Last month, the NIHR Oxford BRC and the UK Cochrane Collaboration organised the Oxford Impact 2018 workshop, which brought together people from a wide range of fields to “think differently about research impact”.
The event sought to tackle one of the central challenges of what has become known as the ‘impact agenda’ in healthcare research: the disparity between what science delivers and what many patients need.
Prof Trish Greenhalgh, NIHR Oxford BRC Theme Lead for Partnerships for Health, Wealth and Innovation, has written a blog outlining what was discussed and what the next steps are.