Each year, the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) provides funding for selected research grants, allocating grant funds across several small to medium size projects.
The purpose of the Research Grant Scheme is to undertake and source relevant, high quality research that aligns with the ACI mandate, functions, strategic plan and research priorities.
Read more →This report launch webinar will present new evidence and insights on how doctors have responded to the pandemic and in what ways our frontline medical workforce has been supported, from the Medicine in Australia: Balancing Employment and Life (MABEL) COVID-19 Short Online Survey.
Read more →A special themed issue of Public Health Research & Practice on the public health lessons we are learning from the COVID pandemic, is now available.
Read more →The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety is inviting submissions from interested individuals and organisations on the topic of system governance, market management and the allocation and clarification of roles and responsibilities for these functions.
Read more →On 1 July 2020 our president Professor Rachael Morton, Director of Health Economics and Robinson Fellow at the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre University of Sydney presented a webinar for the Australian Centre for Value-Based Health Care on recommendations developed by HSRAANZ to guide the implementation of PROMs to guide clinical care following our November 2018 Seminar on “The Pros and Cons of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS) and patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMS).
Read more →The 10th annual call for research projects will deliver funding to the research community from 1 January 2021 on the following topics 1. Emerging Health Care Solutions and Alternative Models that Engage and Support Health Care Users and 2. Management of Joint Pain
Read more →In this webinar Professor Andrew Georgiou, from the Australian Institute of Health Innovation (AIHI), Macquarie University presents on a study undertaken by the Diagnostic Informatics team at AIHI in collaboration with Outcome Health’s POLAR Aurora Research Consortia including Gippsland, Eastern Melbourne and South Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Networks (PHNs). The study was funded by the Australian Department of Health Quality Use of Pathology Program with the aim of providing benchmark data on how specific pathology tests are used in general practice and to investigate how test management practices align with evidence-based guidelines. The study provided findings about the use of key laboratory tests including glycated haemoglobin A1c, kidney function tests, ferritin tests for iron deficiency, vitamin D tests and prostate-specific antigen tests.
Read more →In her latest interview, Professor Moreton discusses with Professor Kathy Eagar what we know and don’t know about the health systems response required to manage the aftermath of the COVID pandemic and minimize collateral damage. Professor Eagar discusses the human-centred waves of the pandemic as described by Dr Victor Tseng and their application to the Australian experience.
Read more →The Accord is an agreement between Sydney Health Partners’ (SHP) five major partners to standardise the information required from researchers when they apply for access to de-identified patient data, making it easier for researchers to obtain ethics and governance approval.
Read more →Spread the word. This year, the Health Services Research UK annual conference is going online, and it’s completely free to join. With six live plenaries, over a dozen sessions and 150 research presentations, all available to watch on the HSRUK website, there’ll be something for everyone with an interest in health services and care research, and its use in policy and practice.
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