BHP’s health inequality lead set to head up NIHR Challenge Maternal Disparities Consortium
Professor Joht Singh Chandan – BHP’s heath inequalities lead and Clinical Professor of Public Health at the University of Birmingham – has been announced as co-lead of a new consortium which will r…
Looking back while moving forwards – BHP publishes annual review of activity
Following a year in which we appointed a new chair, launched an ambitious new strategy and welcomed a sixth NHS member organisation as a BHP member, we are pleased to publish our third annual revie…
One year in: Birmingham Health Partners drives progress in reducing bureaucracy in clinical trials
Birmingham Health Partners (BHP) is marking a year of transformative work on its Reducing Bureaucracy in Clinical Trials programme, which launched in November 2023 with the aim of establishing Birm…
Most accurate ultrasound test could detect 96% of ovarian cancers
An ultrasound test that detected 96% of ovarian cancers in postmenopausal women should replace the current standard of care test in the UK, according to a new study by BHP members.
In a paper pu…
Birmingham opens Europe’s first pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine trial
Researchers at BHP founding-members University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) and the University of Birmingham have opened a trial to study how messenger RNA (mRNA) cancer vaccines…
Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science and Innovation director appointed
Leading AI healthcare expert Professor Alastair Denniston has been appointed Director of the Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science and Innovation (BHP-CRSI).
Professor Dennist…