BMJ  2007;334:556-557 (17 March), doi:10.1136/bmj.39154.497674.4E

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MPs broadly welcome proposals for health research in UK

Zosia Kmietowicz

London

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A review by MPs of proposals on how £1bn ({euro}1.5bn; $1.9bn) worth of publicly funded health research should be allocated in the United Kingdom has raised concerns about introducing targets to set research priorities.

The cross party Science and Technology Committee has broadly welcomed the conclusions reached by Sir David Cooksey in his review published in December (BMJ 2006;333:1239, 16 Dec, doi: 10.1136/bmj.39059.559213.DB) on how healthcare research can be improved to bring more tangible benefits to patients.

The committee says it has reservations about some aspects of the proposals, however, and will be taking "a close interest in reviewing progress and how the new institutional arrangements will work in practice."

In his review, which was commissioned by Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir David proposed creating two new bodies to deliver a research strategy that brings together the two separate funding streams for public health . . . [Full text of this article]


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