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Strategic focus for research,
interventions and treatments
We’re pleased to continue
Alliance Sight Loss and Vision
grant funding bodies to drive
supporting the UK-wide
Priority Setting Partnership
strategic or commissioned
[5]
. These
Clinical Eye Research Strategy.
research priorities
This strategy explores areas
were based on what the
of unmet need and aims to
public, clinicians and
help facilitate and encourage a
researchers collectively agreed
pipeline of research in the UK.
were the most important
Ophthalmology is a growing
research area in the UK. It
recruits into research trials,
on average more than 15,000
patients annually. Despite
this active research there
are still many unanswered
questions about prevention,
loss charities to reassess and
update the 2013 James Lind
so that research targeting
greatest needs can be
prioritised for investment for
over a decade ago, has been
the benefit of patients and
published in a prestigious
public in the future.
[7]
journal, and is available at the
project’s dedicated website,
ukeyeresearchstrategy.ac.uk.
project will lead to the
stakeholders and other sight
to identify the questions of
highest clinical importance
and validate priorities set
eye conditions and sight loss.
collaborating with a range of
limited. So, it is important
focus on. This work, to update
The second part of the
project, the charity has been
Funding for eye research is
areas for eye research to
diagnosis, and treatment of
For the first part of the
funding calls.
[6]
development of frameworks,
like PICOs (Patient Intervention
Comparison Outcome), for
creating answerable research
questions. These can then
be used by or submitted to
£1,047,758
committed to
partnership funding
across seven projects.
Primary research areas for awards over the last six years
