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Table 4 Awareness of research support infrastructure in the UK

From: Allied health professionals’ perceptions of research in the United Kingdom national health service: a survey of research capacity and culture

 

No knowledge/ never heard of them

Heard of them but little knowledge / awareness

Some knowledge/ awareness

Fairly good knowledge/ awareness

In-depth knowledge/ awareness

Not applicable

Council for Allied Health Professions Research (CAHPR) (3145 AHPs across all countries)

983 (31)

1017 (33)

669 (21)

347 (11)

116 (4)

4 (0)

NIHR England (2922 AHPs in England)

281 (10)

781 (27)

931 (32)

656 (22)

260 (9)

7 (0)

Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) training programmes NIHR/HEE (2922 AHPs in England)

1557 (54)

577 (20)

324 (11)

217 (7)

192 (7)

43 (1)

The Health and Social Care Public Health Agency (HSC PHA) in Northern Ireland (67 AHPs in N.Ireland))

7 (11)

16 (25)

19 (29)

17 (26)

4 (6)

2 (3)

Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI) Fellowship Awards (67 AHPs in N.Ireland))

27 (40)

17 (25)

11 (17)

9 (13)

3 (5)

0 (0)

Northern Ireland Clinical Research Network (NICRN) (67 AHPs in N Ireland)

24 (36)

17 (26)

10 (15)

11 (17)

1 (1)

3 (5)

The Chief Scientist Office (CSO) Scotland (121 AHPs in Scotland)

50 (42)

29 (24)

28 (24)

6 (5)

5 (4)

1 (1)

NHS Research Scotland (NRS) career researcher fellowships (121 AHPs in Scotland)

36 (30)

41 (34)

28 (23)

6 (5)

9 (7)

1 (1)

Health and Care Research Wales (35 AHPs in Wales)

10 (29)

10 (29)

8 (23)

2 (5)

5 (14)

0 (0)

Research Capacity Building Collaboration (RCBC) Wales (35 AHPs in Wales)

21 (60)

3 (9)

1 (2)

3 (9)

7 (20)

0(0)

  1. All values represent number of responses (percentage) from participants for whom the question was relevant