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Research passport

The Government's health research strategy, Best Research for Best Health, announced the introduction of research passports, among several measures to improve the research environment, to make it quicker and easier to begin agreed studies.

With support from partners in the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC)  and from the NHS R and D Forum we have developed Research in the NHS - Human Resource (HR) Good Practice Resource Pack.  Details of the process and pilot can be found in Implementation Plan 4.1d Bureaucracy Busting: Research Passport.

The Good Practice Resource Pack provides guidance and good practice standards for the NHS and higher education, to achieve consistency in issuing and recognising NHS honorary research contracts. It lays the ground for the Comprehensive Local Research Networks to adopt the research passport as standard practice.

The Department of Health recommends the adoption of the Research Passport to the NHS, higher education institutions (HEIs) and other research employers working in partnership with the NIHR.

• Research in the NHS - Human resources (HR) good practice resource pack (opens new window)
• Best Research for Best Health Implementation plan 4.1d Research Passport - in Portable Document Format (opens new window)