We're making progress with our new digital service, plan and manage health and care research. With each new release, we're making practical improvements that respond to user feedback, deliver more value for users, and help make the service clearer, simpler and easier to use. This work also supports a more joined-up environment for health and care research. It's an important contributor to helping the UK become Europe’s leading life sciences economy by 2030, and to making sure high-quality research can happen more efficiently for the benefit of patients, the public and the wider health and care system. Thank you to everyone who has shared their feedback and expertise so far - your input is helping us build services that work better for everyone. Matt Westmore Chief Executive, Health Research Authority

New release marks another step forward

We've recently released additional functionality for existing users of plan and manage health and care research. This is another important step in the continued development of the service and lays the foundation for future development.

This release made the service more flexible, clearer, and easier to use.

Invitations to Chief Investigators

Our latest release means researchers can add collaborators, so more than one person can access and manage projects. This means that chief investigators can now access and manage projects directly in the service.

We have written to all chief investigators who are involved in projects that have been added to plan and manage health and care research to ask you to register so that you can start using the service.

What's next?

Hear more about our progress

We share the very latest about plan and manage health and care research in our interactive show and tell sessions, via Teams. The next session is on Tuesday 8 September, 2 to 3pm, and everyone is welcome to attend. You'll be able to hear more about the progress we're making and see a demonstration of the latest updates to the service.