Canada: Health Care Unburdened Grant Program ($10M in Grants)

Deadline: 12-Dec-23

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and MD Financial Management and Scotiabank are offering grants through the Health Care Unburdened Grant Program.

As proof of this commitment, Scotiabank, in collaboration with the CMA and MD, is investing $115 million over 10 years to support physicians and the communities they serve across Canada.

They’re looking forward to funding ideas that help with one or more of the following:

• Streamlining or reducing required documentation or administrative work
• Improving efficiencies to processes and practices
• Reimagining resourcing and teaming to reduce the administrative burden

Funding Information

• The Program will offer up to 15 grants (each a “Grant”), to a maximum of $10,000,000 total.
• Available funding per grant is between $500,000 and $1,000,000. The grant funding period will be two years.

Eligibility Criteria

• Program eligibility refers to requirements that an applicant must meet to be considered for the grant program. These requirements are designed to ensure that applicants align with the overall goals and purpose of the grant program.
• To qualify as an “Applicant” the application must be submitted on behalf of a nonprofit organization or registered charity in Canada.
• Eligible nonprofit institutions and/or organizations include the following:
  • Canadian post-secondary institutions, including medical schools
  • Community health centres
  • Health advocacy organizations
  • Health charities
  • Health professional associations, including provincial and territorial medical associations
  • Hospitals and healthcare clinics
  • Indigenous health organizations
  • Mental health and addiction organizations
  • Nonprofit health research organizations
  • Pan-Canadian or provincial/territorial health organizations
• To enable a team-based approach, the lead applicant must demonstrate that the project team responsible for the initiative includes a physician, resident, or medical student perspective, as well as at least one of the following roles/perspectives:
  • Patients/caregivers;
  • Health system administrators;
  • Health care leadership/decision-makers
  • Policymakers
  • Other health care providers, which may include nurses, allied health professionals,
  • mental health professionals, etc.
• To be eligible as a “Qualified Application,” initiatives must be:
  • innovations that have a primary focus of reducing administrative burden in health care,
  • must take a team-based approach and include a physician (registered in Canada) or
  • medical learner (registered at a Canadian medical school), as well as other stakeholders as part of the team,
  • submitted in either French or English.

Ineligible

• Lead organizations:
  • For-profit entities: For-profit entities, including for-profit health clinics and long-term care homes, are not eligible to apply as lead applicants for the grant program. For-profit entities can be listed as a team member but must not be the primary beneficiary of the grant funding.
  • International non-profit organizations: Non-profit organizations that are registered outside of Canada are not eligible to apply as lead applicants.
• Initiatives:
  • Biomedical or clinical research projects: Initiatives focused on conducting medical experiments, clinical trials, or laboratory-based research would not qualify.
  • One-off initiatives or products: The Health Care Unburdened Grant program is focused on creating sustained and measurable reductions in administrative burden over time. As a result, applications that focus on one-time events (ex. conferences), websites, or other ad-hoc initiatives are ineligible.

How your idea will be assessed?

• Your application will be evaluated based on the following:
  • the need for and feasibility of your idea
  • the impact your initiative could have
  • the sustainability and scalability of your idea
  • how collaborative and inclusive you were as a team

For more information, visit Canadian Medical Association.