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RD Annual Report SLaM Board, Nov 2005

• Graham Thornicroft
• Tom Craig
• Gill Dale

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RD Levy

• SLaMs RD income for 2005 - 06
• 25,424,842
• - 97 support for science underpins
  research
• - 3 priorities and needs direct
• research funding

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Threats to current funding

• Increasing pressure to account for spend in terms
  of impact of research on the NHS
• New DH RD Strategy
• Best Research for Best Health A New National
  Health Research Strategy
• Consultation ended 21 Oct 2005

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Increasingly Accountability to DH

• RD Annual Report
• Reporting on Priorities Needs Programmes
• MAJOR FOCUS ON IMPACT ON NHS POLICY AND PRACTICE
• National Research Register
• Quarterly RD spend at project level
• Research Governance
• this year Standards for Better Health

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RD Annual Report to DH

• Report on RD portfolio by priorities and needs
  programmes (SLaM leads on 19)
• Financial reporting of RD spend by programme
• Information requirement focuses on outputs for
  each programme
• How research impacts on the NHS
• Publications (peer reviewed journals)
• External grant funding
• Support for Higher Degrees

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Priorities and Needs Programmes

• A partnership approach to improving quality of
  life for individuals with bipolar disorders
• Better treatments for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Criminal and antisocial behaviour among persons
  with mental illness or personality disorder
• Effective Psychological Treatments for Anxiety
  Disorders
• Effective therapies for Addictions
• Effective therapies for eating disorders an
  evaluation of biological and psychological
  treatments
• Effective therapies for Psychosis Evaluation of
  biological and psychological treatments and
  patients experience of care
• Improving the quality of dementia care from
  aetiology to treatment
• Learning disabilities and mental health
• Mental health of Diverse Populations
• Modernising mental health services
• Perinatal psychiatric disorder causes,
  characteristics, identification, care and effects
  on infants
• Primary Care for people with common mental health
  problems
• Psychological / psychiatric aspects of physical
  disease
• Service user involvement in research
• Social inclusion of people with mental disorder
• Systematic reviews in mental health / Cochrane
  Depression Anxiety and Neurosis Group
• The carers experience and needs
• Understanding and treating major mental health
  problems in childhood

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Feedback on 2005 RD Report

• All 19 programmes rated strong
• Generally this is a very good Annual Report that
  demonstrates the excellent RD activity being
  undertaken by the Trust. We are pleased to see
  that many programmes are showing an increase in
  external funding and publications. However, the
  presentation of impacts needs to be improved.

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Feedback continued

• Impacts need to focus solely on providing
  explicit examples, in layman's terms, that
  demonstrate how research has led to changes in
  health service policy or practice.NB generic
  problem highlighted in generic feedback letter
• Note that 2 SLaM programmes are borderline
  moderate

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Action maximise our position

• Consider how best to present our portfolio
• Merge programmes?
• Develop more effective ways of demonstrating the
  impact of our research on NHS policy and practice
• Anticipate implementation of DH RD strategy

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DH RD Strategy

• Aims to develop transparent funding system,
  moving forward from historical allocations
  (Culyer funding)
• Seeks to develop system where funding follows
  activity
• Radical proposals put out for consultation (IoP
  and SLaM jointly responded)

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Key elements of the new DH RD Strategy

• Virtual Institute National Institute for Health
  Research with Faculty
• Academic medical centres generic and specialist
• Technology Platforms
• Research networks
• Expanded direct funding schemes

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IoP / SLaM Position

• Academic medical centres already a world class
  centre in mental health
• Technology Platforms strengths in imaging and
  genetic technologies
• Research networks already jointly leading UK
  Mental Health Research Network

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Risks

• Move towards more direct funding so less
  available to underpin research (NHS service
  support costs)
• Proposing to directly link funding to research
  activity to single measure participant
  recruitment doesnt take into account type of
  project / speciality
• potential to destabilise services