The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) will share the funding across four NHS organisations in London, Leeds, Newcastle and Oxford. These places will seek to become national centres of expertise called NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-operatives.
NIHR Diagnostic Evidence Co-operatives will aim to bring together a wide range of experts and specialists from across the NHS and industry, including clinicians and other healthcare professionals, patients, NHS commissioners and researchers and will investigate a number of different clinical areas: