource awarded nearly £40M by NIHR

We’re pleased to announce that the NIHR (National Institute of Health & Care Research) has awarded £39.8 million to Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) to support the next stage of the NIHR BioResource. The funding is for four years from 1 April 2025.

Find out more: bit.ly/4gaxQfZ

NIHR – Dementia treatments

Results from a review co-led by Dr Ilianna Lourida (one of our NIHR Dementia Research Fellows) have been covered by The Guardian. The study looks to identify existing medicines which may work as dementia treatments, guiding future research

Click Here to read more.

Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital

We are delighted to share the news announced by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care today that Cambridge Cancer Research Hospital can proceed as planned following the New Hospital Programme review.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/ccrhnhp