Access to world class care for as many patients as possible relies on faster and more accurate diagnosis. Earlier interventions for diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, neurogenerative, cardiovascular disease or COVID-19 will deliver improved patient outcomes. Our work is supporting earlier diagnostics through a proposed national digital infrastructure for population-level studies. The improved infrastructure will provide patient stratification data and more effective disease management to increase confidence and reproducibility in diagnosis and treatment. This will be enabled by the digitisation of the NHS including digital pathology and radiology, and the use of artificial intelligence or machine learning tools where appropriate.
This work will help address healthcare challenges which include:
Our research experts are supporting programmes through:
The programmes above are underpinned by our work as the UK’s National metrology institute and the realisation and maintenance of SI units along with primary and secondary standards.
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Our researchers are at the forefront of new innovations that promise to deliver new solutions to healthcare challenges, and also play a vital role in providing the standards and assurance to accelerate their route to market. Learn more about our research areas and working with our experts.
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The Grand Challenge, a new Cancer Research UK initiative, aims to overcome the biggest challenges facing cancer researchers in a global effort to beat cancer sooner Funded through the scheme, NPL's Professor Josephine Bunch leads a group of international and multidisciplinary chemists, physicists and biologists from the UK to develop a reproducible, standardised way to fully map tumours with extraordinary precision.
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