Culyer, research governance, and all that

Culyer, research governance, and all that.

n 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 withi...

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Ensuring that research governance supports rather than stifles research.

the ones I most often use, but when I’m conscious of a consultation going wrong, the problem usually lies deeper. You only have to ask: ‘Do I give patients who irritate me a worse deal?’ to appreciate the importance of attitudes in human communication. But do attitudes determine skills, or can attitudes be forged by attention to skills? It’s an ancient debate, neatly articulated by Skelton. Inn...

Funding research in primary care: is Culyer the remedy?

I in research and development (R&D) should be informed by the white paper Primary care: delivering the future, which identified the need to address three areas: funding arrangements, infrastructure, and ensuring that research findings are relevant and taken up by professionals in their everyday work.1 It also emphasized that an evidence-based health service requires some understanding of R&D on...

Academic nepotism – all that glitters is not gold

Dear Editor With increasing emphasis on publications forfaculty recruitment, career advancementand obtaining research grants, the issues relatedto author kinship and academic nepotism havegrown significantly and these probably reflectthe inflationary growth rather than the optimalgrowth warranted due to increasing researchcomplexity. Allesina S (1) measured the fullmagnitude of nepotism in the ...