Policy Documents - 2012
At the first anniversary of the 2011 Clinical Trials Summit, ACAHO, Rx&D and CIHR reflect on the year since the 2011 Summit and give a six month progress report since the Action Plan's release. The collective commitment to action and the sincerity of stakeholders in mobilizing positive changes in the clinical trials landscape is evidenced by the efforts of many.
December 2012
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To Your Health & Prosperity - An Action Plan to Help Attract More Clinical Trials to Canada is the action plan from the 2011 National Clinical Trials Summit. It is the third and final paper in a trilogy of papers from the clinical trial summit hosted by Rx&D, CIHR, and ACAHO. It reflects a vision for Canada as a premier country for industry led clinical trials. The goals of the action plan are to help halt and reverse a downward investment trend, improve overall business practices as they pertain to clinical trial start up times, and present a forward looking business opportunity through information and incentives for global companies. The action plan contains nine recommendations in three strategies. The first recommendation encapsulates its implementation through potential alignment with the Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (SPOR). This final version of the action plan also contains an appendix which reflects feedback given on the final draft. This feedback is largely supportive and also instructional as it pertains to the implementation of this plan. AS such, it is considered part of the final document.
March 2012
Towards an Action Plan - Proceedings from the 2011 Clinical Trials Summit is the second in a trilogy of papers from the September 2011 Clinical Trials Summit hosted by Rx&D, CIHR and ACAHO. The goal of the summit is to enable development of an action plan that will help Canada regain capacity to attract clinical trial opportunities. The proceedings reflect a day long discussion with 130 experts from various sectors on how to improve cost, quality, speed and relationships as they pertain to clinical trial start up times and other issues. They include discussion notes from break out rooms on streamlining ethics reviews, patient recruitment, facilitating administrative issues, cost issues, and strategic infrastructure. The proceedings include interpretation of the comments into potential actionables. These actionables were circulated to delegates in November for feedback which now appears in an Appendix. The feedback and proceedings will form the basis of the action plan.
March 2012
The purpose of this report is to address the following three questions: what are the top three research priorities that ACAHO members are focused on? how do these priorities map against the Canadian Institutes of Health Research's (CIHR) four pillars of health research and the emerging health and health system challenges that have been identified by governments, health charities and CIHR?; and how are these priorities aligned with the federal government's Science and Technology Strategy and its sub-themes for health?
- Supplemental document: Hospital News Special Report on Research
February 2012