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The DH Policy Research Programme

The Policy Research Programme (PRP) is commissioned and funded by the Department of Health (DH) to provide the evidence base for policy development on public health and social care issues. The programme provides information to policy makers and Ministers in the DH. For further information please follow this link.

The PRP budget is currently £33m per annum of which £5.5m is ring-fenced for work on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). It funds research in three main ways:

• Five year programmes of research in sixteen research units, a primary care research centre, a public health research consortium, and a surveillance unit
• Programmes of interlinked studies on key policy initiatives
• Single projects and literature reviews.

In all of these, research teams are asked to provide rapid responses to policy questions based on their ongoing research portfolios, individual expert knowledge of their specialist areas, and research projects or reviews especially devised to provide rapid results.

For further information on current open PRP calls follow this link.

Researchers funded by PRP become members of the Faculty of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

The application process for the DH Policy Research Programme is contracted to LGC, which also operates the National Institute for Health Research Central Commissioning Facility (NIHR CCF).