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  • If we wish to establish a sustainable research agenda within mental health, is it wise to ask a group of eminent researchers how we should go about it? It will not be a great surprise if the answer that such a group will come up with is that we should have more research

  • The authors set out by saying that they want to identify ‘the important gaps in research coverage, in areas key to the National Service Framework for Mental Health and the NHS Plan’, what they appear to end up highlighting are the problems with research infrastructure in mental health in general, rather than anything linked to the national policy initiatives

  • Say, for example, if we were interested in establishing patient preferences of the direction of mental health research, these most rudimentary methodological details would have been made available before submitting the findings for publication

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If we wish to establish a sustainable research agenda within mental health, is it wise to ask a group of eminent researchers how we should go about it? It will not be a great surprise if the answer that such a group will come up with is that we should have more research. The authors set out by saying that they want to identify ‘the important gaps in research coverage, in areas key to the National Service Framework for Mental Health and the NHS Plan’, what they appear to end up highlighting are the problems with research infrastructure in mental health in general, rather than anything linked to the national policy initiatives.

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