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Opportunities
35 opportunities found
Have you had a recent social care needs assessment?
Location: All of England
Would you like to join our Experts by Experience Group?
BHF Healthcare Innovation Fund – Patient Reviewer
Location: London
Are you interested in shaping BHFs funding decisions?
Want to help us stop preventable infections?
Location: UK wide
Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) is looking for lay representatives for our guidelines
Opportunity to review for the MRC-NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme
Location: UK wide
Gonadotropin deficiency, pubertal induction, hypogonadism, Kallmann syndrome, male infertility
Patient and Public Involvement Advocate (Trial Committee Member)
Location: UK wide
We are advertising an exciting opportunity to take part in a research study on use of surgical mesh.
Patient/Public Advisor – Maternal long term health conditions
Location: UK wide
Do you have personal experience of maternal long term conditions or does someone close to you?
What do you think about dental implants for People Living with Type 2 Diabetes?
Location: UK wide
Explore insights on diabetes & oral health, including preferences for replacing missing teeth
Patient/ Public Representative – Cancer Inequalities Research Funding Panel for North West Cancer Research
Location: North West
Support North West Cancer Research decide which research projects to award funding to
Patient/ Public Representative – Applied Research Funding Panel for North West Cancer Research
Location: North West
Support North West Cancer Research decide which research projects to award funding to
Workshops discussing how the body is involved in mental health
Location: East of England
Have you been diagnosed with a mental health condition? We want to hear from you!
Exploring Types of Pain and Factors Associated with Pain after Stroke
Location: UK wide
Help us to design research that is useful to people who experience pain after stroke.
Black Public Contributors for the Advisory Group of a PhD Project
Location: UK wide, All of England
A Public Advisory Group for a project about public involvement
How can parents/guardians/carers help make medical care for children in general practice safer?
Location: Wales
Parents can prevent safety issues from occurring in primary care - request for workshop participants
Research Advisory Panel- Diabetes Medical Informatics and Epidemiology research group
Location: Scotland
Seeking people with diabetes in Scotland to become involved in our existing Research Advisory Panel
NIHR Public Committee Members
Location: UK wide
We are looking for members of the public to join our NIHR committees.
Member of Public and Patient Advisory Group for 2.5 year research project
Location: East Midlands
Patient with recent experience of hospitalisation for a severe infection and/or sepsis
Increasing engagement, involvement, and accessibility of research for adults who have ADHD and adults who use cannabis: a Patient and Public Involvement project
Location: UK wide
Discussion sessions for adults with ADHD, and adults who do and do not use cannabis
Heart Failure – Paid Opportunity – Do you have heart failure or look(ed) after someone with heart failure?
Location: UK wide
Be involved with this PhD project to refine and shape the design, analysis, and sharing of results
Evaluation of a new section about people’s experiences of dementia on Socialcaretalk.org
Location: UK wide
Understanding people's experiences caring for someone living with dementia
Delirium in mental illness study – looking for lived experience & carers
Location: UK wide
We want to improve the recognition of delirium in people with mental illness - with your help.
Public survey on breath testing in health and disease
Location: UK wide
National public survey on using a breath test to assess general health and detect cancer early
Supportive periodontal care: from the creation of a primary care GDP network, to the identification of implementation barriers.
Location: East of England, London
Collect feedback on patients' primary care experience following treatment at a specialist centre
Mothers who can remember their labour needed!
Location: All of England
We would like to interview mothers who have experienced labour pain and can remember it.
Be the voice of patients with dark skin tones for shaping research on recognising skin damage.
Location: UK wide
Be the voice of patients with dark skin tones for shaping research on recognising skin damage across
Nutritional Health Services in Pharmacy: Be the voice of the public for shaping research to improve nutrition advice in pharmacy practice.
Location: UK wide
An online session to identify views and expectations of nutrition advice in pharmacy practice.
Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA, or ‘mini-stroke’)
Location: UK wide
Opportunity to join Patient, Carer and Public Involvement Group for TIA Research Study
Autistic/parent advisors for NIHR-funded research project on feeding problems in autistic children
Location: UK wide
Looking for autistic children, young people and adults and parents for 2 advisory groups
A new study to look at Paediatric Robotic Lower Limb Exoskeleton
Location: UK wide
PPI help needed to support us developing the research proposal!
The use of the CUE1 device in people with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease and related disorders. A feasibility study.
Location: London
This study investigates the feasibility, safety, tolerability and effect of CUE1 in Parkinson's
Are you 18 to 29, not White British and looking after someone with a serious illness or complex health condition? Take part in an exciting new research project.
Location: UK wide
Ethnically diverse young adults experience's of looking after someone seriously unwell or disabled.
Co-design of a financial incentive intervention to increase pulmonary rehabilitation referral, uptake and completion in people with chronic lung conditions
Location: UK wide
Share your opinions on using financial incentives to encourage participation in pulmonary rehab.
Professor Simon Bach – Patient perspectives on the use of surgical robots in the NHS
Location: UK wide, West Midlands
Patient perspectives on the use of surgical robots in the NHS
ICANEQUAL: a UK-wide multistakeholder partnership to improve liver cancer treatment and care
Location: UK wide
We are looking for patients diagnosed with liver cancer, careers, health professionals & researchers
Experiences of Cancer and Cancer Care amongst Young People from Ethnically Minoritised backgrounds
Location: UK wide
🚨Share your experience to help us improve cancer care & earn £10 voucher🚨