A Prize Worth Paying?
Non-standard ways to support and reward excellence in health research and development in the UK NHS
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This is a short paper scoping the issues involved in considering the merits of using prizes to support the objectives of the Department of Health Research and Development Directorate (DH R&D). The paper concludes that there is indeed merit in developing incentives to support excellence in health research in addition to 'standard' performance management and routine inspection. These could act either to reinforce the signals created by standard metrics (for example, awards recognising the best performers as measured by standard metrics) or they could 'fill the gaps' to encourage behaviour not influenced by conventional incentives. This would create an ecosystem to more effectively link reward with motivation, which could deliver benefits for patients and the health care system more widely. Prizes, it is argued, should play a more significant role in the UK health R&D system than in the past but it is not suggested that they replace existing systems to support high-quality research and development.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
The use of metrics and incentives in standard performance management
Chapter Three
Beyond metrics and indicators: incentivising further improvements in performance
Chapter Four
Non-standard incentives in research and development in the NHS
Chapter Five
Conclusions
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