Deadline: 17 May 2017
Do you have a health care intervention or approach that has been proven to deliver better care? Are you ready to deliver your intervention or approach at scale?
The Health Foundation is currently seeking applications for its Scaling Up Improvement program to support teams to take successful health care interventions or approaches and deliver them at scale, to improve health care in the UK.
The program will support up to seven projects that aim to scale and spread tested interventions or approaches to improve the delivery of healthcare services. Projects must be able to make improvements at scale at care pathway, health board, clinical network, organisational, regional or national levels. Your project should result in direct impact on patient outcomes within the timescale of the programme.
Objectives
The aims of this programme are to:
- Support demonstrable improvements in quality of care
- Scale up proven interventions or approaches
- Develop relationships between teams and national spread partners to support sustainability
- Build capacity and capability for learning of how to improve quality of care
- Contribute to the evidence base through robust measurement of improvement and evidence through independent evaluations.
Types of Projects
This programme is specifically concerned with projects that:
- equip health care providers to improve the quality of care, by making improvements in services
- equip people to manage their conditions and health care more effectively
- will lead to direct benefits for patients within the programme timescale.
- This programme will not support projects targeted at:
- health promotion, screening and preventative activities (e.g. prevention of injury or illness)
- research into the causes and treatment of illnesses
- development of new or existing treatments, drugs or medical devices
- development of technical interventions such as (but not limited to) surgical techniques and procedures.
Program Benefits
- Funding of up to £500,000 for each of the successful projects.
- Protected time to implement an improvement project.
- Opportunities to tap into improvement expertise and tailored coaching support.
- Opportunities to deepen knowledge about evaluation of improvement interventions and the process of adoption and spread.
- Opportunities to connect with other project teams, to strengthen existing networks and develop new networks.
- Opportunities to be seen as leaders in health care improvement and to showcase work to a variety of key stakeholders.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are welcomed from any health care or health and social care provider organisation in the UK where NHS services are delivered free at the point of delivery.
- Applications are also welcomed from organisations with ability to reach and engage health care audiences and capacity to promote, spread and embed change across NHS through partnership working, such as clinical commissioning groups, health boards, patient safety collaboratives, royal colleges, academic health science networks, and voluntary sector organisations.
- Organisations will have to partner with one or more NHS provider organisations and ensure that improvement takes place within the provider organisation(s).
- To be eligible, applicants must ensure that:
- They demonstrate a clearly identified problem that you want to address that is a significant quality issue and widely relevant to UK health care.
- Their application provides sufficient evidence that the proposed intervention or approach has already been successfully tested and evaluated so it’s ready for adoption and spread. The evidence could come from robustly self-evaluated local improvement projects and / or published research.
- They include a clear description of the expected improvements, including how these will be delivered, assessed and measured. Applications will be expected to have a detailed measurement framework and plan in place.
- Their project team is able to commission an independent evaluation as part of the programme to further develop the evidence base and understanding of the intervention. Independent rigorous evaluation is an essential component of this programme.
- Applications come from teams with a strong track record in large scale change management, quality improvement, patient involvement, measurement and evaluation. Your project team should include a partner organisation that can support spread regionally or nationally.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must apply online via given website.
Eligible Country: UK
For more information, please visit Scaling Up Improvement.