How does the social care side work?

HSDR covers both health and social care, including local authority-hosted research. Bidwell drafts the cross-sector partnership narrative against your existing arrangements.

Yes, and core to the scoring. Bidwell drafts the PPI plan against your institution's involvement infrastructure.

What about the impact pathway?

HSDR research is judged on its likely impact on services. Bidwell drafts the route-to-implementation narrative against your prior pathway-to-practice work.

UK framework agreement

NIHR HSDR

NIHR HSDR funds research that improves the quality, organisation and delivery of health and social care services in the UK. NIHR publishes no fixed funding limit or duration. Mixed-methods, applied and evaluative work is core.

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lots

suppliers on the framework

Right fit if

UK university and NHS / local authority PIs working on health services research, social care, implementation science and care-delivery innovation.

Wrong fit if

Not for clinical efficacy trials (use HTA), and not for biomedical discovery (use MRC).

Lots in this framework

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Commissioned call (themed priorities)
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Researcher-led call (responsive)
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Stakeholder-led research (co-design routes)

How Bidwell helps you bid on NIHR HSDR

Bidwell drafts the HSDR application from your prior applied health research, evaluation work, qualitative methods and service-improvement record. Implementation and impact sections benefit particularly from reuse.

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Bidwell vs NIHR HSDR, in short

Mixed methods, qualitative, quantitative, implementation science, realist evaluation, co-production. Bidwell adapts the methods narrative to the proposed design.

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