Case Studies of Members of the NIHR Faculty

• Full time university employee in a School of Nursing, carrying out teaching, administrative duties and research.
• One day per week of her time (20% of total salary) is funded for three years by an NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) project grant. The balance of her time is funded by other research and teaching income.

• She is an NIHR Faculty member because part of her salary is funded from an NIHR funding source.

• She is an NIHR Investigator because of her role in doing research, funded by NIHR SDO Programme.

• She would cease to be a member of Faculty when the SDO funding ends unless she secures further NIHR funding, but she has submitted and is named as a researcher on further proposals for NIHR Funding and would therefore anticipates continuing as an NIHR Investigator.

Research Capability Funding arrangements 
(formerly Flexibility and Sustainability Funding)

• Her university employer is not eligible for NIHR Research Capability Funding.
• Universities, unlike NHS organisations, are eligible to receive Higher Education Funding Council for England Quality Related (HEFCE QR) funding. The amount of QR funding paid to universities is determined through the Research Assessment Exercise. QR funding supporting flexible research capacity in an analogous way to FSF, being allocated selectively according to quality.
• NHS partner Trusts may choose to use their Research Capability Funding to support her university salary and research activities.

• She has agreed, in a research proposal, to present findings at an NIHR event.
• She acts as a peer reviewer for research proposals produced by NHS based colleagues who have similar research interests but less experience of doing research.

• Senior staff nurse employed by an acute Trust, whose clinical role includes the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and support of patients with renal impairment.
• He works one day a week as a member of a research team studying nursing interventions for people with renal disease. This time (20% of total salary) is funded for three years by the grant from the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit programme.
• He also works as a research nurse supporting multi-centre clinical trials in renal disease run from elsewhere. Two days per week of his time (40% of total salary) is spent on this activity and is funded through the NIHR Comprehensive Research Network.
• The balance of his time, two days per week in a clinical role, is funded by NHS patient care funds.

• The Clinical Nurse Practitioner is a member of NIHR Faculty because part of his salary is funded from an NIHR funding source (in this case two NIHR funding sources).

• He is an NIHR Investigator because of his role in doing research, funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme.
• He is also an NIHR Associate because of his role in supporting research funded by the NIHR Comprehensive Research Network.

• The Clinical Nurse Practitioner would cease to be an NIHR Investigator when the SDO funding ends, unless he secures further NIHR funding to do research. However, the NHS Trust intends this person to maintain a long-term commitment to doing research, so it will use some of its NIHR Research Capability Funding to pay for his time after the Research for Patient Benefit-funded project is completed, and until he secures further research funding. He therefore will remain an NIHR Investigator.
• His membership of NIHR Faculty as an NIHR Associate will continue for so long as he supports multi-centre clinical trials.

Research Capability Funding arrangements 
(formerly Flexibility and Sustainability Funding)

• His Trust employer receives NIHR Research Capability Funding in proportion to the amount of other NIHR income received by the Trust including the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit programme and NIHR Comprehensive Research Network funding.

• He participates in discussion of research on renal impairment via NIHR discussion forums accessed via the NIHR Portal.

• Senior Lecturer and full time university employee with a broad teaching role in physiotherapy. Her main research interests are in rehabilitation.
• Whilst she does not directly hold any NIHR research grants, she is however the Lead for an NIHR Programme of Applied Research on wound healing in the university's partner NHS Trust.
• The partner NHS Trust uses part of the funding it receives for the NIHR Programme of Applied Research to reimburse the University for her research contribution to the wound healing programme (one day per week; 20% of salary) for the duration of the programme.
• The remainder of her time is funded by other research and teaching income.

• She is an NIHR Faculty member because part of her salary is funded from an NIHR funding source

• She is an NIHR Investigator because of her role in doing research, funded by the NIHR Programme of Applied Research.

• She would cease to be an NIHR Investigator when the NIHR Programme of Applied Research funding finishes unless further NIHR funding is secured to support her salary, however she has submitted and is named as a researcher on further proposals for NIHR Funding and would therefore expect to continue as an NIHR Investigator.

• The NHS Trust receives NIHR Research Capability Funding in proportion to its total NIHR Funding, and therefore receives NIHR F&S Funding as a result of the NIHR Programme of Applied Research on wound healing.
• The NHS Trust uses some of this NIHR Research Capability Funding to pay for research administrative support for the research based in the Trust.
• Whilst her university employer is not eligible for NIHR Research Capability Funding, the university's partner NHS Trust could choose to use its Flexibility and Sustainability funding to support her salary and sustain her research activities.

• She is active in advising research colleagues in the University and NHS Trust on the preparation of aligned funding applications.

• Clinical medical academic employed by a medical school, holding an honorary NHS contract as a consultant. She provides NHS clinical services and teaches; her research interests include leading a randomised controlled trial of blood glucose control in diabetes funded for three years by the NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme. She spends one day a week (20% of her time) on this study.
• She also enters patients into multi-centre clinical trials run from a different centre, spending approximately half day a week (10% of salary) on this activity, supported by NIHR Clinical Research Network funds. These are paid to the partner Trust, which reimburses her University employer.
• She is also a Theme Lead for diabetic retinopathy research within the University's partner NHS Trust, on which she spends one day per week (20% of salary), funded by an NIHR Biomedical Research Centre grant to the University's partner NHS Trust that then reimburses the University.
• The remainder of her time is supported by patient care and teaching funds.

• She is an NIHR Faculty member because part of her salary is funded from an NIHR funding source.

• She is an NIHR Investigator because of her role in doing research on the HTA funded blood glucose control study and in diabetic retinopathy within the Biomedical Research Centre.
• She is also an NIHR Associate because of her role in supporting research by entering patients into multi-centre clinical trials run from elsewhere, supported by NIHR Clinical Network funds.

• She would cease to be an NIHR Investigator when the HTA and Biomedical Centre funding comes to an end, however further applications for NIHR Funding are planned, on which she will be named, in order to develop her research, so she would expect to continue as an NIHR Investigator.

Research Capability Funding arrangements 
(formerly Flexibility and Sustainability Funding)

• The partner NHS Trust receives NIHR Research Capability Funding in proportion to its total NIHR Funding, including funding for the Clinical Network and Biomedical Centre.
• The partner NHS Trust opts to use some of its NIHR Research Capability Funding to pay for research administrative support based in the Trust, supporting the Professor of Endocrinology's research activities in the Trust.
• The NIHR Research Capability Funding received by the NHS Trust may if necessary, be used by the Trust to cover her time once the HTA project funded project ends. The Trust could choose to reimburse the partner University to sustain her input and seek to extent this research, until a further grant is secured.

• A summary of key research outputs will be made available to research colleagues nationally via the NIHR Portal.

• An NHS Consultant working part time (8 Programmed Activities), undertaking clinical duties providing multi-disciplinary cancer care with haematology and palliative care colleagues across 3 NHS Trusts in a Cancer Services Network, these duties being funded by NHS patient care funds.
• In addition to clinical duties, the Consultant enters patients into a number of clinical trials led from different centres, spending half a day a week (10% of salary) on this activity, supported by NIHR Cancer Research Network funding.
• The Consultant has noticed an apparent improvement in the wellbeing of patients who take a fresh-food-only diet and he is interested in conducting a pilot research study to test this formally.

• The Consultant is an NIHR Faculty member because part of his salary is funded from an NIHR funding source.

• He is an NIHR Associate because of his role in supporting research by entering patients into multi-centre clinical trials funded by NIHR Cancer Research Network funding.

• His membership of NIHR Faculty as an NIHR Associate will continue for so long as he supports multi-centre clinical trials, supported through NIHR Research Network funding.

Research Capability Funding arrangements 
(formerly Flexibility and Sustainability Funding)

• The NHS Trust receives NIHR Research Capability Funding in proportion to its total other NIHR Funding, including that arising from participation in the Cancer Research Network.
• Some of the Trust's NIHR Research Capability Funding will be used to fund the time of the Consultant required to prepare an application to the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit project grant scheme, for a pilot study on the effects of a fresh-food-only diet on the wellbeing of cancer patients. When such a proposal is funded by NIHR, the Consultant will become an NIHR Investigator.

• The Consultant is able to access a directory of members of NIHR Faculty, to search for potential collaborators in preparing research proposals and collaborating in research on fresh food diets.
• The Consultant is also able to participate in network training activities and conferences.

• Medical Physicist employed by an NHS Teaching Hospital providing clinical services as a Medical Physicist.
• He is a member of a research team that is examining methods of bone mineral density measurement within an NIHR Programme of Applied Research on osteoporosis. He spends one day per week on this project (20% of salary) funded by NIHR Programme of Applied Research funding for five years.
• He also supports an imaging service to a prostate cancer research project which is funded by Cancer Research UK (CRUK) spending half a day a week (10% of salary) providing this support, for which the NHS Trust receives service support through NIHR Technology Platform funding.
• The balance of his time, spent providing clinical services, is supported by NHS Patient Care funds.

• He is an NIHR Faculty member because part of his salary is funded from an NIHR funding source.

• The Medical Physicist is an NIHR Investigator because of his role in doing research on the osteoporosis study, funded by the NIHR Programme of Applied Research.
• He is an NIHR Associate because of his role in providing imaging service support for the CRUK-funded prostate cancer project.

• His Investigator status within NIHR Faculty will continue whilst his salary is supported by the NIHR Programme grant, however the Trust has made the strategic decision to develop this area of research and is preparing further applications for NIHR programme and project funding so he is likely to continue in this capacity.
• His membership as an NIHR Associate will continue for so long as he provides the imaging service supported by NIHR Technology Platform Funding.

• The NHS Trust receives NIHR Research Capability Funding in proportion to its total other NIHR Funding, which includes the NIHR Programme of Applied Research and the Technology Platform funding.
• The Trust intends to use some of this funding to provide strategic support to employ an additional Medical Physicist who is intended to be research-active once established in the Trust, but who will not initially have any research funding when he starts in post.

• The Medical Physicist is able to access selected research outputs via the NIHR Portal.

• Chief Radiopharmaceutical Scientist employed by an NHS Teaching Hospital Trust and Affiliated Senior Lecturer in Radiology in the University School of Clinical Science, responsible for the scientific and technical work of the department, and providing a clinical service.
• He spends half a day per week (10% of salary) leading a research project funded through NIHR Research Programme funding, and half a day per week (10% of salary) contributing to three other research projects, supported by Biomedical Research Centre funds.
• He spends one day per week (20% of salary) supporting others' research through conducting clinical service analyses, supported by Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre funds.
• The balance of his time is supported by NHS patient care and by teaching funds.

• He is an NIHR Faculty member because part of his salary is funded from NIHR funding sources.

• He is an NIHR Investigator because of his role in doing research funded by NIHR Research Programme and Biomedical Centre funding.
• He is an NIHR Associate because of his support for others' research supported by Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre funds.

• The Chief Radiopharmaceutical Scientist will continue as an NIHR Investigator and Associate for so long as components of his work involve doing and supporting research. Given the range and extent and of the NHS Teaching Hospital's involvement in research requiring his input he can be confident these roles will be sustained.

Research Capability Funding arrangements 
(formerly Flexibility and Sustainability Funding)

• The NHS Teaching Hospital receives NIHR Research Capability Funding in proportion to its total NIHR funding, which includes the Research Programme, Biomedical Research Centre and Experimental Cancer Medicine funds.

• He has ready access to a range of journals on UKPubMed Central, accessed via the NIHR Portal.

• Clinical Psychologist employed by an NHS acute Trust, working as a member of a multidisciplinary team providing inpatient and outpatient services; providing a clinical service assessing neurological deficits and providing psychological therapy.
• The Psychologist is also responsible for service audit and evaluation, and is the initial stages of seeking to establish a new programme of research spending half a day per week (10% of salary) on this latter activity, which is supported flexibly by the Trust via NIHR Flexibility and Sustainability Funding.
• He spends half a day per week (10% of salary) supporting a trial of the use of cognitive therapies, which is being run from a different centre, conducting assessments for which he is supported by Clinical Research Network funds.
• The remaining four days a week of his time (80% of salary) is supported by NHS patient care funds.

• He is an NIHR Faculty member because part of his salary is funded from an NIHR funding source, in this case two sources: NIHR Flexibility and Sustainability Funding and Clinical Research Network funds.

• He is an NIHR Investigator because of his role in developing new research.
• He is an NIHR Associate because of his role in supporting research in clinical networks.

• He will remain an NIHR Investigator for the duration of his employer's investment of NIHR Flexibility and Sustainability Funding. The intention is that this investment will lead to successful applications for NIHR project funding, which will maintain his status as an NIHR Investigator.
• He will remain an NIHR Associate for the duration of his involvement with the trial, supported by Clinical Research Network funds.

Research Capability Funding arrangements 
(formerly Flexibility and Sustainability Funding)

• His employer Trust receives NIHR Research Capability Funding in proportion to its total NIHR Funding, an element that relates to the Clinical Research Network funding which supports the Psychologist's work on the cognitive therapies trial.
• The Trust uses a proportion of its other Research Capability Funding to pay for his time spent scoping new research and preparing bids for NIHR Funding.

• The Consultant Clinical Psychologist is able to use a directory of members of NIHR Faculty, accessible via the NIHR Portal, to seek potential collaborators in applications for research funding.
• He is also via the NIHR Portal able to offer specialist advice on assessment of cognitive deficits.

• Principal Physiotherapist employed by a Primary Care Trust. Her main duties involve operational management of musculoskeletal outpatient physiotherapy services at an acute hospital, providing a clinical service and team leadership.
• She is also responsible for research and audit, which includes seeking opportunities to involve the service in research projects, and supporting clinical physiotherapy staff in undertaking pilot research projects. The PCT uses NIHR Flexibility and Sustainability Funding to support her for half a day per week (10% of salary) in order to contribute to development of evidence based practice in the PCT.
• The balance of her time is supported by patient care funds for providing a clinical service.

• The Principal Physiotherapist is a member of NIHR Faculty because part of her salary s funded from an NIHR Funding source, in this case Flexibility and Sustainability Funding.

• She is an NIHR Investigator because of her role in establishing and conducting research.

• The Principal Physiotherapist will remain an NIHR Investigator for as long as a proportion of her salary is supported by NIHR funding.
• She is submitting in collaboration with colleagues from a partner university, an application for NIHR Research for Patient Benefit funding on which she is named and which if successful will consolidate her status as an NIHR Investigator.

Research Capability Funding arrangements 
(formerly Flexibility and Sustainability Funding)

• The PCT receives NIHR Research Capability Funding arising from its total other NIHR research funding.
• The PCT chooses to use a proportion of its NIHR Research Capability Funding to support the Principal Physiotherapist's salary to enable her to develop physiotherapy research in the PCT, with the intention this will be lead ultimately to increased NIHR project grant income.

• The Principal Physiotherapist is able to use the NIHR Portal to access resources to support development of research activities including research Contact, Help, Advice and Information Networks (CHAIN); professional colleagues in other areas of the country with similar research interests; software tools to assist in the production of research proposals; and to have research proposals and outputs reviewed by peers.

• Dietitian employed by a Primary Care Trust to provide and develop a nutrition and dietetic service, advising professionals and others in the community.
• Her duties include evaluating the impact of service development, including developing research and audit activities. As part of this she is a member of a research team with researchers from a partner University's Department of Public Health as part of a national study on interventions to address the health impact of inequalities in diet. This study is funded by an NIHR Project Grant.
• Her research role is funded for one day per week (20% of salary) through the NIHR Project Grant awarded to the partner University, which in turn buys out her salary costs from the PCT for one day per week.
• The balance of her time (80% of salary) is funded from NHS patient care funds.

• The Dietitian is a member of NIHR Faculty because her salary is funded from an NIHR funding source.

• She is an NIHR Investigator because of her role in doing research.

• The Dietitian will remain an NIHR Investigator for as long as her salary continues to be supported by the NIHR Project Grant.
• She will be named on further applications, which her university colleagues intend to submit for NIHR Project funding, so this status is likely to continue.

• The funds paid by University to the PCT to buy out the Dietitians salary are not NIHR funding, and so do not attract NIHR Research Capability Funding.
• The Dietitians contributing to research output at the University will enhance the extent to which the University Department is likely to attract Higher Education Funding Council for England Quality Related (HEFCE QR) funding.

• The Dietitian is able via the NIHR Portal to access professional colleagues in other areas of the country who have similar research interests, to offer and receive advice on developing new research.

• Medical statistician employed in a University Department of Health Sciences, undertaking an NIHR Research Training Fellowship in Health Services Research.
• The researcher is funded for 100% of salary over three years to undertake research and training on evidence synthesis, and is expected to contribute to research and publication within the Department of Health Sciences. His training will include elements on economic modelling and genetic epidemiology; and on project management and team working.
• An NIHR Personal Award, the purpose of which is to support his transition to a research leadership role, funds all salary, payroll and training costs.

• The Post-Doctoral researcher is a member of NIHR Faculty because his salary is funded from an NIHR funding source.

• He is an NIHR Trainee because his salary is supported by an NIHR Training Scheme.

• He will remain an NIHR Trainee for the three years of his award.
• At the conclusion of the period of the award NIHR Trainee status will end. However as a future research leader he is expected to obtain further NIHR Funding leading to NIHR Investigator status.

Research Capability Funding arrangements 
(formerly Flexibility and Sustainability Funding)

• His university employer is not eligible for NIHR Research Capability Funding. By contributing to research output, the Post-Doctoral Researcher will enhance the extent to which the Department of Health Sciences is likely to attract Higher Education Funding Council for England Quality Related (HEFCE QR) funding.

• The Post-Doctoral Researchers will attend the NIHR Trainees Conference.
• He is able to offer ad hoc statistical advice to NIHR Faculty colleagues working in the NHS in discussion forums accessed via the NIHR Portal.

• Specialist Registrar, PhD holder, undertaking specialist registrar training in Clinical Pharmacology in a Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, employed by the Trust.
• She is funded by an NIHR Clinician Scientist award to conduct and lead research on tissue protective effects of erythropoietin. The NIHR funding applies over five years, for 50% of time through bought-out salary costs. The award also provides limited research start up costs.
• Funding for her main research project is not NIHR funding but has been secured from a major medical research charity, and is nationally competitive peer reviewed funding which attracts service support costs.
• The purpose of the award scheme is to build a cadre of research-led clinical academics capable of leading development in their fields of research.
• She retains NHS clinical duties for completion of specialist training, the balance of her salary being supported by Deanery and Trust funds.

• She is a member of NIHR Faculty member because part of his salary is funded from an NIHR funding source.

• She is an NIHR Trainee because a proportion of her salary is supported by an NIHR Training Scheme.

• The Specialist Registrar will remain an NIHR Trainee for the five years of her award.
• At the conclusion of the period of the award her NIHR Trainee status will end. However, as a future research leader she is expected to seek and obtain further NIHR Funding leading to NIHR Investigator status.

• The NHS Teaching Hospital Trust attracts NIHR Research Capability Funding in proportion to its total NIHR funding including that relating to the Specialist Registrar, which the Trust can use flexibly to sustain research salary costs.

• The Specialist Registrar will attend the NIHR Trainees Conference.

• Nurse Practitioner employed by a PCT spending 75% of his time conducting research to develop pragmatic methods for studying quality of care and outcomes for nursing home residents.
• His employer receives funding to enable equivalent replacement clinical cover at the mid-point of the appropriate Nurse Practitioner salary scale for 75% of time for three years.
• The Nurse Practitioner receives research training and mentorship from a University Department of Public Health.
• He is funded by NHS patient care funds for the remaining 25% of time, which is spent on clinical duties.

• He is a member of NIHR Faculty member because part of his salary is funded from an NIHR funding source.

• He is an NIHR Trainee because his salary is supported by an NIHR Training Scheme.

• The Nurse Practitioner will remain an NIHR Trainee for the three years of his award.
• At the conclusion of the period of his award NIHR Trainee status will end, however towards the end of the period of the award, as a future research leader he will be active in seeking further NIHR Funding leading to NIHR Investigator status.

• The PCT receives NIHR Research Capability Funding in proportion to its total NIHR funding.
• The PCT is able to use this funding flexibly to support the salaries of University-based researchers to enable them to develop research proposals on public health topics of local relevance to the PCT.

• The Nurse Practitioner will attend the NIHR Trainees conference.