The publication describes outcomes, achievements against program objectives, issues identified through the program evaluation, the future of Centres of Clinical Excellence in Hospital-Based Research and recommendations.
Synopsis
The Centres of Clinical Excellence in Hospital-Based Research Program, an initiative of the Health Throughout Life policy, commenced in 1997. It aimed to foster clinical research in the hospital setting, thereby improving the capacity to translate medical research into clinical practice. Specifically, the aims of the program were to:
- foster clinical research and the training of clinical researchers;
- support innovative clinical research, including research with potential to translate into successful clinical treatments, and
- ensure effective translation of biomedical research into clinical practice
Eight Centres were funded under this program.
In December 2000, the Minister for Health and Aged Care approved an evaluation of the CCE program.
