PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health Services: Equality (14 July 2022)

Through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), the Department has funded research to understand the causes of health disparities in ethnic communities. The NIHR’s Policy Research Programme is currently funding the study ‘Digital interventions for cardiometabolic disease in South Asians - a case study for opportunities, risks and inequalities in digital health’, to explore the causes of differential uptake, use and effectiveness of digital health interventions between ethnic groups and how this can be addressed.

The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including the causes of ethnic disparities in healthcare. Applications are subject to peer review and judged in open competition, with awards being made on the basis of the importance of the topic to patients and health and care services, value for money and scientific quality.