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Next steps for healthcare research: funding, innovation, and informing public policy
Venue: Central London
Date: 08:30-13:00, Thursday, 21st May 2015
This conference, organised by the Westminster Health Forum, will be an opportunity to assess latest thinking and developments in healthcare research - in the UK, and more widely.
Delegates will assess key issues surrounding the funding and commissioning of research.
They will also consider how the development of policy can be informed by developments in health technology and related academic research, as well as opportunities for the third sector in driving innovation following the launch of the Drug Discovery Alliance by Alzheimer’s Research UK.
The conference takes place following the launch of the Government’s Science and Innovation Strategy, and in the context of the Innovative Medicines Review, which will look at what more can be done to promote the adoption of medical innovations into clinical practice.
Overall, areas for discussion include:
- New models of funding healthcare research;
- The role of Academic Health Science Networks in collaboration and fostering partnerships across healthcare;
- The potential for Biomedical Research Centres in accelerating translational research;
- Development of the Medical Research Council’s ‘virtual library’of deprioritised pharmaceutical compounds;
- Case studies in genomic medicine research and stratified medicine;
- The adoption of new technologies in health research; and
- Next steps for regulation and the medicine approval process.
The agenda has been structured following consultation with officials at the Medical Research Council. The draft agenda is available to download here. The seminar is organised on the basis of strict impartiality by the Westminster Health Forum.
For more information and to book your place click here.