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The Policy Research Programme (PRP)

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 £32.5 million per annum of which £5.5 million 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.

Application to the Policy Research Programme will be made through the National Institute for Health Research Central Commissioning Facility. For further information on current open calls follow this link.