Key milestones
1990
- Intensive Care Society's APACHE II study in Britain and Ireland completed (Outcome comparisons of intensive care units in Great Britain and Ireland using the APACHE II method)
1991
- Proposal to set up a national centre for comparative audit and evaluative research in intensive care submitted to the Department of Health by Professor Kathy Rowan, on behalf of the Intensive Care Society
1992
- Intensive Care Society's APACHE II study published
1993
- Financial support obtained from the Department of Health and the Welsh Health Common Services Authority for two years to support the establishment of ICNARC
1994
- ICNARC set up to provide an independent, national resource for the monitoring and evaluation of intensive care
- Case Mix Programme (CMP) set up to audit patient outcomes from adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
1995
- First group of critical care units join the Case Mix Programme
1998
- First Annual Meeting of the Case Mix Programme
1999
- Medical Research Council funded a study to develop and validate the optimum method for risk adjustment of hospital mortality for adult intensive care in the United Kingdom
2002
- First non-commercial multicentre randomised controlled trial in critical care - an evaluation of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of pulmonary artery flotation catheters in intensive care (PAC-Man), funded by the NHS R&D HTA Programme
2004
- One funded research grant awarded by the NIHR Service Delivery & Organisation (SDO) Programme - Outreach
2006
- 500,000 patients in the Case Mix Programme Database
2007
- ICNARC model published (the most accurate predictor of mortality for UK patients)
2008
- One funded research grant awarded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme – FIRE
2009
- Clinical Trials Unit awarded provisional registration by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration (UKCRC)
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Five funded research grants awarded by the NIHR HTA Programme - RAIN, CALORIES, ProMISe, IVIG, SwiFT
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National Cardiac Arrest Audit (NCAA) set up (national clinical audit of in-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK and Ireland - a joint initiative between the Resuscitation Council (UK) and ICNARC)
2011
- 1 million patients in the Case Mix Programme Database
- One funded research grant awarded by the NIHR Health Services & Delivery Research (HS&DR) Programme – Risk modelling
2012
- Clinical Trials Unit awarded full registration by the UKCRC
- One funded research grant awarded by the NIHR HS&DR Programme – FREE
- Move to new office in Holborn, Central London due to expansion
2013
- One funded research grant awarded by the NIHR HS&DR Programme – POPPI
2014
- 1.5 million patients in the Case Mix Programme Database