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RfPB: Programme Director
“Health care practitioners are in daily touch with patients and their needs. Both groups deserve a role in shaping the research agenda and creating the evidence base that will improve patients’ lives. This new NIHR programme is about exactly this, and I am delighted to be associated with it.”
Professor Celia Davies, Director, NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme
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Director's Message 5 (Randomised Controlled trials)
Director's Message 5 considers the submission of Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) and addresses five questions in considering such applications: Is now the right time for a full-scale trial? Does this team have a real chance of success with an RCT? How well-defined is the intervention and the outcome? Have common pitfalls concerning data collection and data analysis been addressed? Are the arrangements for trial governance satisfactory? For further information please follow the link below.
RfPB Director's Message 5, March 2008 
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Director's Message 4 (Patient and Public Involvement)
Director's Message 4 was produced in conjunction with the Patient
and Public Involvement members of one of our committees as a result of their experiences.
They have identified some of the common issues and misunderstanding relevant to PPI. For
further information please follow the link below.
RfPB Director's Message 4, September 2007
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Director's Message 3 (Range of funded projects)
The Director has provided comments about the range
of projects funded during the first competition of the Research for
Patient Benefit programme. For further information please follow the link below.
RfPB Director's Message 3, May 2007
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Director's Message 1
From the experience of the first competition, the Director of the
programme has provided additional feedback on process and the most frequently
cited reasons that applications were rejected. For further information please
follow the link below.
RfPB Director's Message, Dec 2006
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Meet the Director of the Research for Patient Benefit Programme
 Professor Celia Davies was until recently Professor of Health Care with
The Open University. She is now a visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.
She is a sociologist whose career has included much contract research
for funding bodies including DH, the ESRC and voluntary organisations. She is
particularly known for her studies of the nursing profession and her writings on health
policy and is interested in research with direct applications to practice.
Recently she has been working with the National Co-coordinating Centre for Service
Delivery and Organization (NCCSDO) both as an investigator and as a member of
commissioning teams. Her last research project was an evaluation of the Citizens' Council of
NICE. 'Citizens at the Centre: deliberative participation in healthcare decisions'
(with M. Wetherell and E. Barnett) and was published by Policy Press in 2006. It was funded
by the Methodology Research Programme.
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