title: Supporting the Development of a New Health R&D Strategy: A Rapid Review of International Theory and Practice for Norway's HelseOmsorg21.
abstract: The HelseOmsorg21 initiative was set up by the Ministry of Health and Care Services to develop a new research and innovation strategy for health and care services in Norway. The HelseOmsorg21 Strategy Group, through the Research Council of Norway which is providing the secretariat for the strategy development, asked RAND Europe to support the strategic review process. RAND Europe's role was to conduct a series of rapid evidence reviews around the recommendations arising from the five working groups that comprise the initiative. The reviews were conducted around networks and collaboration, data linkage and exchange, culture, values and leadership, and incentives for innovation, while capacity building was a recurrent theme throughout. This study presents the rapid evidence reviews, summarising relevant literature and highlighting international examples of particularly relevant or innovative approaches. The issues and ideas identified around each theme are then pulled together in a suggested conceptual representation of the Norwegian health and care research system.
authors.forename: Jonathan
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authors.lastname: Grant
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pollitt
authors.forename: Sophie
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authors.lastname: Castle-Clarke
authors.forename: Gavin
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authors.lastname: Cochrane
authors.forename: Susanne
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authors.lastname: Sondergaard
authors.forename: Veronika
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authors.lastname: Horvath