Deadline: 25 July 2017
The Health Foundation is currently open for applications for its Insight 2017 programme inviting researchers to submit ideas for research that advances the development and use of data from national clinical audits and patient registries as a mechanism for improving health care quality in the UK.
The Health Foundation is exploring what a learning health care system might look like in the UK and wants to better understand the elements that could contribute to making one. The Foundation recognize that digitization and analysis of data and information play an important role in supporting health care systems to continuously learn and improve.
The call aims to fund research that either:
- broadens the involvement of patients in the design and collection of clinical audit and registry data, specifically the collection and use of patient reported outcomes
- demonstrates the value of linking clinical audit and registry data to other data, to improve the value of health care
- explores variation in metrics of clinical quality and outlier identification to determine priorities for improvement.
Funding Streams
- Small-scale awards – up to £100,000 to support innovative research that is particularly novel or conducted at a small scale, completed over 18 months. Projects eligible for funding under this stream include standalone research studies, and feasibility or pilot studies.
- Large-scale awards – between £300,000 and £400,000 for substantive studies across more than one site and/or location of innovative and ambitious research with the potential to support transformational change, completed over three years.
Priority areas
The Foundation identified three priority areas for this grant programme under the topic of using national clinical audits and patient registries to improve the quality of care in the UK. The three priority areas are:
- Engaging patients in outcome measurement: expanding patients’ involvement in the design and collection of clinical audit data, specifically the collection and use of patient reported outcomes. This theme focuses on a greater engagement of service users in the design and collection of patient reported outcomes as a tool to support clinical decision making and self-management, and as a mechanism for evaluating quality of care.
- Linking data: demonstrating the value of linked data to improve the value of health care. This theme will support work which links data on clinical effectiveness and outcome measures with datasets containing data reporting costs or other measures of efficiency and value. The aim of this theme is to demonstrate the benefit of data linkage to improve the value of patient care.
- Reducing variation: using national clinical audits and registries to explore variation in metrics of clinical quality to support priorities for improvement. This theme explores how national clinical audits and registries can be used to help service leaders, commissioners and policy makers better understand variations in quality of care across the system, and how they can make greater use of audit data and registry data in their decision-making and commissioning processes.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Insight research programme is an open award programme. Any organisation who can demonstrate the necessary skills and experience to carry out high quality research within the remit of the programme can submit a proposal.
- The lead applicant must be from a UK-based organisation. However, proposals which include collaborations with non-UK based researchers will be accepted, providing sufficient justification is given for the international collaboration.
- The national clinical audit (NCA) or patient registry that you are working with must also relate to health care services delivered in the UK.
How to apply
Applicants must complete an online research proposal application form available in the given website.
Eligible Country: United Kingdom
For more information please visit Insight Awards Research Programme.