1. What is a Themed Call? Increases the volume of high-quality research in line with national health priorities Provides new evidence on a theme from several points of view Promotes capacity building in key research areas Facilitates close collaboration between CCF, NETSCC and TCC

2. Offers a unique opportunity to work across NIHR with delivery and management of calls supported by colleagues at: INVOLVE Research Design Service NIHR Comprehensive Clinical Research Networks (CRNs) Builds successful partnerships with external stakeholders, particularly other funders such as the MRC and national charities. What is a Themed Call?

3. What have we achieved?

4. Successfully launched five cross-NIHR themed calls to date; dementia (2011), surgery (2012), very rare diseases (2012) primary care (2013), AMR (2013) Coordinating centres working seamlessly to deliver and manage the calls on behalf of NIHR c.a £23 million committed to dementia research with success acknowledged in the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia What have we achieved?

5. c.a £23 million committed to surgery research Delivered high profile researcher events and a writing workshop Recognition from all quarters Many new partnerships What have we achieved?

6. Themed calls as pump-primers Annual call on national priority decided by CMO Political sensitivity Potential for “mini themed calls” stimulated by programmes Increasing partnerships Future themed calls

7. Long-term conditions in CYP

8. “Our Children Deserve Better – Prevention Pays” (CMO, 2012) Rec 22: “The National Institute for Health Research should develop a research call to provide the evidence base to improve health outcomes for long-term conditions in childhood, to match the best worldwide” Provide new evidence on ways to reduce the high mortality, morbidity and inequalities in children and young people. Opportunities to evaluate a wide range of interventions which will provide important evidence to help guide future policy and practice in both healthcare and non-healthcare settings. Long-term conditions in CYP

9. CYP = up to 25 years All NIHR programmes plus TCC Opens 5 Feb Closes 21 May Decisions Feb 2015 Long-term conditions in CYP

10. Researcher event 5 Feb Dedicated website: http://www.themedcalls.nihr.ac.uk/http://www.themedcalls.nihr.ac.uk/ Webinars etc Writing workshop 7 March Long-term conditions in CYP