Organisations which make up the NIHR

The NIHR is a whole health research system, and there are many individual organisations, groups and collaborations that comprise the NIHR. Full details of the organisations that make up the NIHR are available online, though this summary will help you understand where the NIHR CRN fits into the NIHR and how we contribute to the NIHR's overarching aims.

NIHR's five managing centres

The NIHR's operations are delivered primarily through five managing centres. Each managing centre holds a contract with the Department of Health (DH) to deliver particular services. The centres are hosted by a range of organisations and located across England.

The NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) commissions, funds and disseminates research studies and programmes. CCF also manages the provision of some facilities and people for a thriving research environment.

CCF is hosted by LGC's Grant Management Group, part of LGC's Government services, and is based in Twickenham.

The NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) commissions, funds and disseminates research.

NETSCC is hosted by the University of Southampton.

The NIHR Academy makes training awards to researchers whose work focuses on people and patient-based applied health research. The Academy make a large range of awards available at different levels and to suit different work arrangements, types of NHS staff and career paths.

The Academy is hosted by Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This is the part of the NIHR you work in. We provide the people and equipment that enables high-quality clinical research to be undertaken throughout the NHS and other care organisations.

The information management and research management systems used by the whole of the NIHR are also managed by the CRN.

You can learn more about our structure and hosting arrangements later in this section.

The NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure (NOCRI) provides potential partners, including industry and charities, with a direct and simplified route to a wide range of experimental medicine facilities and expert NIHR investigators. NOCRI works with organisations to help them navigate this infrastructure and, where required, form partnerships and collaborations.

NOCRI is based at Minerva House in London.

an integrated research system

Many other centres, facilities, research schools and services make up the NIHR as a whole. Full details of all NIHR organisations are available online.

Together, the NIHR people, programmes, centres of excellence and systems represent the most integrated health research system in the world. From a local perspective a single NHS organisation could receive support from several parts of the NIHR in an integrated and mutually supportive way. An illustrative example is provided here.

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