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Council", "folder_name": "National-Health-and-Medical-Research-Council-Council", "category": "Staff Productivity", "scale": "small", "title": "Reusable briefing and summary assistant for internal documents", "idea": "Create controlled templates for summarising reports, submissions, minutes, and ministerial briefs.", "quote": "Table 2 Portfolio Budget Statement – NHMRC expenses and resources\nOutcome 1: Improved health and medical knowledge,\nincluding through funding research, translating Actual\nresearch findings into evidence-based clinical Budget* Expenses Variation\npractice, administering legislation governing research, 2014-15 2014-15 2014-15\nissuing guidelines and advice for ethics in health and $’000 $’000 $’000\nthe promotion of public health. 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