Near and Far

The NIHR’s Regional and National Economic Impacts

Jon Sussex, Agne Ulyte, Susan Guthrie, Marco Hafner, Erez Yerushalmi, Devika Kapoor, Bhavya Singh, Imogen Wade, Saoirse Moriarty, Anna Louise Todsen

ResearchPosted on rand.org Sep 16, 2026Published in: NIHR Open Research (2026). DOI: 10.3310/nihropenres.1115350.1

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) invests around £1.6bn of public money each year in health and care research through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The aim of this report is to look into how much economic benefit the UK and its regions get from research spending through the NIHR. We were asked in particular to look at how spending in any one region of the UK has economic effects on other regions.

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  • Copyright: F1000 Research Limited
  • Publisher: NIHR Open Research
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2026
  • Pages: 244
  • Document Number: EP-71501

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