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Research Assessment Exercise 2008
Staff from HERU made a major contribution to the University's submission to Unit of Assessment 7 (UoA 7), Health Services Research. The Health Services Research return was the highest scoring return for the University of Aberdeen and with a grade point average of 3.05 was joint top of the UK league in health services research. RAE 2008 confirmed that 80% of the research submitted to UoA 7 by the University of Aberdeen was judged as internationally excellent/world class, with ALL the work identified as of international quality.

National Insitute for Health Research to provide Technology Assessment Reviews (TARs)

Researchers from HERU, HSRU and Population Health along with colleagues from the University of Dundee and Robert Gordon's University have recently won a new contract with the National Insitute for Health Research to provide Technology Assessment Reviews (TARs).  TARs are commissioned to meet the urgent needs of national NHS decision-making bodies, such as the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), who provide guidance on the use of new medicines and other new health care technologies within the NHS.  In addition to informing NICE and other NHS bodies, the research reported within TARs is considered the best authoritative evidence available worldwide on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness questions, with each TAR downloaded or accessed tens of thousands times.  The current contract, which has run since 2001, is now extended until 2016.  For further information, see http://www.hta.ac.uk/news/newsitem180110.shtml.