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The NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative (HIC) is a partnership of NHS trusts, organisations and health boards, including those hosting NIHR Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs), working together to facilitate the equitable re-use of NHS data for translational research. The NIHR HIC has established cross-site data collaborations in areas such as cardiovascular medicine, critical care, renal disease, infectious diseases,  cancer and more.

Recent News

08 February 2024 The NIHR HIC welcomes its 35th collaborator, Whittington Health NHS Trust

11 July 2023 NIHR HIC Viral Hepatitis Theme collaborate on paper published in Infectious Diseases and Therapy. Read more…

01 July 2023 The new NIHR HIC Data Sharing Framework commences from 1 July 2023, a full list of collaborators is available here.

23 June 2023 NIHR HIC Viral Hepatitis Theme publishes poster for the EASL 2023 Congress 2023. Read more…

14 July 2022 NIHR HIC Renal Transplantation Theme publishes paper in Frontiers in Nephrology. Read more…

23 June 2022 NIHR HIC Colorectal Cancer Theme publishes paper in BMJ Health and Care Informatics along with a review from the Patient and Public Group (PPG) of Bowel Cancer Intelligence UK (BCI-UK). Read more…

16 June 2022 NIHR HIC Viral Hepatitis Theme publishes paper in the International Journal of Epidemiology (IJE). Read more…

Archived News

03 February 2023 The NIHR HIC welcomes its 34th collaborator, Birmingham Womens & Childrens NHS Foundation Trust

02 December 2022 The NIHR HIC welcomes its 33rd collaborator, NHS Blood and Transplant

08 November 2022 The NIHR HIC welcomes its 32nd collaborator, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde

27 October 2022 The NIHR HIC welcomes its 31st collaborator, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

26 April 2022 NIHR HIC Cardiovascular Theme publishes paper in the International Journal of Cardiology. Read more…

09 March 2022 NIHR HIC Cardiovascular Theme publishes paper in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Read more…

24 February 2022 NIHR HIC Cardiovascular Theme publishes paper in Plos Medicine. Read more…

11 February 2022 NIHR HIC Viral Hepatitis Theme publishes article on Wellcome Open Research. Read more… 

2 December 2021 NIHR HIC Viral Hepatitis Theme selected as poster prize winner at FIS Conference. Read more… 

15 October 2021 The NIHR HIC welcomes its 30th collaborator, Croydon Health Service NHS Trust.

29 July 2021 The NIHR HIC welcomes its 29th collaborator, Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust. 

01 July 2021 NIHR HIC Critical Care Theme publishes paper in Critical Care Medicine. Read more…

26 June 2021 NIHR HIC Viral Hepatitis Theme publishes paper in BMC Infectious Diseases. Read more…

06 May 2021 New NIHR HIC Myeloma data collaboration established in partnership with Myeloma UK. Read more…

30 April 2021 NIHR HIC Viral Hepatitis Theme publishes paper in Hepatology Communications. Read more…

04 March 2021 The NIHR HIC welcomes its 28th collaborator, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

20 January 2021 Manchester BRC director highlights important NIHR HIC work. Read more…

04 January 2021 The NIHR HIC welcomes its 27th collaborator, Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

01 December 2020 The NIHR HIC welcomes its 26th collaborator, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.

19 November 2020 NIHR HIC Viral Hepatitis Theme publishes first collaborative paper. Read more…

14 October 2020 NIHR HIC Viral Hepatitis Theme publishes second paper.Read more…

13 September 2020 The NIHR HIC are supporting a new study to review the impact of a digital alert system to monitor patients with sepsis at NHS hospitals.  Read more…

27 August 2020 NIHR HIC Cardiovascular Theme publishes third paper in The Lancet. Read more…

22 May 2020 NIHR HIC COVID-19 data collaboration launched. Read more…

03 July 2020 NIHR HIC is hiring: we’re looking for a Project Support Manager to join the Coordinating Centre. Read more…

NIHR HIC welcomes its 25th collaborator: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. 

NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative is hiring. We’re looking for a Programme Manager with a flexible base… Read more…

NIHR publishes blog post. The post focuses on  how the NIHR HIC is maximising NHS data for translational research… Read more…

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