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 |