Frequently used links
Cochrane Collaboration
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit organisation. Its aim is to make up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare readily available.
Department of Health
The Department of Health works to improve the quality and convenience of care provided by the NHS and social services.
The Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme
The NIHR-led EME programme aims to support excellent clinical science with an ultimate view to improving health or patient care. Its remit includes clinical trials and evaluative studies which add significantly to our understanding of biological or behavioural mechanisms and processes, explore new scientific or clinical principles, evaluate clinical efficacy of interventions where proof of concept in humans has already been achieved and the development or testing of new methodologies.
INVOLVE
INVOLVE aims to ensure that public involvement in research and development in the NHS, public health and social care improves the way that decisions are made about what should be a research priority; the way that research is commissioned; the way that research is carried out; and the way that research findings are communicated.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
Working with clinical bodies, NICE systematically appraises health interventions before they are introduced in the NHS. It offers clinicians clear guidelines on which treatments work best for patients, and which do not.
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
The NIHR provides a key mechanism through which the Department of Health will deliver its national health research strategy, 'Best Research for Best Health,' launched in January 2006.
National Library for Health (NLH)
The National Library for Health provides users with easy access to the best current knowledge on improving health and health care, clinical practice and patient choice.
National Research Register
The National Research Register (NRR) is a register of ongoing and recently completed research funded by, or of interest to, the NHS.
UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC)
The UKCRC brings together the major stakeholders that influence clinical research in the UK and particularly in the NHS.
UK Clinical Research Network (UKCRN)
The UKCRN forms one of the key components of the UKCRC. It was developed to support clinical research and to facilitate the conduct of randomised prospective trials of interventions and other studies.
UK National Screening Committee (NSC)
The NSC advises government health ministers on all aspects of screening. In forming its proposals, the NSC draws on the latest research evidence and the skills of specially convened multi-disciplinary expert groups, which always include patient and service user representatives.
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