The NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) East Midlands is part of the NIHR and hosted by the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust in partnership with the University of Leicester and the University of Nottingham.
The NIHR funds, enables and delivers world-leading health and social care research that improves people’s health and wellbeing and promotes economic growth.
NIHR ARCs are regional collaborations between organisations that undertake applied health and care research. The NIHR has awarded £157 million over five years to 10 ARCs across England. ARCs support applied health and care research that responds to the needs of local populations and health and care systems.
Our work
ARC East Midlands brings together NHS organisations, universities, local authorities, charities, industry partners and communities across the East Midlands to deliver applied health and care research that improves people's lives.
The East Midlands is one of the most diverse regions in England, with stark health inequalities, significant deprivation and high proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds and in some areas and a wide mix of urban, rural and coastal communities. This makes it a uniquely important place to conduct applied research as it can have real impact across the region.
Our research is shaped by the people and its communities, to ensure findings are translated into real improvements in health and care services and address the most pressing local and national health and care priorities, as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan and the government's 10-Year Health Plan. This work is delivered across our five research themes
Our vision and objectives
"Making a difference for everyone"
Our mission is to make a difference for everyone living in the East Midlands and beyond. We will achieve this by:
- Delivering high-quality, person-centred research following national and regional health and care priorities, including responsive research and research that understands how change is achieved
- Embedding patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) and research inclusion throughout ARC East Midlands
- Continually innovating and leading in reducing health inequalities, ensuring research benefits those most in need
- Collaborating within and beyond ARC East Midlands, especially across the ARCs and with other NIHR infrastructures as part of One NIHR
- Driving the translation of research findings into practice at scale
- Developing the workforce by targeting internal and external research capacity and capability development to regional need, particularly in implementation, knowledge mobilisation, research inclusion, real-world evidence methods and health economics
- Partnering with industry to conduct research and generate economic gain for health and care systems