Supporting Research in the NHS: response to consultation on ETCs and commercial research

NHS England’s response to the public consultation: “Supporting Research in the NHS: A consultation covering changes to simplify arrangements for research in the NHS and associated changes to the terms of the NHS Standard Contract”
NHS England 4 May 2018

• A summary of responses received to the consultation on simplifying arrangements relating to Excess Treatment Costs (ETCs) in non-commercial research and commercial contract research. accompanied by details of 12 agreed actions to support and apply research in the NHS. 
• Specialised Commissioning will be developing a new process to be unified with the new ETC management process. The intention is to publish a planned specialised commissioning process by end of June 2018 which will be tested with stakeholders.