NIHR Open Data Award HRCS Research Activities Coding and Apportionment Dataset

Health Research Classification System (HRCS) is a bespoke system for classifying the full spectrum of biomedical and health research – from basic to applied – across all areas of health and disease. During the application process, we aim to determine the proportion it is aligned to HRCS by: Health Categories - the topic or disease of interest Research Activities - the type of research See hrcsonline.net/ for further information including details of the taxonomies that our portfolios are coded against.

This table also acts as a lookup table for the Consolidated View dataset. The dataset is updated quarterly, and the data in this edition is up to date as of the 31st March 2026.