公共卫生部长Dawn Primarolo今日宣布了一项价值几百万英镑的新研究项目。这一项目旨在通过计划与提供医疗服务的更好方式来提高服务质量。

新的医疗服务研究（HSR）项目将为更多的英国医疗服务研究提供融资。这些研究的范围将超出国家医疗研究所（NIHR）项目所覆盖的范围，其中包括医疗技术评估项目（HTA）、服务提供与组织项目（SDO）、效率与机制评估项目（EME）、已申请研究项目拨款与患者利益研究（RfPB）项目。

这些项目在医疗服务研究领域都是专家子集，这意味着一些项目可能很难融资，因为它们不在所创建的NIHR融资主流之内或医疗研究委员会及卫生部所覆盖的范围之内。

HSR项目将主要通过研究者领导的工作流来为研究融资，拨款可以据此提供给研究者所直接提出的主题的初级与证据两者综合。该项目还可能对特别主题研究建议的呼吁进行大力宣传。利益表达的首次呼吁将于2009年1月进行。

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UK Government Action to Fund Gaps in Health Research

Tuesday, 14 October 2008

A new ? million research programme which is intended to lead to an increase in service quality and patient safety through better ways of planning and providing health services was announced today by Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo.

The new Health Services Research (HSR) programme will provide funding across the UK for a broader range of health services research than is already covered by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) programmes. These include the Health Technology Assessment programme (HTA), the Service Delivery & Organisation programme (SDO), the Efficacy & Mechanism Evaluation programme (EME), Programme Grants for Applied Research and the Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme.

These programmes are all specialist sub-sets in the field of health services research, which means that some projects may be difficult to fund because they fall outside of established NIHR funding streams, as well as those covered by the Medical Research Council and the Department of Health.

The HSR programme will fund research mainly through a researcher-led workstream, whereby grants are provided for both primary and evidence synthesis on topics proposed directly by researchers, on an ongoing basis. The programme may also advertise calls for research proposals on specific topics. The first call for expressions of interest will be taking place in January 2009.