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 Key strategies and health data

To support grant writing, we have collated some of the key strategies that can be used to help provide evidence of the need for your research and development project

UKRI and NIHR priorities and strategies      

EPSRC
 

 

MRC

MRC research strategy 2016-2020

https://mrc.ukri.org/research/strategy/

Overview of themes: 

  • Prevention and early detection
  • Precision medicine
  • Multimorbidities
  • Advanced therapies
  • Mental health
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Global health

Cross council vision for food, nutrition and health research

BBSRC, ESRC and MRC joint vision

 
UKRI

UKRI Technology Touching Life

UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund

UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund

UKRI Antimicrobial Resistance

UKRI Strength in Places Fund

Healthy Ageing UKRI Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

 
NIHR

NIHR research priorities

"These themed call topics remain ongoing research priorities for all NIHR programmes"

  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Dementia
  • Medicinal cannabis
  • Obesity
  • Primary care
  • Mental health
  • Chronic pain
  • Complex health and care needs in older people
  • Frailty
  • Long term conditions in children
  • Multimorbidities in older people
  • Brain tumours
  • Injuries, accidents and urgent and emergency care
 

 

UK Government and health agency priorities

Accelerated access review

Recommendations to speed up access to innovative healthcare and technologies, to improve efficiency and outcomes for NHS patients

Final report -2016

Government response - 2017

 

Industrial Strategy

Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund

An overview of the government's challenge to develop and manufacture new medicines and digital health products and technologies.

Industrial Strategy Grand Challenges - update September 2019

  • Artificial intelligence and data
  • Ageing society
  • Clean growth
  • Future of mobility
 

NHS England and devolved health agencies

NHS England Long Term Plan - Published January 2019

NHS England Mental Health Implementation Plan 2019/20

Public Health Scotland - A Fairer Healthier Scotland 2017-2022

Public Health Wales - Priorities 

Public Health Agency - Northern Ireland

 
Skills strategy

Topol Review: Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future - February 2019 - NHS Health Education England

Science Industry Partnership Skills strategy 2030 for the life sciences sector

 
Other strategies

NHS and Social Care: Targets, Priorities and Pressures - House of Lords debate, February 2020

 
 

Regional strategies and priorities

Midlands Engine strategy 2017

Midlands Innovation Health

Nottingham City joint health and wellbeing strategy 2016-2020

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 5-year strategy 2016-21

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust - Strategy 2018-2028

 

Facts and Figures

Office for National Statistics - health and social care statistics

Office for Life Sciences Strength and Opportunity database and analysis

The landscape of the medical technology and biopharmaceutical sectors in the UK - last updated October 2018

Health and Safety Executive - Health and safety statistics 2018/29

World Health Organisation data