Background Research funding bodies have significantly increased emphasis on the need
for public involvement in research with the requirement to evidence effective methods and …

Plain English summary Plain English summary Public involvement is required for applied
health research funded in the UK. One of the largest funders, the National Institute of Health …

Increasing pressure to improve health outcomes of populations with limited resources has
prompted an emphasis on innovation. Design thinking has been proposed as a systematic …

Background Capacity building strategies are widely used to increase the use of research in
policy development. However, a lack of well-validated measures for policy contexts has …

Abstract Background The English National Health Service has made a major investment in
nine partnerships between higher education institutions and local health services called …

Background Patient and public involvement and engagement is an important and expected
component of health-related research activity in the UK. Specifically within the health …

The past decades in the UK have witnessed renewed interest by policymakers, research
funders and research institutions in the engagement of non-academic individuals, groups …

Objective There is a widely held assumption that engagement by clinicians and healthcare
organisations in research improves healthcare performance at various levels, but little direct …

Background: To improve the use of evidence in policy and practice, many organisations and
individuals seek to promote research-policy engagement activities, but little is known about …

Aims: Stakeholder engagement is fundamental to comparative effectiveness research
(CER), but lacks consistent terminology. This paper aims to define stakeholder engagement …