PRU-MNHC
The Policy Research Unit in Maternal and Neonatal Health and Care (PRU-MNHC) began a programme of work in January 2019 with funding from the Policy Research Programme at the Department of Health and Social Care (England) via the National Institute for Health Research.
Clinical Trials Unit
The NPEU Clinical Trials Unit (NPEU CTU) is a fully registered UKCRC Clinical Trials Unit and typically runs a number of large multi-centre Randomised Controlled Trials.
SHEER
The NPEU also conducts Social Sciences, Health Economics and Epidemiological Research (SHEER) which includes on-going influential studies.
Non-invasive screening for fetal abnormalities in the first trimester of pregnancy is cost-effective for the NHS
A new joint study between researchers at Oxford Population Health's National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, the Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health, and the University of Exeter Medical School has found that screening for eight major structural fetal anomalies during the routine ultrasound scan offered in the first trimester of pregnancy is likely to be cost-effective for the NHS. The study is published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology.
