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(From Government News Network (Was Hermes-Government Press Releases))
] DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 2005/0276 1 August 2005 GOVERNMENT CONSULTS ON WORLD-CLASS HEALTH RESEARCH STRATEGY
The Department of Health today launched a consultation on proposals for a new modernised National Health Research Strategy. The views of research professionals, organisations, patients and the public are being sought on the future direction of health research for the Department of Health and the NHS in England.
The strategy aims to ensure the NHS supports the Government's commitment to positioning the UK as the best place in the world for health research, development and innovation. The proposed changes include:
- Modernising the way research in the NHS is funded - to ensure a transparent system of funding that more accurately reflects the levels of health research conducted by NHS Trusts.
- Establishing a set of Academic Medical Centres - to serve as the nation's premier research hospitals and compete with other top clinical research institutes throughout the world.
- Creating the National Institute for Health Research - a virtual institute to work with the UK Clinical Research Collaboration to co-ordinate the research infrastructure of the NHS. This would bring together, for the first time, all elements of NHS and Department of Health research.