Deadline: 2-Oct-20
The Health Foundation has launched a new programme aiming to fund exemplar projects that demonstrate how data analytics can be used to improve social care.
COVID-19 is having a profound impact on people needing and using care, and their careers. The analysis is urgently needed to help us understand the problems they are facing and the actions that need to be taken, ahead of a possible resurgence in the virus.
The Health Foundation has explored the key challenges the social care sector is facing in the COVID-19 era. Over the last few months, they have hosted workshops with people who use care services, careers, providers, care technology developers, local authorities, researchers, and membership bodies for providers and for front-line staff. Participants came from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, from domiciliary care and residential care, and included adults with a range of ages, needs and experiences.
Priority Areas
The Health Foundation workshops identified three key priorities:
- Improving the quality of social care for cohorts of people that experience the worst outcomes.
- Building a resilient, safe workforce.
- Understanding the lived experience of people needing social care.
Funding Information
- The Strengthening Social Care Analytics programme will support up to five teams across the UK with funding of up to £60,000 per project for up to 12 months.
Criteria
- They are inviting social care providers and commissioners, including local authorities, health boards in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, domiciliary care providers or residential/care, home providers, to apply for their Strengthening Social Care Analytics programme.
- Lead organizations can partner with another organization within the social care analytics ‘ecosystem’, for example? academic institutions,?umbrella membership organizations,?voluntary organizations,?care technology providers and another key? organizations?in the sector.
For more information, visit https://www.health.org.uk/funding-and-partnerships/programmes/strengthening-social-care-analytics