04.04.12
£6.2m for diagnostics system
A partnership in Manchester has been awarded £6.2m to develop an online system to improve diagnosis of rare diseases and cancers.
The University of Manchester and NHS Greater Manchester have been funded by the National Institute for Health Research to improve safety in hospitals and GP surgeries. The internet-based tool will be used to help identify symptoms of cancers and rare diseases.
Prof Aneez Esmail said: “We are delighted to have been successful and it reflects on the strength of research in primary care that is carried out inManchester.
“Patient safety in primary care is an important problem that is under researched and we are committed to developing innovations with our partners to make the care that patients receive from their general practitioners safer.
“We have set out an ambitious programme of research and we will be working closely with our local communities of patients and general practitioners to ensure that areas such as prescribing and dispensing of medications, the diagnosis of diseases and the way that care is coordinated is improved and made safer.”
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