Web review of the Topic Specific Research Networks

The James Lind Alliance (JLA) is developing, piloting, and describing methods for shared priority setting in research that addresses treatment uncertainties. We are keen to examine other groups who adopt formal priority setting in research funding and commissioning, both in terms of what we can learn, but also to identify how priorities that emerge from JLA Priority Setting Partnerships can be integrated into research funding models.

Whilst the UK Clinical Research Network is not a funder of clinical research, it does influence and support the nature and scope of clinical research in the UK. Clinical Studies Groups “provide the primary route through which new clinical research ideas are developed”. The JLA was interested in how the Topic Specific Research Networks developed their research ideas and set their priorities for their respective clinical research programmes, and whether/how patients and the public are involved in this work.

A web review of the Topic Specific Research Networks was undertaken in parallel with other larger scoping projects, with a view to comparing and contrasting the findings.

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