35 posts
By Jack Nash
14 October 2025
Every year, 29 million consultations occur in general practice across Ireland, highlighting primary care’s crucial role in delivering easily accessible healthcare. General practice is a prime example of community-based primary care and is often the first stop for many patients seeking healthcare. In this blog post, we will discuss the importance of primary care research […]
By Guest Author
08 February 2023
In light of World Cancer Day and International Childhood Cancer Day, we’re exploring how open access practices can help cancer research efforts, and help reduce the global impact of the disease.
By Name Surname
24 October 2022
COVID-19 took centre stage during World Mental Health Day on 10 October, with a focus on its impact on global mental health in a post-pandemic world. We explore some of the links between COVID-19 and mental health in our blog, and the cutting-edge research being published on HRB Open Research on this topic.
By Guest Author
31 May 2022
In this blog, we hear from two authors to better understand how collaborative approaches to healthcare research can improve patient care.
By Guest Author
31 March 2022
In this blog, three HRB-funded researchers outline simple ways we can improve patient care and outcomes by increasing uptake of patient screening.
By Guest Author
24 November 2021
Age is not an accurate indicator of the health of older adults. It also doesn’t tell us much about an individual’s healthcare needs. Aisling O’Halloran and Roman Romero-Ortuno, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, discuss frailty. Improving our understanding of its effect on the health of older adults will lead to fairer allocation of health and social care in Ireland.
By Guest Author
10 November 2021
Embedded patient researchers can amplify the patient voice to transform research and healthcare. In this blog, patient researcher Robert Joyce talks about his involvement with a trial at National University of Ireland, Galway. Thanks to Public and Patient Involvement (PPI) the trail design was changed to better fit the needs of people living with multiple sclerosis.
By Guest Author
07 September 2021
A team from National University of Ireland Galway published an Open Letter discussing iHealthFacts. In this blog post, first author, Marina Zaki, tells us how iHealthFacts.ie can help people check the reliability of health claims and make well-informed decisions about their own health.