Recent HTA coverage

Could new psychological treatment be a viable alternative to anti-depressants?

29 March 2010 - University of Bristol

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), an emerging psychological treatment which focuses on targeting negative thinking and behaviour, is the subject of new research at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter into ways to prevent relapse of depression without prescription drugs.

Could new psychological treatment be a viable alternative to anti-depressants?

29 March 2010 - PhysOrg.com

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), an emerging psychological treatment which focuses on targeting negative thinking and behaviour, is the subject of new research at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter into ways to prevent relapse of depression without prescription drugs.

Could new psychological treatment be a viable alternative to anti-depressants?

29 March 2010 - University of Exeter

The PREVENT trial is primed to answer this question, through a study made possible by a grant to the University of Exeter worth more than £1.8million from the National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme.

Up to £10 million funding for acute trauma research

29 March 2010 - Health Business

Research proposals for management of disability after trauma in a military or civilian context.

Grant Winners

25 March 2010 - Times Higher Education

The NIHR's Health Technology Assessment programme produces independent research information on the effectiveness, costs and impact of healthcare treatments and tests for those who plan, provide or receive NHS care. Listed here are the January-February 2010 grant awards.

Multi-Million Pound Trauma Reach Funding

22 March 2010 - Build.co.uk

Up to £10m of funding to research the affects of acute trauma, particularly for military personnel was announced today. The moneyis being made available for a National Institute of Health Research Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) call for research proposals concerning the management of disability after trauma.

Up to £10 million of funding to research the affects of acute trauma, particularly for military personnel was announced today by Health Minister Mike O’Brien

22 March 2010 - Central Office for Information

The investment forms part of the Department of Health’s ongoing commitment to provide care to service veterans and builds on investment over the last decade in research capacity in the field of acute trauma, repair, reconstruction and long-term rehabilitation.

NHS Diabetes publishes report on self monitoring of blood glucose

3 March 2010 - Diabetes.co.uk

An NHS diabetes report has been published which examines and makes recommendations regarding the subject of self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) amoungst those with type 2 diabetes who are not taking insulin.

CBT significantly improves low back pain in the short and long term

2 March 2010 - Medscape Today

March 2, 2010 — Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) significantly improves subacute and chronic low back pain both in the short term and during 1 year compared with advice alone and is highly cost-effective, new research suggests.

CBT sessions 'help' back pain

1 March 2010 - Nursing Times

"Back pain may be ‘in the mind’” reported The Daily Telegraph, saying that “researchers believe that counselling, or cognitive behavioural therapy [CBT] sessions, work because if you can help people change their thoughts, it will help them to change the way they feel”.

Researchers find community services effective but not necessarily cheaper

1 March 2010 - Practice Business

Community-based pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD is as effective as hospital-based services, according to NHS researchers.



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