For NHS R&D office leads
More NIHR applications. Same team. Clinical PIs back in clinic.
NHS R&D offices are squeezed between clinical PIs with no time to write, NIHR deadlines that do not move, and HRA submissions that have to be exact. Bidwell drafts the application from the call and the prior record so the office reviews rather than authors.
Clinical time protected
for the PIs who can least afford to lose it
More NIHR submissions
per office, same staff
Aligned submissions
across NIHR, HRA and trust sponsorship
Sound familiar
The bits of the job that should not be this hard
A clinical PI lands at the R&D office with a NIHR call and four weeks. They have three clinics that week.
The same trial methodology paragraph gets re-typed for every related submission.
IRAS / HRA submissions and the NIHR application share most of their content but get drafted in parallel from scratch.
You sponsor the trial. You write half the application. You also chase the protocol amendments.
How Bidwell helps
The shape of the day, after Bidwell
NIHR-shaped first drafts
Bidwell knows the structure of NIHR i4i, HSDR, HTA, PGfAR and AMS calls. It drafts each section against the published assessment criteria so reviewers see something to react to rather than a blank case for support.
One trial, every submission
Bidwell pulls the trial methodology, recruitment plan, outcomes framework and patient and public involvement narrative into every related submission: NIHR application, HRA / IRAS forms, ethics, sponsor checks. Re-typing dies.
Clinical PIs back in clinic
PIs review the draft and approve the science rather than write the application from blank. R&D office stays in charge of compliance, costings and sponsor obligations.
Local trust intelligence built in
Bidwell uses your trust's prior applications, recruitment performance, R&D capacity statements and PPI infrastructure as the source for every new draft. The trust shows up consistently across applications.
Frequently asked
Bidwell for nhs r&d leads, in short
It drafts the application content and the matching HRA / IRAS narrative from the same underlying trial design. The two stop diverging because they come from the same source.
Stop spending weeks on paperwork.
Set up takes 15 minutes. First tender draft inside the hour.
No credit card. Cancel any time. From £15 per month.