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What is a Themed Call?. Increases the volume of high-quality research in line with national health priorities Provides new evidence on a theme from several points of view Promotes capacity building in key research areas Facilitates close collaboration between CCF, NETSCC and TCC.
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What is a Themed Call? • Increases the volume of high-quality research in line with national health priorities • Provides new evidence on a theme from several points of view • Promotes capacity building in key research areas • Facilitates close collaboration between CCF, NETSCC and TCC
What is a Themed Call? • Offers a unique opportunity to work across NIHR with delivery and management of calls supported by colleagues at: • INVOLVE • Research Design Service • NIHR Comprehensive Clinical Research Networks (CRNs) • Builds successful partnerships with external stakeholders, particularly other funders such as the MRC and national charities.
What have we achieved? • Successfully launched five cross-NIHR themed calls to date; dementia (2011), surgery (2012), very rare diseases (2012) primary care (2013), AMR (2013) • Coordinating centres working seamlessly to deliver and manage the calls on behalf of NIHR • c.a£23 million committed to dementia research with success acknowledged in the Prime Minister’s Challenge on Dementia
What have we achieved? • c.a £23 million committed to surgery research • Delivered high profile researcher events and a writing workshop • Recognition from all quarters • Many new partnerships
Future themed calls • Themed calls as pump-primers • Annual call on national priority decided by CMO • Political sensitivity • Potential for “mini themed calls” stimulated by programmes • Increasing partnerships
Long-term conditions in CYP • “Our Children Deserve Better – Prevention Pays” (CMO, 2012) • Rec 22: “The National Institute for Health Research should develop a research call to provide the evidence base to improve health outcomes for long-term conditions in childhood, to match the best worldwide” • Provide new evidence on ways to reduce the high mortality, morbidity and inequalities in children and young people. • Opportunities to evaluate a wide range of interventions which will provide important evidence to help guide future policy and practice in both healthcare and non-healthcare settings.
Long-term conditions in CYP • CYP = up to 25 years • All NIHR programmes plus TCC • Opens 5 Feb • Closes 21 May • Decisions Feb 2015
Long-term conditions in CYP • Researcher event 5 Feb • Dedicated website: http://www.themedcalls.nihr.ac.uk/ • Webinars etc • Writing workshop 7 March