NIHR Innovation Observatory are thrilled to announce their two-day Futures, Foresight & Horizon Scanning Conference taking place in person on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th November 2024. Mark your calendars and get ready to embark on …
The innovation opportunity for preventative healthcare is huge, yet products, services and concepts that could improve health, fitness and quality of life struggle to find routes to adoption. Some of …
With widening health inequalities and stalling life expectancy, the new government faces huge challenges in ensuring a ‘fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer’. Improving health and reducing health …
Course overview This three-day course will give delegates an excellent grounding in the basics of biomedical statistics, as well as provide a detailed introduction to other courses offered by the health data science team. It looks at the most commonly used study designs in biomedical health research, giving the background to the theory but also …
This expert-led session, introduced by Tim Lane, Editor-In-Chief of Surgery International, will feature an international panel of leading vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists who will discuss cutting-edge endovascular practices and the evolving landscape of treatment for Critical Limb Ischaemia (CLI). Panel: Lorenzo Patroni (Consultant Vascular Interventional Radiologist - Florence, Italy) Tjun Tang (Consultant Vascular Surgeon - Singapore) Kaji Sritharan (Consultant …
This course is aimed at researchers who require a basic understanding of R software as part of their research studies. It is suitable for those who have no previous experience of R, as well as those seeking to refresh their skills. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is available …
This module is aimed at researchers in the laboratory and medical fields. It is suitable for those who have no previous experience of data analysis, as well as those seeking to refresh their skills. Understanding the assumptions and characteristics of statistical methods is important in order to obtain the correct analysis and biological interpretation of …
This course examines the application of models to predict a binary response variable from categorical and continuous predictor variables. Participants will also learn to apply these methods using SPSS software, as well as find out how to interpret their results.
This course is suitable for those who have no previous experience of data analysis, as well as those seeking to refresh their skills. Time-to-event data are collected when individuals are followed over time. This course aims to provide grounding in statistical concepts and methods for the analysis of time-to-event data. Course participants will also gain …
Have you ever wondered what kind of research the Blood and Transplant Research Unit in Organ Donation and Transplantation (BTRU in ODT) does? How donated organs become part of a research project? What a clinical trial is? Or what the role of a Specialist Nurse in Organ Donation (SNOD) is? Join the BTRU ODT on …
This course is aimed at researchers who require a basic understanding of prediction modelling as part of their research studies. It is suitable for those who have no previous experience of prediction modelling, as well as those seeking to refresh their skills. Clinical prediction models combine multiple pieces of patient information in order to predict …
The Global Challenge of Chronic Wounds : Our second workshop gives participants the opportunity to discover our latest research findings and discuss how these can be used to better wound dressing performance in many different scenarios worldwide.  Please come and take part - refreshments and lunch will be provided - our invited speakers are sure …