About NETSCC

NETSCC is funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and was established at the University of Southampton in 2008.

UK government support for medical research is channelled primarily through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) and the Medical Research Council (MRC). Broadly speaking, the NIHR funds later-phase health research, which has the potential to influence the delivery of healthcare to patients, while the MRC supports basic and early clinical research. The two bodies work closely together, overseen by the Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research (OSCHR) to ensure that there is a continuum of research opportunities along the translational pathway and to sensure activites are coordinated.

NETSCC now manages five distinct but interconnected evaluation research programmes:
- Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme
- NIHR Health Services Research (HSR) programme
- NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme
- NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) programme
- NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) programme.

Who we are

NETSCC is a team of managers, academics, clinicians, researchers and support staff managed by a senior management team.

The senior management team of NETSCC is made up of the following:

Professor James Raftery, view biography Chair of NETSCC and Acting Director of SDO, HSR & PHR programmes (Service Delivery & Organisation, Health Services Research, & Public Health Research)

Lynn Kerridge, view biography Chief Executive Officer, NETSCC

Professor Ian Cree, view biography Director of NETSCC, EME (Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programme)

Dr Peter Davidson, view biography Director of NETSCC, HTA (Health Technology Assessment programme)

Michael Lovibond, view biography Director of Operations, NETSCC

Dr Ruairidh Milne, view biography Director of External Relations, NETSCC