© 2002 Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
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Research and development
Culyer, research governance, and all that
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Correspondence to:
Professor J Feehally, Department of Nephrology, Leicester General Hospital, Gwendolen Road, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK;
jf27@le.ac.uk
Observations on life as an NHS R&D director
Keywords: research and development; Culyer report
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In the early 1990s, an expert group chaired by Professor Anthony Culyer, was commissioned by the government to report on the state of research and development (R&D) within the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, and to make recommendations which would secure and strengthen its future. His report, published in 1994, drew important conclusions which have had a far reaching effect on R&D within the NHS. The financial resources associated with R&D entered the NHS vernacular with his name attached, so called "Culyer money", and the consequence of his recommendations has been the construction of an entirely new NHS organisational element both centrally in the Department of Health and in NHS trusts and other local NHS organisations. R&D directors and managers are now a necessary part of the life of every NHS trust, large and small, and a new brigade of civil servants in the Department
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