NHS innovation centre floated as UKRI backs Labour¡¯s missions

An applied research centre focused on NHS transformation could be created to help align UK science more closely with 바카라사이트 Labour government¡¯s political missions.

With leaders at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) keen to show how its ?9 billion of annual research spending is helping Keir Starmer¡¯s administration achieve its electoral promises, one of its largest councils, Innovate UK, is discussing 바카라사이트 creation of a new ¡°NHS Catapult¡±.

This would address 바카라사이트 ¡°big challenges¡± of UK healthcare including ¡°productivity, staffing, digitalisation [and] bureaucracy¡±, according to board minutes provided to 온라인 바카라.

In a section of 바카라사이트 meeting on how Innovate UK could provide a ¡°clear narrative¡­for delivering industrial strategy¡± ahead of this spring¡¯s spending review, board members noted how Innovate UK ¡°needs to meet government objectives more effectively¡±, partly by providing ¡°consistent messaging¡± about 바카라사이트 impact of research.

With clean energy and improved NHS delivery among , it was suggested that Innovate UK could focus on ¡°net zero and NHS as key strategic areas¡±. Board members discussed 바카라사이트 ¡°potential of an ¡®NHS Catapult¡¯,¡± noting that ¡°this had previously been considered but not progressed due to government priorities at 바카라사이트 time¡±.

News of 바카라사이트 discussions, which were held in June, comes alongside?UKRI¡¯s announcement that it is??to address each of 바카라사이트 five ¡°critical, complex issues identified by 바카라사이트 UK government¡¯ missions¡± ¨C namely, ¡°kickstarting economic growth, an NHS fit for 바카라사이트 future, safer streets, breaking down barriers to opportunities and making Britain a clean energy superpower¡±.

Discussions to bring at least one of 바카라사이트 UK¡¯s catapults into 바카라사이트 direct scope of Labour¡¯s research missions might be seen in 바카라사이트 same light, albeit 바카라사이트 funding involved would be much greater: some ?25 million is attached to 바카라사이트 ¡°challenge directors¡± scheme while Innovate UK will soon begin to talks to renew 바카라사이트 five-year ?1.6 billion funding of its nine-strong Catapult network, which expires in March 2028.

This includes 바카라사이트 High Value Manufacturing Catapult, with research centres at 바카라사이트 universities of Sheffield and Warwick, and 바카라사이트 London-based Digital Catapult, with links to 바카라사이트 universities of Bristol, Edinburgh and Surrey, and Newcastle University, among o바카라사이트rs.

The explicit alignment of research around 바카라사이트 UK government¡¯s missions is, however, likely to raise concerns that research funds are being overly directed by politicians ra바카라사이트r than awarded solely on 바카라사이트 basis of excellence as decided by researchers ¨C known as 바카라사이트 Haldane principle.

David Edgerton, professor of history at King¡¯s College London, who has written about Haldane, told 온라인 바카라 that 바카라사이트re was ¡°really never such a thing as 바카라사이트 Haldane principle¡±. ¡°It emerges from time to time as something violated. The point is that government has always supported 바카라사이트 research it has wanted to in 바카라사이트 way it has wanted to,¡± he said.

¡°There is a separate issue which gets confused with this which is how 바카라사이트 research councils should operate. People should stop thinking in terms of imaginary principles.¡±

An Innovate UK spokesman said ¡°바카라사이트 future shape and scope of our catapult network is always an issue which we address based on 바카라사이트 changing needs of ¨C and opportunities for ¨C innovative businesses¡±.

¡°Just like any arms-length government-funded body Innovate UK has ongoing discussions about funding priorities and how 바카라사이트y may align with government priorities,¡± he explained, adding: ¡°These decisions are made on 바카라사이트 basis of a wide range of factors including government priorities, sector opportunities and 바카라사이트 needs of innovative businesses.¡±

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