Research news

CPFT is running a pilot project to increase access to effective treatment for severe mental health conditions psychosis and schizophrenia, funded by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Integrated Care System

Researchers at CPFT and the University of Cambridge have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool which outperforms clinical tests in predicting the progress of Alzheimer’s disease

CPFT has been selected as one of eight NHS Trusts joining a national innovation support scheme this year to ensure that local healthcare staff and patients can benefit from new technology

Researchers at CPFT and the University of Cambridge are co-leading national trials to identify accurate and rapid blood tests that can help to diagnose dementia

A study led by CPFT experts reviewing how medications are used in palliative care to support patients in the community has been published in a leading international nursing journal

CPFT’s Windsor Research Unit has been praised for successfully delivering one of the first studies in the UK to test new wearable devices to assess brain health and memory, in a new research partnership

Dr Anupam Bhardwaj, child and adolescent consultant psychiatrist at CPFT, has been appointed to lead a national committee to improve mental health care for young people

Clinical researchers at CPFT and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust have collaborated to model how many patients might receive potential new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease

CPFT researcher and consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Anna Moore has been named as one of the UK’s “most promising research leaders” winning national funding for their research and innovation projects

NHS England has published a report on children and young people’s mental health, which found that 20.3% of eight to 16-year-olds had a probable mental health condition in 2023

Expert colleagues at CPFT have contributed two new textbooks to the psychiatry canon, which have been published today