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Dept of Health

Answer

Mrs. Anne Campbell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many and what percentage of opportunities for research or consulting disseminated by the Department resulted in (a) research reports and (b) physical deliverables in each year since 2001-02. [207005] Miss Melanie Johnson: The dissemination policy of the Department's directly funded Policy Research Programme (PRP) is to encourage publication of research findings widely and in different fora so they can inform policy and practice at different levels and in different ways. All research projects commissioned by the PRP have at least one deliverable in the form of a final report and it is only in exceptional circumstances that a final report would not be made publicly available. The number of PRP projects completed in the three years from 2001-02, and which resulted in a final report that underwent peer review, was: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number 2001-02 128 2002-03 59 2003-04 94 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The Department also funds national research and development programmes that provide the evidence needed to underpin quality improvement and service development in the national health service. All research projects commissioned by these programmes result in a final report. Publication in peer review journals is explicitly encouraged. The largest of the NHS research and development programmes, the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme, publishes in excess of forty reports a year in the HTA Monograph series. Full details can be found at www.ncchta.org. The new and emerging applications of technology programme has separately generated the following number of new methods, procedures or prototypes. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number 2001-02 1 2002-03 4 2003-04 2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The Department has used the LINK collaborative research scheme as a means of sponsoring the pre- commercial or strategic development and assessment of new technology. The MedLINK programme, which ran from 1996 to 2001, supported projects with the potential to lead to new medical devices for prevention, diagnosis, monitoring or treatment of illness or injury. A total of 48 projects received Government support of £15 million. The number of those projects completed in the years in question and where the output included proof of principle prototypes was: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Number 2001-02 11 2002-03 9 2003-04 7 _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

207005; 431 c178-9W

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Government departments Research Department of Health

Contains statistics

Yes

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