Deadline: 2-Jun-23
The Transport Accident Commission has launched the Value-based Healthcare Innovation Grant Program, that facilitate rehabilitation and recovery after a transport accident to help clients’ get their life back on track.
Aim
The grant program aims to incentivise health service providers to implement innovative projects that embrace the principles of VBHC. They are looking for projects that address an area of priority for people with transport accident injuries and will build capability in developing integrated care pathways, using risk screening and outcomes data to inform clinical decisions and improve care, and measure the efficiency of care.
Funding Information
- This grant program offers grants of up to $150,000 (ex. GST).
Eligible Funding
- Funding will be prioritised for small-scale projects that align with helping TAC clients get their life back on track. You are invited to submit an application for projects that:
- Address at least two of the principles of VBHC Highly desirable. Projects targeting the effectiveness and efficiency of care.
- Demonstrate innovation in health care; the project creates a new or significantly changes an existing method, process or service
- Focus on a topic of importance to TAC clients with traumatic physical and/or mental health injuries
- Use existing evidence, outcomes data sets, codesign and information technology platforms to improve care pathways and better integrate care
- Shadow test and validate alternative commercial fee models such as bundled payments
- Consider social determinants of health such as the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse populations, or people living in rural or remote areas
- Can be measured, evaluated and incorporate global health measures such as the EQ-5D4
- Applications to fund the project in part and in full will be accepted.
- Successful applicants must comply with relevant legislation and professional standards to ensure
- the research is ethical, conducted with integrity and scientifically sound.
Ineligible Funding
- Projects that won’t be funded include:
- Projects requesting access to and use of TAC data
- Interstate projects that do not involve a Victorian health service related provider
- Projects that have already taken place
- Secondary research of any kind
- One-off events such as workshops, expos and conferences
- Professional development of staff, including training
- General fundraising projects
- Projects that are more appropriately funded through existing operational budgets
Eligibility Criteria
- To be eligible for funding you must be Victorian based, financially viable and one of the following health service related provider groups:
- Hospitals – includes pre-hospital clinics and surgeons
- Rehabilitation services – includes inpatient and outpatient services
- Post-hospital services – includes early discharge and post-acute care type services
- Primary health care services – includes General Practitioners, Primary Health Networks and community based Allied Health services
- Pain management service providers
- Disability service providers
- Peak Bodies
- Professional Societies
- Applicants must nominate a Chief Investigator who will be responsible for submitting the application, conducting the project, and reporting as required under the Funding Agreement.
- The TAC will accept multiple applications from a single organisation, however each application must nominate a different Chief Investigator to lead each project and the projects must be inherently different.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Applications may also be considered ineligible if the following requirements are breached:
- It is incomplete or fails to answer all questions
- Duplicates previous research or current research in-progress
- A person is nominated as Chief Investigator on more than one application
- Not submitted by the designated closing date and time
- Not submitted on the SmartyGrants platform
For more information, visit Transport Accident Commission.