Aims and objectives

The aims of the NIHR Clinical Research Network are to:

• Improve patient care and speed up access to the best treatment and care for people in all parts of the country
  
• Improve the coordination of research to provide an effective and efficient mechanism for conducting research in priority areas
  
• Improve the speed of research to increase the numbers of patients in research and the rate at which they are recruited
  
• Maintain and enhance the quality of research to provide the processes necessary for the development of high quality research protocols and the infrastructure to carry them out
  
• Improve the integration of research and to develop the link between research and treatment by speeding up the translation of research from the laboratory to the clinic
  
• Widen involvement in research and increase the number of NHS organisations, health care professionals and patients actively involved in research studies
  
• Strengthen links with industry to speed up, simplify and improve the quality of NHS structures to make the NHS one of the most attractive locations in the world for clinical trials and thus improve national health and increase national wealth.

Last updated: 11 May 2009