Organization: | U.K. Department of Health / National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) |
Website: | www.nihr.ac.uk/ |
Country: | United Kingdom (GBR) |
Annual expenditures on health research (in million 2013 US dollars): | 491.2 |
Annual expenditures on health research (in million 2013 PPP US dollars): | 463.4 |
Annual funding for health research in original currency (in millions): | 309.1 |
Original currency: | British pound |
Type of funder: | Public |
Year from which funding data were derived: | 2012 |
Description of source from which the data were acquired: | National Institute for Health Research,Annual Report 2012/2013 |
Source link: | http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/26f799ac |
Other notes: | For funding organizations that are ministries, only direct support for health research was included, and not any health-related research funded by block grants to universities, hospitals or research institutes. Annually, the UK Department of Health distributes 208.9 million pounds in research programmes through the NIHR, and 100.2 million pound in people awards. These amounts were included in the total amount of funding for this organization. The amount that is spent on infrastructure, 618.9 million pound, and on systems, 26.9 million pounds, was not included. |