Forever Keele Issue 10 | 2015 | Page 70

ONE YEAR JUL AUG SEP PROFESSOR NADINE FOSTER IS AWARDED £1.18 MILLION GRANT KEELE STUDENTS ARE THE HAPPIEST IN THE COUNTRY DUKE OF GLOUCESTER KG GCVO VISITS KEELE Professor Nadine Foster is awarded an NIHR Health Technology Assessment grant of £1.18 million for a randomised trial that seeks to improve the primary care management of patients with sciatica through a new approach called stratified care. There is no UK National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence guidance about the best way to treat sciatica patients and little previous research specifically on this patient population. The new stratified care approach combines systemati