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Office for Stategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR)
In 2006, Sir David Cooksey published a review of the institutional arrangements for the public funding of health research in the UK, which proposed the establishment of the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) to act as a central coordinating body for health research. The UK health research budget is now ring-fenced into a single fund, and OSCHR provides strategic oversight of the budgetary division and research strategy of both the Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health Research.
OSCHR reports to the Department of Health and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills , and includes structures to allow strategic input from the devolved administrations.
The work of OSCHR on the Government’s Single Health Research Strategy is complemented by the work of the UKCRC. Maintaining a close working relationship between the UKCRC Partners and OSCHR will be key to delivering the changes needed to create a world-class health research environment in the UK.
Further information on OSCHR can be found on the following websites:
