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Roles of Hydrogen Sulfide and its Metabolites in Neutrophil Function and Redox Signaling (NHS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

"Inflammation is a fundamental pathological event, which is described as a protective response to abnormal stimulus. However it is also responsible for a plethora of inflammatory diseases. A major role of hydrogen sulfide is suggested in inflammation, but published results are controversial. In large quantities it is toxic, but it is also produced inside the body during the metabolism of the amino ...
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Arrhythmias monitoring and comprehensive care (RITMOCORE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

...will be used to shape the Business Case and the High Level Specifications in RITMOCORE.RITMOCORE procurers are leading cardiac care hospitals: Sant Pau in Barcelona (Spain), Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Hospital (UK), Elisabeth-TweeSteden Hospital (NL) and the Regional Healthcare Trust of the Marche Region, with its hospital in Fermo (IT).
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ROGRESS (Promotion and Guidance for Recreation on Ecologically Sensitive Sites) (PROGRESS)

...veloping and improving relationships with local user groups and this will work for the future, but this can slow down the decision process. It also developed local working partnerships(e.g. FC and NHS) that have given great benefit to certain groups of the general public. It has also managed to protect sensitive habitats in both forests and change the approach to this sort of activity for the futu ...
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Cross Border Association of Public Health and Social Medicine (Cross Border Association)

Start date: Aug 31, 2007, End date: Dec 30, 2010,

...lisations / résultats :- 1 visite de la délégation de la Somme dans le Kent et dans le Medway réalisée du 27 au 29 janvier 2010 : Visite du siège du NHS West Kent.Présentation sur la santé publique et présentation générale des personnels du Département de la santé publique, de leurs rôles et de leurs missions.Présentation sur le rôle du Kent et du Medway Public Health Observatory.Visites de différ ...
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A Step towards zero eMissions goAl in Heath SectoR: BesT Practice Examples in Hospital Universitario Río Hortega (LIFE SMART Hospital)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

... Hospitals contribute to climate change because of their consumption of natural resources and the waste that they generate. For instance, the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) estimates its carbon footprint at over 18 million tonnes CO2/year, or 25% of the greenhouse gas emissions of the entire UK public sector. According to US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) est ...
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Hippokrates Exchange Programme, UK

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

...eks long. The project will take place over a 24 month period. Placements will be staggered according to when the participants can take study leave from their jobs within the National Health Service (NHS). The participants will be chosen from across the UK and will be representative of the diversity within the junior doctor population in terms of age, sex, religious beliefs and ethnic origin. In ...
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Mobilität erweitern

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

...ll send the trainees in the following partner instututions: Diakoniewerk Gallneukirchen - Austria , Gallneukirchen Diakoniewerk International - Romania , Sibiu Self-help Onlus - Bolzano , Italy CWP - NHS Foundation Trust - Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom The establishment Mariaberg hopes for a sustainable qualification of the trainees that go far beyond the current training addition , intensive co ...
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DivinE - Diversity in Europe

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: May 31, 2017,

...ll send the trainees in the following partner instututions: Diakoniewerk Gallneukirchen - Austria , Gallneukirchen Diakoniewerk International - Romania , Sibiu Self-help Onlus - Bolzano , Italy CWP - NHS Foundation Trust - Ellesmere Port, United Kingdom HABIT - Haus der Barmherzigkeit - Wien, Austria The establishment Mariaberg hopes for a sustainable qualification of the trainees that go far bey ...
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EVS language training

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

...rk of partner organisations and their cross-sector cooperation. The training will take place from 19th till 26th June 2016 in Cadca. The partners are AJP from Portugal, Instytut Inowacji from Poland, NHS from Hungary, LINK from Italy and EstYES from Estonia. Each partner will send 3 staff members or youth workers that will be involved in EVS projects running in the organisation in 2016 and 2017. K ...
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Hippokrates Exchange Programme, UK

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

...week observational role to a number of different European countries with established partners. The project will run over two years. Staggering placements will minimise any unnecessary strain on the NHS and allow participants and hosts to schedule mobilities at mutually convenient times. Participants will be recruited openly and transparently from across the UK using a well established processes an ...
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Elevate

Start date: Jul 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - the commissioning agent for vocational services to the recovery community has over recent months brought together 30 organisations with a focus on identifying and learning about Good Practice in education and training both within the UK and beyond. This Project seeks to introduce a new element to vocational training for people who are in recovery.The Partnership se ...
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Netzwerk/ICP Cardiff Mental Health Support: Sending Simon Deckert

Start date: Sep 1, 2011,

... problems, while fostering inter-cultural dialogue among volunteers, staff and clients alike.The project involves 11 EVS volunteers at a time, within the Mental Health Directorate of Cardiff & Vale NHS Trust, based at Whitchurch Hospital, St David’s Hospital, the University Hospital of Wales and in associated community-based mental health projects in Cardiff. The role of the volunteers is to bring ...
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TheraPD: Smart and safer automated peritoneal dialysis by means of sterile connectivity, bio-sensors control systems and more biocompatible solutions for preventing rapid degradation of peritoneal mem (TheraPD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

...uropeans) have kidney transplants or undergo a dialysis treatment because of irreversible end-stage renal disease (ESRD). This number has more than doubled over the past 15 years and involves 3-5% of NHS budgets. Current therapy consist in either a kidney transplant, haemodialysis connected to a machine at the hospital for at least 3h, 3 times a week, or the better-outcome cost-effective home-base ...
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Virtual Pathological Heart of the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH2)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

...has a high mortality (median survival around 18 months), and places a great burden on all healthcare systems, with estimated direct costs of £905m (?1350m) in the United Kingdom in 2000, 2% of total NHS expenditure.VPH2 aims to develop a patient-specific computational modelling and simulation of the human heart to assist the cardiologist and the cardiac surgeon in defining the severity and extent ...
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Quality of vision and subjective satisfaction in new non-spectacle systems for restoring accommodation in presbyopic people (ProVisione)

Start date: Mar 2, 2015, End date: Mar 1, 2017,

...s will be possible thanks to the expertise from 3 Universities (the Host University in UK, one in Italy and one in Germany respectively), 3 Clinical Structures (2 Private clinics in UK and Italy; 1 NHS clinic in UK), 2 private companies (Germany and Italy).ProVisione will involve a series of prospective and retrospective clinical studies that will be carried out on presbyopic patients from the cli ...
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KRTS - The Art of Losing Weight (KRTS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

...ve their weight loss goal. It can be accessed virtually from anywhere in the world using the Internet. A long term outcome of the programme will be to reduce the societal challenge of pressure on the NHS and other European Health Systems caused by obesity related problems. The problem to be solved is the rise in levels of obesity which has been seen in the UK and internationally.
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Spectra- A novel diagnostic device to improve retinal imaging (Spectra)

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

...f these diseases, in particular low-pressure glaucoma missed by ocular pressure tests. New markets also exist for diabetic eye screening programmes (DESP) in countries lacking the resources of the UK NHS. Teleopthalmology (enabled by Spectra Retineye) could deliver these. Both Spectra and Spectra Retineye can deliver economic benefits:• Reducing need for expensive equipment and highly-qualified ...
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Aligned, Quality-centric Software and Data Engineering (ALIGNED)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

...e new opportunities in web data. Information companies like Wolters Kluwer need better ways to extract web data and build applications on top of it. Public bodies like the UK National Health Service (NHS) need evolving systems for data collection and re-use. Web data publishers like DBpedia need new methods to improve data quality. Scientific publications, industry workshops, training programs, op ...
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Recognising Adverse Drug Reactions (WEB-RADR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

...xperience in managing successful pharmacovigilance and IT projects (E2B compliant web-forms for ADR reporting; integration with EudraVigilance; drug and medical dictionary mapping; integration with NHS electronic health records) as well as being a leading regulatory agency, helping to shape the current legislative framework.Establishing clear policies and guidance for stakeholders in the use of th ...
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"Design, verification and synthesis tools for cardiac pacemaker software" (VERIPACE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

... in (1) enhanced battery life, (2) decreased/eliminated replacement surgeries, (3) increased symptom relief, and (4) optimal pacing rates. We estimate this has the potential to save £32m for the NHS in the UK.The project arises from the results obtained in the first phase of the ERC Advanced Grant AdG-246967 VERIWARE (http://www.veriware.org/), which is concerned with sensor-enabled software-cont ...
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Genetic epidemiological investigation into the association between endometriosis and cutaneous melanoma (MELENDO2)

Start date: Aug 1, 2012, End date: Dec 28, 2015,

...he proposed research will combine cutting-edge genetics and genomics with traditional epidemiology to investigate the genetic overlap between endometriosis and melanoma in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) I & II, 2 prospective cohorts of 122,000 and 116,000 US nurses, respectively; and the “Etude Epidemiologique aupres de femmes de l’Education Nationale” (E3N), a prospective cohort involving 100,000 ...
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Long-Term e-Health Evolution for Improving Diabetic Social and Behavioural Change Management (LTe-health)

Start date: Jan 16, 2012, End date: Jan 15, 2014,

...ients according to their individual needs. A prototype system which incorporates all these emerging technologies will be developed and its performance will be evaluated with the collaborating medical NHS partners in the UK and other European collaborating institutes.
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Implementing and using patient-level information and costing systems (PLICS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,

"Objective of the research (What?) This research analyzes how a new cost accounting system - patient-level information and costing system (PLICS)- is embedded in NHS trusts. It aims to produce (a) a handbook for best practice of PLICS implementation and use for NHS trusts and to provide (b) critical analysis of system-wide factors interfering in this process. Background (Why?) The Department of He ...
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"Trends in hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations in people with and without diabetes in England, 1996-2005" (ENG-LEA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2011,

...ndardised, population-based data on LEA associated with diabetes are urgently needed, if these targets are to be achieved. The purpose of our study is to use national hospital admission data from all NHS hospitals in England from 1996 to 2005 to 1. provide standardized, population-based data on LEA associated with type 1 and type 2 diabetes; 2. evaluate changes in LEA rates in people with and with ...
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Early-life stressors and LifeCycle health (LIFECYCLE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Early life is an important window of opportunity to improve health across the full lifecycle. European pregnancy and child cohort studies together offer an unique opportunity to identify a wide range of early life stressors linked with individual biological, developmental and health trajectory variations, and to the onset and evolution of non-communicable diseases. LIFECYCLE will establish the Eur ...
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Paraplegia Prevention in Aortic Aneurysm Repair by Thoracoabdominal Staging with ‘Minimally-Invasive Segmental Artery Coil-Embolization’: A Randomized Controlled Multicentre Trial (PAPA-ARTIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Chronic aortic aneurysms are permanent and localized dilations of the aorta that remain asymptomatic for long periods of time but continue to increase in diameter before they eventually rupture. Left untreated, the patients’ prognosis is dismal, since the internal bleeding of the rupture brings about sudden death. Although successful treatment cures the disease, the risky procedures can result in ...
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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Molecules against Gram Negative Infections (COMBACTE-MAGNET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health threat, and most troublesome is the rapid emergence and dissemination of multidrug resistant (MDR) Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter species and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. There is an unmet medical need to prevent P. aeruginosa infection in critically ill patients and to develop new antibiotics for infections caused by Gram-negative bacte ...
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Boost Brittle Bones Before Birth (BOOSTB4)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is, in its severe forms, a devastating inherited disorder characterised by brittle bones. A person with severe OI is affected throughout their lifetime with repeated, multiple fractures, considerable pain and handicap. There is no curative or effective treatment for OI. Our preclinical studies and initial clinical cases have demonstrated that transplantation of fetal m ...
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Development of DIALIVE, a novel Liver Dialysis Device for the treatment of patients with Acute on Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF) (ALIVER)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Liver disease incidence is increasing and about 170K patients die from liver failure each year in Europe. In liver failure, the accumulation of protein bound toxins and increased susceptibility to infection cause multiorgan failure and death. Liver transplantation is the only treatment known to prolong the life but is limited by availability of organs. A clinically efficacious ‘liver dialysis devi ...
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iABC Programme (IABC PROGRAMME)

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2020,

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is a common fatal inherited disease with a frequency of 1 in 2500 live births, affecting approximately 36,000 (0.737/10,000) people in the EU. Chronic bacterial pulmonary infection leading to an irreversible decline in lung structure and function is the main cause of mortality and morbidity in patients with CF, with more than 95% of deaths due to respiratory failure. Pseudomon ...
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Evaluating mHealth technology in HIV to improve Empowerment and healthcare utilisation: Research and innovation to Generate Evidence for personalised care (EmERGE)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

EmERGE will develop a mHealth platform to enable self-management of HIV in patients with stable disease. The platform will build upon and integrate the existing mHealth solutions operated by pioneering healthcare providers in the UK and Spain and apply a rigorous co-design approach to ensure patient and clinician input to the solution. The platform will provide users with web based and mobile devi ...
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A Federated Collaborative Care Cure Cloud Architecture for Addressing the Needs of Multi-morbidity and Managing Poly-pharmacy (C3-Cloud)

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

C3-Cloud will establish an ICT infrastructure enabling a collaborative care and cure cloud to enable continuous coordination of patient-centred care activities by a multidisciplinary care team and patients/informal care givers. A Personalised Care Plan Development Platform will allow, for the first time, collaborative creation and execution of personalised care plans for multi-morbid patients thro ...
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Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (CENTER-TBI)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2020,

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a major cause of death and disability, leading to great personal suffering to victim and relatives, as well as huge direct and indirect costs to society. Strong ethical, medical, social and health economic reasons therefore exist for improving treatment. The CENTER-TBI project will collect a prospective, contemporary, highly granular, observational dataset of 5400 p ...
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Designing for People with Dementia: designing for mindful self-empowerment and social engagement (MinD)

Start date: Mar 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

This project aims to help people with dementia engage in social contexts to improve psychosocial wellbeing. People who are affected by Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias often face cognitive, behavioural and psychosocial difficulties, including impairment and degeneration of memory and of perceptions of identity. In a social context, this can cause difficulties of recognizing, relating to and ...
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Meaningful Integration of Data, Analytics and Services (MIDAS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Feb 29, 2020,

The MIDAS consortium is a partnership involving health authorities in five EU countries and the U.S. and technical big data experts from research institutions, MNCs and SMEs. Managing big data for ‘health in all’ is a monumental challenge for policy makers. MIDAS is addressing this challenge by developing and delivering an integrated solution which will liberate knowledge from data silos and unify ...
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European Security in Health Data Exchange (SHiELD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

SHiELD will unlock the value of health data to European citizens and businesses by overcoming security and regulatory challenges that today prevent this data being exchanged with those who need it. This will make it possible to provide better health care to mobile citizens across European borders, and facilitate legitimate commercial uses of health data.The exchange of health data is already possi ...
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DevelopIng Genetic medicines for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) (SCIDNET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) is a devastating rare disorder of immune system development. Affected infants are born without functional immune systems and die within the first year of life unless effective treatment is given. Treatment options are limited to allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation and autologous stem cell gene therapy. Over the last 15 years, gene therapy for ...
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Family-based intervention to improve healthy lifestyle and prevent Type 2 Diabetes amongst South Asians with central obesity and prediabetes (iHealth-T2D)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

South Asians, who represent one-quarter of the world’s population, are at high risk of type-2 diabetes (T2D). Intensive lifestyle modification (healthy diet and physical activity) is effective at preventing T2D amongst South Asians with impaired glucose tolerance, but this approach is limited by high-cost, poor scalability and low impact on T2D burden. We will complete a cluster-randomised clinica ...
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