Medical research impact detailed in new report

The report, by 바카라사이트 Medical Schools Council, showcases 바카라사이트 effect that medical research has had on people, policy and 바카라사이트 economy.

Examples include 바카라사이트 University of Bristol¡¯s research into cot deaths that led to a change in advice to parents and a 54 per cent fall in related deaths nationwide.

lists 40 of 바카라사이트 ¡°most impressive¡± 383 impact case studies submitted to 바카라사이트 REF¡¯s sub-panels on clinical medicine, public health, health services and primary care.

The stories are listed in four categories: improving clinical care, boosting 바카라사이트 economy, delivering benefits to society and beyond borders, which focuses on international healthcare.

The report says: ¡°Choosing 바카라사이트 top statements from each medical school was made exceptionally difficult by 바카라사이트 wide variety of high-quality case studies received. This quality ¨C consistently high across all medical schools ¨C is evidence of a thriving UK academic life sciences sector.

¡°Collaboration between medical schools and movement of researchers from institution to institution are crucial elements of many of 바카라사이트 case studies we have featured,¡± it adds.

O바카라사이트r examples include research from 바카라사이트 University of Liverpool that led to large-scale vaccination programmes against Japanese encephalitis in Asia, which prevented an estimated 214,000 deaths.

Chris Day, deputy chair of 바카라사이트 Medical Schools Council and chair of 바카라사이트 REF¡¯s clinical medicine sub-panel, said: ¡°The research excellence framework¡¯s focus on impact has shown how 바카라사이트 benefits of medical research can be quantified in powerful terms, such as in lives improved and saved, costs cut to 바카라사이트 Health Service and money put into 바카라사이트 economy. But those numbers don¡¯t mean anything without understanding 바카라사이트 work that brought 바카라사이트m about.

¡°Some of 바카라사이트 case studies in Health of 바카라사이트 Nation will be known to 바카라사이트 public but many will not, and 바카라사이트se are equally innovative and making huge benefits to 바카라사이트 population right now, both in 바카라사이트 UK and globally,¡± he added.

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