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Programme Director - RfPB
“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 6 (Pilot studies)
Thinking about applying for funding for a pilot study? RfPB welcomes requests for funding pilot work and has prepared this guidance on what is meant by a pilot study; the criteria by which a pilot should be judged; and how pilot studies fit with the strong emphasis in the Programme on demonstrating patient benefit. For further information please follow the link below
RfPB Director’s Message 6, March 2009
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Prioritising Patients
A review of RfPB competitions 1-3 by the Programme Director. This 12-page summary is based on a report for RfPB Regional Funding Committees. Contents include applications and success rates and an overview of the emerging project portfolio.
Prioritising Patients, November 2008
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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 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 Programme Director 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
Celia Davies is currently Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and is also Professor Emerita of Health Care at The Open University. She is a sociologist whose career has involved much contract research for funding bodies including the Department of Health and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as well as for voluntary organisations. She is particularly known for her studies of the nursing profession, her writings on health policy and on the regulation of the health professions. She has also published academic work and carried out consultancy patient and public engagement. Her most recent book (with M. Wetherell and E. Barnett) is Citizens at the Centre: deliberative participation in health care decisions (Policy Press 2006). She was granted an honorary degree from City University in 2007 and awarded a DLitt from the University of Warwick in 2008.
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