Nihr MCP server

@pipeworx/nihr

UK NIHR MCP — every research and training award made by the National Institute for Health and Care Research: who was funded, which programme, how much, where, and which health category. Keyless.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.

Tools

• nihrsearchawards(...) — keyword search over award titles and abstracts, with filters on programme, funding stream, status, organisation, award amount and start date. Sortable by value or start date.
• nihrgetaward(project_id) — one award in full: both abstracts, value, dates, HRCS/UKCRC health coding, organisation with postcode and lat/lon, funding-and-awards link, and every named award holder with ORCID and role.
• nihrawardsby_organisation(organisation, ...) — all NIHR awards to an institution (forgiving substring match), with total funded GBP, mean award, the organisation-name variants that matched, and a per-programme breakdown.
• nihrawardholders(...) — chief investigators and co-applicants by name, ORCID or project id, returning their project ids to pivot into nihrgetaward.
• nihrawardsby_programme(...) — award counts, total value, mean size and date range grouped by programme, funding stream, programme type or programme stream. Call with no arguments to discover the real programme names.

Auth

None. The NIHR Opendatasoft portal is fully open — no key, no signup, no per-key quota.

Data sources

• Portal: https://nihr.opendatasoft.com/
• Dataset catalogue: https://nihr.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets?limit=40 (26 datasets)
• Awards (primary, 11,502 rows): https://nihr.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/nihr-summary-view/records
• Award holders (12,644 rows): https://nihr.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/award-holders-table/records
• Public record per award: https://fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/

Other datasets on the same portal, not yet wired into this pack: nihr-infrastructure-supported-projects (45,258), infonihr-award-hrcs-rac-coding-and-apportionment (14,301), infonihr-award-hrcs-coding-and-apportionment (13,771), iat-data (6,275 integrated academic training), coded-portfolio (1,964), phof-datase (1,585 public health), nihr-open-data-global-health-downstream-partner-data (1,528), schools-data (1,022), rare-diseases-research-landscape-project (787), womens-health-curated-portfolio (691), prp_dataset (509).

Gotchas

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.