UK:Funding: National Institute of Health and Care Research: NICE rolling call (Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme), closes 6th Dec 2022

[Andy]

The Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme is accepting Stage 1 applications to this funding opportunity. The programme is interested in receiving applications to meet recommendations in research identified in NICE guidance that has been published or updated since 2015.

Proposals must be within the remit of the EME Programme and the primary outcome measure must be health related. (This call is also open in the Public Health Research (PHR), Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programmes for proposals which fall within the remit of those programmes - applicants should apply directly to the relevant programme).

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/22109-nihr-nice-rolling-call-eme-programme/31199


The recommendations for research made in the NICE guideline for ME/CFS can be found here, https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng206/chapter/Recommendations-for-research

 

[rvallee]

Has something been said about the defiant opposition from most clinics and services? How many of them are clearly and explicitly using language that is either very duplicitous (NICE recommends CBT when it says make it available if demanded) or even explicitly trying to work around (GET not called GET). I don't think it's normal. Or I really hope so anyway.

Because that's the main obstacle, and it's not even subtle, it was loudly announced they would do that. It says very uncomfortable things about so-called evidence-based medicine and patient-hostile, or maybe patient-indifferent, care.

It's simply not normal to have professionals engaging in mass sabotage like this. Healthcare seems generally unable to look inward, but that's really why things are so broken. This refusal is especially bizarre given it's happening alongside Long Covid, a mess of equal proportion.

It's not research on ME, but research on ME is explicitly blocked because of this. Alongside maintaining a debunked ideological framework. That deserves a whole lot of research, it's so bizarre.

 

[Trish]

Here is more about the research program covered by this, from their documents:
https://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/funding-programmes/efficacy-and-mechanism-evaluation.htm

The Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme funds ambitious studies evaluating interventions with potential to make a step-change in the promotion of health, treatment of disease and improvement of rehabilitation or long-term care. Within these studies, EME supports research in the mechanisms of diseases and treatments. EME is a partnership between the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the NIHR.

The EME Programme looks to attract studies with novel methodological designs that deliver results more efficiently, reduce the study timeline, and maximise the knowledge gained. The translational research it supports covers a wide range of new and repurposed interventions, such as diagnostic or prognostic tests and decision-making tools, therapeutics or psychological treatments, medical devices, and public health initiatives delivered in the NHS.