Sickness to Prevention

Project 845 | PALD in General Practice

Project dates: 06/07/2026 - 06/07/2027 Phase: FR15 Project 845 Research Team Dr Caity Roleston Dr Marta Wanat Lead Institution Funded amount £148,878 Funding round FR15 Penicillin Allergy De-Labelling (PADL) in general practice: An implementation study to inform national roll out A lot of people are told they…

August 26, 2026

Project 842 | A feasibility study of HomeHealth in a population experiencing homelessness

Project dates: 01/09/2026 - 31/05/2028 Phase: FR15 Project 842 Research Team Joanna Dawes Dr Paul Pascall Jones Lead Institution Funded amount £164,271 Funding round FR15 Frailty happens when a person’s body becomes less able to cope with illness, infection or physical stress. A frail person is more…

August 25, 2026

Project 841 | BALANCE: Personalising statin decisions by balancing cardiovascular benefit and diabetes risk in primary care

Project dates: 01/02/2027 - 30/09/2028 Phase: FR15 Project 841 Research Team Dr Juan Carlos Bazo-Alvarez Lead Institution Funded amount £135,726.28 Funding round FR15 From Thresholds to Trade-offs: the BALANCE Study – a target trial emulation and co-design programme to personalise statin decisions in primary care Statins are medicines…

August 25, 2026

Project 834 | WWI for cardiometabolic equity

Project dates: 01/09/2026 - 31/08/2028 Phase: FR15 Project 834 Research Team Professor Barbara Iyen Lead Institution Funded amount £150,489 Funding round FR15 Ethnicity-Specific Weight-Adjusted Waist Index (WWI) for Cardiometabolic Risk Assessment: Development and Testing in Community Settings Obesity is a major cause of preventable diseases like heart disease…

August 25, 2026

Project 833 | Equitable Cardiometabolic Risk for Minoritised Groups in NHS Health Check

Project dates: 01/09/2026 - 31/08/2028 Phase: FR15 Project 833 Research Team Dr Ralph Kwame Akyea Lead Institution Funded amount £149,510.35 Funding round FR15 Improving Equitable Cardiometabolic Risk Identification and Management in the NHS Health Check for Minoritised Groups Cardiometabolic disorders (a group of health conditions that affect the…

August 25, 2026

Project 831 | Co-designing an Intervention to Improve the Human Fit of Access and Reduce Inequalities

Project dates: 01/11/2026 - 30/04/2028 Phase: FR15 Project 831 Research Team Dr Jennifer Voorhees Lead Institution Funded amount £149,996 Funding round FR15 Co-designing an Intervention to Improve the Human Fit of Access and Reduce Inequalities: Facilitating Reflective Opportunities for Patients and General Practice Staff to Close Equity Gaps,…

August 25, 2026

Project 828 | Primary Care Pathways to junior parkrun

Project dates: 01/09/2026 - 31/08/2028 Phase: FR15 Project 828 Research Team Dr Rosina Cross Jessica Marshall Lead Institution Funded amount £159,621 Funding round FR15 Primary Care Pathways to junior parkrun: Developing and testing the feasibility and acceptability of a primary care pathway and toolkit connecting children and…

August 25, 2026

Project 827 | Continuity of care, equity, and health outcomes: A national routine data study

Project dates: 01/09/2026 - 30/04/2028 Phase: FR15 Project 827 Research Team Dr Polly Duncan Lead Institution Funded amount £149,948 Funding round FR15 Is general practice more fragmented for patients experiencing socio-economic deprivation and ethnic minority groups and does it worsen their health? A national routine data study Seeing…

August 25, 2026

Project 822 | Improving vaccine uptake and enhance safety surveillance: randomised clinical trial of a digitally enabled, culturally sensitive intervention in primary care, with enhanced vaccine safety surveillance (IMPRESS)

Project dates: 01/09/2026 - 29/02/2028 Phase: FR14 Project 822 Research Team Professor Simon de Lusignan Dr Dominik Zenner Lead Institution Funded amount £1,370,168 Funding round FR14 We are trying to understand how we can encourage adults who are reluctant to get vaccinated to get a vaccination.

August 25, 2026

Project 814 | Understanding Diagnostic Delays in Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer in England: A Mixed Methods Study of Predictors

Project dates: 01/04/2026 - 01/10/2027 Phase: PPIE Project 814 Research Team Natalie Thompson Kate Henaghan-Sykes Lead Institution Funded amount 2,000 Funding round PPIE Delays in diagnosing colorectal cancer in people under 50 are well documented in England, and these delays can lead to worse outcomes and higher…

August 25, 2026