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Point-of-care and self-testing for potassium

Monday June 20, 2022

Kalium Health is a spin out company established by clinicians and academics at the University of Cambridge and Cambridge University Hospitals. The original driver of their work was a simple patient proposal to create a handheld device to reliably measure blood potassium from home. Kalium Health have made great strides so far, and are currently […]

PLRH quarterly: April

Monday April 4, 2022

Time for our April quarterly already! We share our latest rare disease stats and report on two of our new rare disease proposals! Read it here, and consider signing up to our mailing list (here).

Lithium might reduce the risk of dementia

Tuesday March 22, 2022

A massive congratulations to Dr Shanquan Chen, Dr Rudolf Cardinal and colleagues at Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust for their latest publication: Association between lithium use and the incidence of dementia and its subtypes: A retrospective cohort study This is not a PLRH-related study, but it did arise from earlier work we did with […]

‘Co-Producing Research with the PLRH’ webinar recording

Wednesday February 2, 2022

With many thanks to the NIHR Cambridge BRC, our first webinar recording is now available! Watch the link here, and consider subscribing to the NIHR Cambridge BRC’s YouTube account to see more of their events. A big thank you, of course, to our speakers and panellists (Prof Miles Parkes, Allison Watson, Dr Sara Booth, Tess […]

our first PLRH webinar!

Monday January 10, 2022

Join us 12-1pm, Tuesday, 25 January 2022, for our first PLRH webinar! Bring your lunch, and learn more about how we co-produce research with patient organisations and charities. Launched in partnership with the Cambridge BRC, we will be joined by Prof Miles Parkes (NIHR Cambridge BRC Director), Allison Watson (Ring20 Research and Support UK), Sara […]

PLRH quarterly: January

Tuesday January 4, 2022

Happy Holidays! May 2022 be full of only good things for you and yours! Thank you to everyone for your support and patience throughout 2021 – we look forward to a great new year of co-production! Have a look at our latest newsletter (here) for our PLRH summary stats, and a fantastic new PPI resource […]