Deadline: 31-Aug-22
The Salford Integrated Care Partnership is pleased to announce the launching of the Salford Innovation & Improvement Fund 2022-23 with a total fund value of £500,000.
Priorities Areas
Applications are sought for new Innovation trials and Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives which align to the following Salford Locality priorities for this years Salford Innovation and Improvement Fund:
- Neighborhood based care: Initiatives focused on care delivered within communities. For example, primary care / PCNs, community services, district nursing, AHP/ pharmacy and dental etc. They have particular interest in projects supporting system recovery from covid, addressing backlogs and ‘hidden cases’ emerging after covid, improving PCN working and improving patient / service user access.
- Safer Salford Care Homes and Domiciliary Care: Initiatives focused on quality and safety across the care sector, in particular addressing challenges such as: nutrition & hydration, medicines safety, falls, pressure ulcers, dementia, communication, quality of life.
- Workforce Transformation: Initiatives focused on developing the workforce to support integrated health and care pathways. This may include for example new or blended roles, cross system working around a theme or challenging issue, system leadership, education/training and career pathways.
- Sexual Health: Initiatives focused on improving access to contraception, improving education, awareness and uptake of contraceptives (especially long-acting methods), and addressing social and cultural barriers to using contraceptives.
- Frailty and Ageing: Initiatives addressing the challenges and outcomes of frailty, and supporting aging well in Salford.
- Screening: Improving uptake and awareness for all forms of health screening, eg cancer, health checks, lung checks etc
- Tackling vaccine / immunization hesitancy: Initiatives to address known barriers and issues around hesitancy, ‘anti-vaccination’ beliefs and misinformation for any and all vaccines and immunizations.
Funding Information
The Salford Innovation & Improvement Fund 2022-23 with a total fund value of £500,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations
- Funding can only be paid to registered organisations, not to individuals.
- Funding is open to a range of organizations, for example (not limited to):
- NHS organizations
- Health and Social Care providers
- Academic institutions
- Local Authorities
- Commercial (Industry, SMEs, Start-ups etc)
- 3rd Sector, Nonprofit and Community Interest
- Joint / partnership applications between organizations are especially welcome, as they recognize the benefits to innovation of bringing together diverse expertise and specialisms.
- Organizations with existing Salford CCG Innovation Fund awards (as the Fund was previously known) are welcome to submit further applications for funding new projects, providing that they are compliant with the reporting schedules and Terms and Conditions of their current award/s.
- Organizations will not be eligible to apply for further funding if they are currently in breach of compliance for any existing Salford Innovation Fund award/so for large organisations, they will consider bids submitted by different departments or divisions to the one/s in breach, with sufficient assurance of distinct accountability and oversight
- Although project activity under the fund must be ring-fenced to benefit Salford residents, they are open to applicants from any location. It should be noted that applications submitted from Salford organization will be of particular interest.
For more information, visit https://www.salfordcvs.co.uk/salford-integrated-care-partnership-2022-23-innovation-improvement-fund
