annual rd report professor graham thornicroft. achievements and highlights 1 specialist nihr...

Annual R&D Report

Professor Graham Thornicroft

Achievements and Highlights 1

• Specialist NIHR Biomedical Research Centre • Technology Platform funding • 6 NIHR Programme Grants for Applied

Research• Growth of Service User Research Enterprise

(SURE) • A total value of £93m in research grants at

31 March 2007 with IoP

Achievements and Highlights 2

• Management of the UK Mental Health Research Network and SLaM’s hosting of the South London Hub

• Clinical Research Facility at Denmark Hill funded

by Wellcome Trust, British Heart Foundation and DH

• James Black Centre opened by the Princess Royal in January 2007 on stem cell research bringing together more than 200 scientists

Achievements and Highlights 3

• Department for Education and Skills awarded £30m to establish the National Academy of Parenting Practitioners (NAPP) to the King’s consortium led by Dr Stephen Scott of IoP/SLaM in partnership with the Family and Parenting Institute & Parenting UK

• EU grant (€ 10 million) awarded to project led by Gunter Schumann on neurobiological and genetic risk factors for mental health disorders in adolescents

Achievements and Highlights 4

• National conference for social workers

• Carers’ workshops in eating disorders units

• Big Lottery Fund awards to SLAM (£9m) and to IoP (consortium award for £18m) for regional and national anti-stigma and wellbeing projects

SLaM’s ‘Old’ Annual R&D income

2006-7 £26m 2007-8 £21m 2008-9 £ 4m

New R&D Income Streams1. Biomedical Research Centres

2. Applied Research Programmes

3. Comprehensive Clinical Research Network

4. Senior Investigators

5. Flexibility & Sustainability Fund

NIHR Biomedical Research Centre

for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley NHS

Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s

College London NIHR BRC at SLaM and IoP

BRC Budget 2007-2012

• Overall BRC allocation over 5 years

KCL component £13.5mSLaM component£11.3m

• Related resourcesCapital £3.27mTraining Integrated academic

training funding round

2. Programme Grants for Applied Research

• Round 1: 6 awards to SLaM of up to £2m each (1/4 of national award)

• Round 2: 1 Invitation to submit full application by 22 Oct

• Round 3: 4 outline submissions (8 Oct)

3 Comprehensive Clinical Research Network

• Establish and fund an excellent clinical research infrastructure to support a high quality portfolio of clinical research studies

• Provide Service Support Costs previously provided by other NHS R&D funding streams

• Provide resources for research management

Comprehensive Local Research Networks (CLRNs)

• 25 CLRNs covering the whole of England • Resources for current year to each CLRN

includes per capita allocation (£1.5m per 2m pop) to cover research infrastructure staff – CLRN Directors determine allocation process

• From April 2008, additional activity based funds (expected- based on patient accrual)

• S. London CLRN hosted by GSST

4. Senior Investigators • Support individuals making most outstanding

contribution to research essential for decision-making in health and in social care

• 19 applicants from IoP/SLaM in Competition 1

• Outcome expected March ‘08, start April ’08

• Benefits: £15k p.a, membership of the NIHR College (max 200 to be appointed in 3 years)

5. Flexibility & Sustainability Fund

• To enable the NHS to attract, develop and retain high-quality research, clinical and support staff

Amount allocated to each organisation proportional to the total amount of other NIHR income received by that NHS organisation

It will not fund running costs

Basis for allocation not yet clear