Press Releases

NWeH awarded funding from NWDA

The Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) has approved an investment of almost £5 million for the development of a groundbreaking new project to support the Northwest’s biohealth sector and the public’s health.

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Governance Committee for NWeH now in place

NWeH has been approved by the Research Ethics Society to be a health data repository with ongoing requests for research and data analysis to be reviewed by a local independent governance board.

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NWeH wins best paper prize

NWeH has won Best Paper award in the HealthGrid09 conference at the June 2009 meeting for the paper entitled “Preserving consent-for-consent with feasibility-assessment and recruitment in clinical studies: FARSITE architecture” written by NWeH Chi Read More..

NWeH become first organisation to be granted ongoing ethical approval to use databank

NWeH have successfully received ethics committee approval to continually access and conduct studies on integrated and anonymised Health Care Data across multiple sites. Nationally, NWeH is the first organisation to have achieved this status. < Read More..