Engaging practitioners in research; time to change the values of practice rather than the way research is carried out?

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The paper by Salmon et al. 1 challenges many of the agreed international ‘norms’ for engaging practitioners in research projects. A group of UK researchers explore the reasons why only 67 out of 1934 family practitioners contacted agreed to take part in a study. We have all assumed that making time and resource available for practices, engaging practitioners in the design and prioritization of research projects and increasing their own research skills would increase the volume of research carried out in primary care. Indeed, much of the past 14 years' initiatives in the UK, from primary care research networks, research capacity development programmes and now the UK Clinical Research Collaboration 2, have been founded on these principles. Salmon et al. find that it is not ‘time, money and lack of relevance’ that dissuade practitioners from taking part but a lack of prioritization based on perceived threats to professional autonomy and a lack of personal incentive.

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