Table 10 About accountability and performance across funding institutions by case
Country, institution | Actions related to accountability and performance |
|---|---|
Canada, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) | • Criteria for the selection process of board members online |
• Accountable to parliament through the Ministry of Health | |
• Resignation procedures in by-law | |
• Regular public reports: annual audit on finance, activities, quintennial review on management and governance | |
• Stakeholders involvement in review | |
• Review process of CIHR or its components with an independent international panel | |
• Online disclosure of reports, expenses, law and by-laws | |
• Online composition and terms of reference for committees | |
• CIHR code of ethics | |
• Limitation of consecutive mandates | |
• Regular reports on performance (CIHR audits, CIHR reviews, programme evaluations) | |
• Online decisions about the attribution of grants and committee members | |
• Planned performance indicators mentioned in roadmap | |
Australia, National Health and Medical Research Agency (NHMRC) | • Report on annual performance reached with a set of targets |
• Proceedings of agency meetings online | |
• Commissioner of complaints | |
• Online list of names of members of committees | |
• Internal audit committee | |
• Emphasis on integrity as an objective of strategic direction 2015–2019, and as a central activity of NHMRC in providing standards and guidelines | |
United States, National Institutes of Health (NIH) | • Online diffusion to the public (news radio, public lecture, free film festival) |
• Develop methodology to evaluate scientific investment | |
• Plans for review of peer-review process, administrative burdens | |
• Series of initiatives to enhance conduct of science | |
Singapore, National Medical Research Agency (NMRC) | • Annual report with financial data, projects and individuals funded |
• Internal procedures and activities not online | |
Sweden, Swedish Research Agency (SRC) and Scientific Council for Medicine (SCM) | • SRC investigates fraud in attribution of funding and manipulation of science results |
• Sweden and international reviewers on peer-review grant applications | |
• Online policies and SRC viewpoints | |
• Online decisions about the attribution of grants | |
United Kingdom, National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) | • Duty of Secretary of State for Health, NHS commissioning board, clinical commissioning groups in respect of research are written in Health and Social Care Act 2012 |
• Terms of reference and memberships of advisory board are online | |
• Terms of reference and membership of strategy board available online | |
• Relationships between research and improved quality of care to be reported based on an illustrative model statement | |
• Results of training competition are online | |
• Funding to NHS service providers have been conditional to professional management of health research since 2012 | |
• Agenda and minutes of advisory board are online | |
• Publication of NIHR-funded recipients online | |
• NIHR benchmarking of recipients of clinical studies | |
• Plan to publish NIHR trusts-level performance comparisons | |
The Netherlands, The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) | • A retiree leads each programme committee |
• List of committee members – not available | |
• List of grantees – not available | |
• Evaluation reports online |