Deadline: 4 August 2015
The Health Foundation is seeking applications for its Innovating for Improvement program in United Kingdom.
The foundation supports people working in health care practice and policy to make lasting improvements to health services.
Objectives
- Encourage health care services to develop innovative approaches and ideas to improve health care quality.
- Build a portfolio of well-described, real-life examples readily available to other health care organisations.
- Contribute to the evidence base of what can be done to improve quality.
- Generate solutions for further testing and demonstration at scale in health care.
Funding Information
- Projects will receive up to £75,000 each in funding.
- Up to 20 projects will be supported under the program.
Focus Areas
- equip people to manage their conditions and health care more effectively
- equip health care providers to improve the quality of care provided to their patients on a daily basis by making improvements in direct services for people with health care needs in any health care setting.
Benefits
- Protected time to test and implement an innovative improvement in a service
- Opportunities to connect with other project teams and to strengthen existing networks or develop new networks
- Opportunities to be seen as innovators in health care improvement and to showcase work to a variety of key stakeholders
- Tailored on-site support and access to quality improvement experts
- Support for a local/final ‘showcase’ event to present impact and learning to other projects, to the Health Foundation and other key stakeholders in the UK
- Opportunities to inform the Health Foundation’s agenda for influencing policy and practice nationally and internationally.
Eligibility Criteria
Any health or health and social care provider organisation in the UK where NHS services are delivered free at the point of delivery are eligible to apply for the program.
How to Apply
- Application Procedure consists of two stages
- Screening tool
- Application form
- Applicants first have to complete the screening tool test and then the application form will be available for downloading.
For more information, please visit Innovating for Improvement.
