University of Cambridge Announces New Improvement Research Institute

The University of Cambridge has been chosen to establish and run a new improvement research institute, the first of its kind in Europe. The Health Foundation will fund the institute in the region of £40m over 10 years to support its set-up and development, with the aim that it will ultimately become self-sustaining.

Led by Mary Dixon-Woods, RAND Professor of Health Services Research and Wellcome Trust Investigator at the University of Cambridge, the institute will work closely with RAND Europe and Homerton College, Cambridge, and a wide range of other partners in the health service, university and charity sectors across the UK seeking to strengthen the evidence-base for how to improve patient care, the institute will produce practical, high quality learning and will build research skills in the NHS, academia and beyond. Together with their partners, the institute will work with the wider research and improvement communities, NHS staff, patients and carers, to identify, design and test improvements. Critically, their work will include understanding not only which interventions work, but in which contexts and why. The institute will also fund a world-class fellowship program to build skills in improvement research across the UK, creating a new, highly skilled generation of researchers.

To learn more, visit: http://www.health.org.uk/creating-new-improvement-research-institute-0?dm_i=4Y2,4UFJP,30VXCE,IAY9W,1