This post offers an exciting opportunity for a skilled health services researcher to join the Musculoskeletal Research Unit at the University of Bristol Medical School. The post-holder will work on a prestigious NIHR-funded Programme Grant for Applied Research – “Making Implants safer and more Cost-Effective for patients and the National Health Service” (MICE). The project. This research programme aims to develop and test an implementation-ready framework for the ongoing evaluation (the MICE framework) of surgical implants used in the NHS. We anticipate that this ground-breaking programme will improve how implants are evaluated in the NHS, addressing evidence gaps in long-term and rare outcomes, and enhancing equity by focusing on under-represented groups.

The Research Fellow will conduct work to assess the implementation of the MICE framework – an evaluation framework for surgical implants that uses Real World Data. The role invol...