The NIHR Heath Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme invites outline research proposals on the following topics: Primary Research:

• Quitting smoking in pregnancy and following childbirth
  
• Interventions for preventing occupational irritant hand dermatitis in the NHS
  
• Immunisation of children and young people looked after by the state
  
• Surveillance programmes for people with inflammatory bowel disease
  
• Cystatin C test in the assessment of renal function
  
• Elemental/polymeric nutrition for the maintenance of remission in Crohn's disease
  
• Radiofrequency renal sympathectomy for the treatment of resistant essential hypertension
  
• Surgical treatments for moderate urinary incontinence in men after prostate surgery
  
• Early specialist palliative care for patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer
  
• Interventions for psychosexual dysfunction after treatment for gynaecological malignancy
  
• Psychological treatments for fatigue in patients with inflammatory arthritis
  
• Long acting reversible contraception for secondary prevention of endometriosis Primary Feasibility Study
  
• An interventional package for parents of excessively crying infants
  
• Timing of intravenous fluids after trauma Evidence Synthesis
  
• Screening for hyperglycaemia in pregnancy IPD (Evidence Synthesis)
  
• HbA1c targets for patients with type 2 diabetes
  
• Monitoring patients with chronic heart failure
  

The deadline for outline submissions is 1pm on 12 February 2012.