Other Resources
Below, please find links to a variety of resources which may be of use when developing health services research studies. These will be updated regularly.
The Evaluation Works toolkit will help you improve services and outcomes, determine value and effectiveness, and make informed decisions. The toolkit has been developed to facilitate the creation and use of evidence in decision making for new and existing services and products and will help you build the appropriate evaluation into your services.
NIHR Push the pace is committed to improving the health and wealth of the nation through research, and is looking at how research findings can influence patient care more quickly.
NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs) are collaborations between local providers of NHS services and NHS commissioners, universities, other relevant local organisations and the relevant Academic Health Science Network.
CLAHRC BITEs (Brokering Innovation Through Evidence) are headline ‘need to know’ summaries of high quality evidence based research findings.
HSR UK is the organisational 'champion' of health services research in the United Kingdom and organise an annual conference to disseminate research.
Is my Study Research?
This HRA decision tool will help you to decide whether or not your study is research as defined by the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research.
Here are links to some of the premier health services research journals
The Q initiative connects people with improvement expertise (led by the Health Foundation and supported by NHS Improvement) .
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) have a site full of HSR resources.
The Methods Hub is a group of dedicated health services outcomes researchers who have expertise in methodology
The COMET (Core Outcome Measures in Effectiveness Trials) Initiative brings together people interested in the development and application of agreed standardised sets of outcomes, known as ‘core outcome sets’ (COS). These sets represent the minimum that should be measured and reported in all clinical trials of a specific condition, and are also suitable for use in clinical audit or research other than randomised trials.
The EQUATOR Network offer advice on Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research.
NIHR AoMRC Clinician Researcher Credentials Framework
The new NIHR-AoMRC Clinician Researcher Credentials Framework will provide a range of practical clinician researcher development programmes leading to Master’s level qualifications that are aimed at experienced healthcare practitioners from any regulated profession who are new or relatively new to clinical research.