Title: Research and Development Strategy (Draft) 2013 – 2018
Source: NHS England
Publication format: PDF
Date of publication: Dec 2013
Summary of driver: The NHS England research strategy supports the goals set out in the NHS England business plan (NHS England 2013); supporting and developing the commissioning system to improve quality and outcomes. It seeks to develop a culture in the NHS that values and promotes research and engages staff and patients in research activities for improved healthcare outcomes.
Key features of driver:
Key Objectives:
• Working closely with Department of Health (DH) and National Institute for Health and Research (NIHR) to coordinate research into commissioning health services;
• Develop an evidence base to support effective decision making by commissioning groups;
• Enable NHS England and commissioning staff to undertake and implement research in order to help improve the quality of care and treatment in the NHS;
• Encourage patients to take part in research and to be considered when setting priorities for research;
• Better inform the public on current research and outcomes from completed research;
• Maximise outcomes from research to stimulate innovation, improve income generation, develop knowledge and achieve impact.
Key Priorities:
• Promote non-commercial and commercial research in the NHS that have the greatest impact on outcomes;
• Engage with clinical leaders across all professions, with academia, industry, and with non clinical researchers in health and social care;
• Support the NHS Outcomes Framework 2014-15 and innovative practice as outlined in Innovation, Health and Wealth, Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion in the NHS (2011)
• Develop a patient engagement and involvement in research strategy
Primary audience: NIHR, Health Research Authority, Clinical Commissioning leads, NHS Trusts.
Impact on library policy/practice:
• Opportunity to engage with clinical commissioning groups and encourage evidence-based decision making – for example, outsourcing library services to CCGs/CSUs where appropriate;
• Responsibility to support the dissemination of clinical research outcomes to wider stakeholders, including patient groups;
• Responsibility to disseminate NICE guidelines and other high quality research to clinical teams and managers to help foster research awareness, translation of research evidence into practice and the rapid adoption of innovation within local NHS Trusts.
• Good practice to identify clinical and non-clinical priorities within the Trust and provide evidence update services to assist teams / managers with health service planning (e.g. pathway re-design), clinical improvement, commissioning plans and health systems design;
• Good practice to support effective knowledge transfer pathways /systems within local Trusts by ensuring that the library service has clear relationships with key departments and effective reporting channels e.g. Chief Knowledge Officer, Team Knowledge Officers and library representative attends relevant department meetings e.g. Education, Learning and Development, Research and Development, Clinical Governance, Informatics.
Date last updated: 14/07/2014
Due for review: July 2015
Group member responsible: ME
Tagged: Clinical commissioning, Innovation, Patient engagement, Quality of care, Research and development, Strategy