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Government gives £45m for research into mental health and underfunded areas
The Department of Health today announced £45m in funding for 29 important and substantial research programmes as part of the National Institute for Health Research into areas such as mental health, medicines for children, diabetes, stroke, and dementias, neurodegenerative diseases and neurology. The programmes of research aim to increase understanding of how to manage and treat these types of diseases more effectively, develop new treatments and help prevent ill health developing in the first place.
This new government funding will improve health outcomes for patients in England with particular emphasis on conditions that cause chronic distress to patients and that are a significant issue for the NHS to manage. It will also enable NHS trusts to tackle areas of high priority for patients.
Health Minister Rosie Winterton said:
"This significant new research funding stream, which will be worth up to £75 million each year when fully established, provides a marvellous opportunity for the NHS to carry out research that will lead to improved health care or better health care delivery in the near future. The first awards focus on developing medicines specifically for children, and research into diabetes, stroke, mental health, dementias and other neurodegenerative diseases, all of which are health areas that are central to the government's key concerns."
The 29 research programmes include one that looks to increase equity of access to high quality mental health services in primary care, management of challenging behaviour in dementia at home and in care homes and improve physical health in people with severe mental illness.
Programme Grants for Applied Research are prestigious awards supporting teams of leading researchers, from the NHS and academia working together, who have already demonstrated an impressive track-record of achievement in applied health research. They will support work directed towards delivering research findings that have practical application for the benefit of patients. These looked for benefits would be through improved health care or better health care delivery, within a 3-5 year time scale.
The projects will provide stability of funding to support the long-term development of top quality applied research groups working in the NHS.
Notes to editors
1. One of the key strands of the Government's new R&D Strategy, Best Research for Best Health is the establishment of a Programme Grants for Applied Research funding stream to support applied health research addressing the priorities and needs of the NHS. More information about Best Research for Best Health can be found on the Department of Health website at: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_4127127
2. The National Institute for Health Research is the key mechanism through which the Department of Health is delivering 'Best Research for Best Health'. More information about the National Institute for Health Research is available on its website at: http://www.nihr.ac.uk
3. The aims of the National Institute for Health Research Programme Grants for Applied Research funding scheme are to:
- Provide evidence to improve health outcomes in England through promotion of health, prevention of ill health, and optimal disease management (including safety and quality), with particular emphasis on conditions causing significant disease burden, where other research funders may not be focused, or there is insufficient funding available;
- Enable NHS trusts to tackle areas of high priority or need for health;
- Provide some stability of funding to support the long-term development of top quality applied research groups working in the NHS; and
- Replace, in part, programmes of research currently supported by the Priorities and Needs (PNF) component of NHS R&D Support Funding for NHS Providers.
List of NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research Awards
Lead Researcher Programme Title P.I. Institution (P.I) Professor Stephanie Non-pharmacological King's College Hospital Amiel approaches to and King's College improving diabetes London School of outcomes Medicine Professor Thomas Coercion in mental Department of Burns health. Patterns and Psychiatry, University prevalence of coercion of Oxford in mental health care and a trial of the effectiveness and costs of Supervised Community Treatment orders Professor David National Trends and University of Manchester Challis Local Delivery in Old Age Mental Health Services: Towards an evidence-base Professor Melanie A community based University of Davies primary prevention Leicester/University programme for Type 2 Hospitals of Leicester Diabetes integrating NHS Trust identification, lifestyle intervention and community services for prevention Professor A R&D programme to University Hospital Christopher Dowrick increase equity of Aintree access to high quality mental health services in primary care Professor Gary Ford Development and Newcastle upon Tyne evaluation of Hospitals NHS Foundation hyperacute services Trust and Newcastle for patients with University acute stroke Dr Anne Forster Improving patient and Bradford Teaching carer centred outcomes Hospitals NHS Foundation in longer-term stroke Trust care. Dr Simon Griffin Reducing the burden of MRC Epidemiology Unit, type 2 diabetes: Cambridge translating epidemiology and behavioural science into preventive action Professor David A multi-centre North Bristol NHS Gunnell programme of clinical Trust/University of and epidemiological Bristol research in support of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for England. Dr Simon Heller Improving management Sheffield Teaching of Type 1 diabetes in Hospitals Foundation the UK: the DAFNE Trust programme as a research test-bed Dr Steve Iliffe Changing practice in Royal Free & UCL Medical dementia care in the School community: developing and testing evidence-based interventions, from timely diagnosis to end of life. Professor Peter Understanding Causes Addenbrooke's Hospital, Jones and Developing Cambridge Effective Interventions For Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses Dr Jonathan Mant Stroke Prevention Dept of Primary Care & Programme General Practice, University of Birmingham Professor Max Early phase treatment University of Marshall for the prevention of Manchester/Lancashire relapse in first Care NHS Trust episode schizophrenia. Dr Anthony Marson Defining priorities The Walton Centre for and communicating Neurology and evidence about benefit Neurosurgery. Liverpool and harm of interventions for people with epilepsy: Putting evidence into practice Professor Esme Management of Humber Mental Health Moniz-Cook Challenging Behaviour Teaching NHS in dementia at home Trust/University of Hull and in care homes Professor Anthony Psychological Psychology Services, Morrison approaches to Bolton, Salford & understanding and Trafford Mental Health promoting recovery NHS Trust from psychosis Professor Declan Crossing the divide. Institute of Psychiatry Murphy Effective treatments for people with neurodevelopmental disorders across the lifespan and intellectual ability Professor Robin Improving Physical Institute of Psychiatry Murray Health and Decreasing Cannabis Abuse in People With Severe Mental Illness Professor Martin Support at Home - University College Orrell Interventions to London Enhance Life in Dementia (SHIELD) Professor Peter Improving Stroke Oxford Radcliffe Rothwell Prevention in Routine Hospitals NHS Trust Clinical Practice: Phase 2 of the Oxford Vascular Study (OXVASC) Programme Dr Mike Sampson Delivering the Norfolk & Norwich Diabetes Prevention University Hospital NHS Programme in a UK Trust community setting Dr. Ulrike Schmidt Treatment of Anorexia Institute of Psychiatry nervosa: Translating experimental neuroscience into clinical practice. Professor Swaran Ethnicity, Detention University of Warwick Singh and Early Intervention: Reducing Inequalities and Improving outcomes for Black and Ethnic Minority (BME) Patients Professor Rosalind Adverse Drug Reactions University of Liverpool Smyth in Children and Neonates Professor Graham Improving Mental South London & Maudsley Thornicroft Health Outcomes by NHS Trust / Institute of Reducing Stigma and Psychiatry, King's Discrimination College London Professor Andre A programme of Institute of Psychiatry Tylee research to develop and South London and and test stepped care Maudsley Trust for patients with depression and physical illness in primary care Professor Caroline Ensuring Immediate University of Central Watkins Access to Emergency Lancashire Stroke Pathways Professor Til Wykes Patient involvement in Institute of Psychiatry improving the evidence and South London and base Maudsley Trust
A number of these awards are dependent upon amendments being made by the applicants and all are conditional upon the successful completion of contractual negotiations.
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