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Welcome to the National Institute for Health Research
Central Commissioning Facility
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NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme
1st Call for i4i Future Product Development Funding Stream 1 (FPD1)
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The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) would like to invite FPD1 project proposals of up to £100k for a maximum duration of 12 months under its i4i Programme to investigate whether a piece of prior basic research or an existing technology can be used to meet a healthcare need. There should be the potential for a device, based on the technology or technologies, to be developed through further applied R&D.
The call opened on 30 July 2008. FPD1 proposals must be submitted electronically no later than 5pm on Friday 19 September 2008. The deadline for receiving Declarations and Signature page is 5pm on 26 September 2008.
Guidance Documents: i4i FPD1 Funding Stream 1
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i4i launches to healthcare product innovators
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The NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme has been launched to accelerate the translation of healthcare ideas into new and innovative products for the NHS.
Building on the previous established NEAT (New and Emerging Applications of Technology) and HTD (Health Technology Devices) programmes, i4i will fund future product development through three funding streams for investigators. It is also the umbrella for NIHR investment in the pilot Healthcare Technology Co-operatives as well as other partnerships through the i4i Challenge Fund for Innovation.
Professor Lord Darzi, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Health, welcomed i4i as a timely contribution to innovation research supporting the NHS. He said: "Initiatives such as i4i will help us to achieve the best care for a 21st century health service.
Addressing innovators involved in ideas generation, applied R&D, manufacturing and marketing of healthcare products, Professor Sally Davies, Director General of Research and Development, Department of Health, said: "i4i is an important part of the NIHR portfolio and will speed up the innovation process, ensuring that good ideas become products for the NHS more quickly for the benefit of patients and their carers".
Read the i4i launch programme
More information about the i4i programme
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Health research information for NHS patients
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The Government has announced that it will ensure that all patients throughout the NHS will be informed of research that is relevant to them so that, if appropriate, they can be offered the opportunity to take part in it. For more information please follow this link
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New Director appointment
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Dr David King has joined the NIHR Central Commissioning Facility as Director.
Dr King joins NIHR-CCF from the Department of Health where he has been Trust R&D Manager.
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In Best Research for Best Health: A new national health research strategy 2006, the Department of Health established the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to oversee the direction for publicly funded health research in England. Making sure that research funding is focused where it is needed, provides value for money and quality outputs through a totally transparent and accountable system is a top priority.
Under the NIHR, funding for existing programmes is being expanded and new funding streams are being introduced. All the processes for research funding applications and the commissioning of research are being standardised. Programmes are being co-ordinated and managed by an associated Central Commissioning Facility (CCF).
The Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) was set up in 2006 to manage and administer the NHS National Research and Development Programme, which investigates a range of healthcare matters and assists in how research-based knowledge is applied across all healthcare sectors.
Information on the individual programmes, including details of current calls for research proposals, can be obtained from the Programmes link in the left hand menu. Further information can be obtained from the CCF. Please click here for details of how to contact the CCF.
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