Key Reports

Reports

Research for all? An analysis of clinical participation in research

NIHR Survey Report: Improving the experience of engaging your NHS care organisation(s) in research: A brief survey for research delivery and management staff, February 2020

ABPI Report: Clinical trials - How the UK can transform the clinical research environment

Transforming health through innovation: Integrating the NHS and academia

Blogs

Embedding Research in NHS Care: A reflection. - Roger Steel (Originally written for internal CRN use)

Evidence sources for the link between research and better patient outcomes

Benefits to care giving

• Downing A, Morris E JA, Corrigan N, et al. High hospital research participation and improved colorectal cancer survival outcomes: a population-based study. Gut 2017;66:89-96.

• Ozdemir BA, et al. (2015). Research Activity and the Association with Mortality. PLoS One 10, e0118253

• Jonker L & Fisher SJ (2018). The correlation between National Health Service trusts’ clinical trial activity and both mortality rates and care quality commission ratings: a retrospective cross-sectional study. Public Health 187,1-6. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033350618300015 

• Boaz A, et al. (2015). Does the engagement of clinicians and organisations in research improve healthcare performance: a three-stage review. BMJ Open 5, e009415. 

• McManus RJ, et al. (2008). How representative of primary care are research active practices? Cross-sectional survey. Family Practice 25, 56–62.

• NHS patients to receive life-saving COVID-19 treatments that could cut hospital time by 10 days

• Covid-19: NHS hospitals are urged to recruit more patients to Recovery trial to find what treatments work

Benefits to the workforce

• Lambert TW, Smith F, Goldacre MJ. Making clinical academic careers more attractive: views from questionnaire surveys of senior UK doctors. JRSM Open. 6(8): 2054270415602644, 2015.

• Dale J, Potter R, Owen K, Parsons N, Realpe A, Leach J. Retaining the general practitioner workforce in England: what matters to GPs? A cross-sectional study. BMC Family Prcatice. 16:140, 2015

• Watson C, King A, Mitra S, Shaaban AF, Goldstein AM, Morowitz MJ, Warner BW, Crombleholme TM, Keswani SG. What does it take to be a successful pediatric surgeon-scientist? Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 50(6): 1049-52, 2015.

• Community Research (2018). Adapting, Coping, Compromising research. https://www.gmc-uk.org/-/media/documents/adapting-coping-compromising-research-report-79702793.pdf 

• Shanafelt TD, et al. (2009). Career Fit and Burnout Among Academic Faculty. Archives of Internal Medicine 169(10), 990–995. 

• Royal College of Physicians. Research for All: Building a research-active medical workforce, 2016.

• Rees MR, Bracewell M On behalf of Medical Academic Staff Committee of the British Medical Association Academic factors in medical recruitment: evidence to support improvements in medical recruitment and retention by improving the academic content in medical posts Postgraduate Medical Journal 2019;95:323-327.

• Royal College of Physicians. Research for all? An analysis of clinical participation in research, 2020.

• UKCRC Subcommittee for Nurses in Clinical Research (Workforce) (2007). Developing the best research professionals Qualified graduate nurses: recommendations for preparing and supporting clinical academic nurses of the future.

• Bower P, et al ‘The Evidence Base for the Impact of Research Activity on Quality of Care: What We Know, What We Need to Know’ NIHR CRN 2020

• NIHR Research Participant Experience Survey Report 2018-19

Other benefits

• NIHR's Response to COVID-19

• Emerging Lessons From COVID-19 for the US Clinical Research Enterprise

Other useful links which reference research in healthcare

• ABPI Clinical Trials Report 2020

• The Guardian: The NHS rose to the challenge of Covid, but its next test may be even harder, Bruce Keogh

• CRUK: Identifying and improving the capacity of the healthcare staff to conduct research, February 2021

• Involving the NHS in Research

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