PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cardiovascular Diseases: Research (4 October 2024)

The Government, through the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR), is committed to funding high quality, timely research that leads to improved outcomes for patients and the public, and that makes the health and social care system more efficient, effective, and safe. Research evidence is vital for improving treatments and outcomes for people, including those with cardiovascular disease. The Department is proud to invest £1.5 billion per year on health research through the NIHR.

Over the past five financial years, from 2019/20 to 2023/24, the NIHR has invested £145.4 million on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and stroke research directly through NIHR research programmes. Our wider investments in NIHR infrastructure, strengthening specialist facilities, the workforce, and support services to enable research in the health and care system, have enabled significant CVD and stroke research funded by other funders to take place.

The NIHR welcomes funding applications for research into any aspect of human health, including CVD. As with other Government funders of health research, the NIHR does not allocate funding for specific disease areas.