Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Best Research for Best Health The new DH research strategy Challe

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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustBest Research
for Best Health The new DH research
strategyChallenges and Opportunities for 07/08

• Dr S W Smye
• Director of RD
• Leeds Teaching Hospitals

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DH RD Strategy (2006)

• virtual National Institute of Health Research
• Complete recasting of all RD funding (gt500m)
  as series of directed programmes and schemes
• Research centres (100m)
• Programme grants (75m)
• Clinical Research Networks
• RfPB, Invention for Innovation and Technology
  Platforms
• strong emphasis on HSR, HTASDO
• support costs for DH and DH research partners
• no own account funding
• Ref www.nihr.ac.uk

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National Institute for Health Research
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals RD (06/07)

• 10.3m DH RD Support Funding (06/07).
• 16 programmes, 792 active projects
• Programmes reflect grant spend (gt 15m,
  University lead)
• DH assesses each programme - 15 strong, 1
  moderate (05/06).
• 80 of 10.3m supports external grants

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Key next steps

• form partnerships
• CTRU, IHSPHR, Primary care, Public Health
• CRUK, BHF, ARC programme grant activity
• Industry
• NIHR/Programme/RfPB grant applications
• LTH investment of 300k pa in CTRU for grant
  development
• Targetted workshops

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Aim of today

• To agree strong and collaborative outline
  proposals for NIHR Applied Programmes and RfPB
• To identify a coordinating applicant for each
  proposal

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A trio of services providing access to details of
research funding, training and advice
www.rdinfo.org.uk 0113 2951122 info_at_rdinfo.org.uk
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