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Brown shakes up health research.(Gordon Brown)

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Byline: Laura Smith

Brown shakes up health research

Laura Smith

Medical research institutions and funding bodies have given a cautious welcome to proposals that will overhaul the public funding of health research in the UK and encourage greater co-operation between the public and private sectors.

The proposals are rooted in a review ordered by the chancellor, Gordon Brown, in March last year to examine the best institutional arrangements for a new, ring-fenced single fund to support health research, and announced in the pre-Budget report.

Published in December, the review by Sir David Cooksey proposed a package of measures, which it said would make the arrangements for research funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Department of Health more coherent and the system better able to translate research into improved information and treatments for patients.

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