The New South Wales (NSW) State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) and Insurance and Care NSW (icare) have renewed their partnership with the John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research (JWCRR).
For 20 years, SIRA and icare have partnered with the JWCRR to improve the lives of people living with an injury-related disability.
As part of the renewed agreement, both NSW compensation agencies granted $9.6 million over five years to the research centre to fund its core senior academic positions to undertake their widely recognised work in rehabilitation research, knowledge translation, and evaluation.
SIRA chief executive Adam Dent said the grants will build on the compensation agency's ongoing investment into research to support the health and recovery outcomes for injured people in NSW.
“In the last five years, the JWCRR has leveraged almost $40 million in funding from SIRA and icare's $5.32 million investment to continue their research activities,” Dent said.
“The outcomes of this research directly benefit injured people in both SIRA's personal injury schemes by providing evidence-based advice, informing policy, and legislative changes. We are delighted to continue this successful partnership to make personal injury schemes in NSW sustainable and improve the outcomes of people who make claims.”
A named Centre of the University of Sydney and a research group within the Northern Sydney Local Health District Kolling Institute, the JWCRR aims to:
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