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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.
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