Quick fixes for research assessment exercise will not work

doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7256.302

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Selwyn St Leger (Selwyn.St.Leger@man.ac.uk), consultant in public health medicine

University of Manchester, School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, Manchester M13 9PT

EDITOR—Tomlinson challenges those who seek to abandon the research assessment exercise to propose a credible alternative for the accountable allocation of public money.1 Goldbeck-Wood quotes a patients' spokesman, Clive Wilkinson, as saying, “The public understands that research is essential; but it needs to be on their terms—not on the basis of what is comfortable to academics.”2

The research assessment …