Projects in progress
Your project has been funded because it addresses an important question that the NHS needs the answer to, so it is important to us that your research progresses as quickly and smoothly as possible. The HTA programme can help you with this by providing appropriate support and advice. By closely monitoring project performance and providing support where it is needed the HTA programme helps to ensure that research projects are both successful and timely.
We keep in touch with research teams in a number of ways:
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project initiation meetings
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contact advice
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regular and ad hoc progress reports
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teleconferences and on-site visits
The support that we offer to researchers is reinforced by input from a 'virtual' college of experts who provide advice and guidance drawing upon different areas of relevant knowledge.
National Research Register
The National Research Register operated from 1997 to 2007 providing information on research taking place in NHS organisations. However, the recent restructuring of research within the NHS in England through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the introduction of the United Kingdom Clinical Research Network (UKCRN) means that a new system for registering research has been established and is now operational.
The National Research Register has been archived as a public resource and to support historical analysis. The archive is now available via the National Institute for Health Research Portal. It will be possible to make amendments to this data for legal or accuracy reasons but no new records will be added to this archive.
Further information about the NRR archive is available from the NIHR Portal
New arrangements for registering research
The introduction of clinical research networks has shifted the responsibility for registering eligible research from NHS organisations to the researcher and the topic network. NHS organisations are no longer required to supply this information.
Further details on how the Clinical Research Networks are collecting data can be found on the UKCRN website www.ukcrn.org.uk. The method of collecting this information is specific to each network but the total collection forms the UKCRN Portfolio Database.
Read about the launch of the UKCRN Portfolio Database
http://www.ukcrn.org.uk/index/news/newsItems/news00093.html.
Project outputs
It is important that you give us advance notice of all published work related to your project, throughout the course of the research. Find out more
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