In the UK, the main public funder of healthcare research is the National Institute for Health Research, or NIHR. In this podcast for Trials Change Lives, we asked Hywel Williams, Director of the NIHR’s Health Technology Assessment programme to outline the importance of clinical trials to this programme and health and social care more generally.

This podcast is part of the Trials Change Lives initiative, developed by the MRC Network of Hubs for Trials Methodology Research in partnership with the Northern Ireland Network for Trials Methodology Research. Free posters are available to download methodologyhubs.mrc.ac.uk/research/trials-change-lives.