The CCG's Innovation Fund has provided funding support for innovative new products, service and ways of working through its annual Innovation Calls since 2013. This year they have increased the scope of the fund, and are now also inviting applications for Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives.
A total of £500,000 is available, and the fund is now open to applications for new innovation trials and quality improvement projects which align to a range of priorities around the agenda of "building back better:
- Addressing Health Inequalities and Wider Determinants of Health
Interventions focusing on “closing the gaps” in health; in particular ageing, frailty and ethnicity and other inequalities exacerbated by the pandemic.
- Safety Improvement
Interventions to improve the safety of patients and residents, in particular: Community services; care homes; medicines safety; primary care; incident reporting and learning systems; reducing patient harms
- Emerging from Covid
Interventions addressing care access, screening, “deconditioning” and “hidden/delayed cases” presenting as we emerge from Covid. Also addressing the impact of the pandemic on population and health and social care staff health and wellbeing, especially mental health
- Supporting the National Immunisation Inequalities Strategy
Interventions to support the implementation of this PHE strategy, in particular exploring and addressing the causes of variation in vaccine uptake between different ethnicity groups, communities and wards in Salford.
- Sustain, spread and embed improvements in Primary Care
Building on the changes made, learning developed and opportunities arisen during the pandemic to “build back better”. This is an opportunity to further explore, scale up and embed those changes that have seen a positive impact. Examples may include: scaling up innovations and improvements made in one practice onto other practices or a PCN footprint; utilising our workforce differently; improving the access, demand and experience of digital systems and what to retain “post-covid”.
- Improving the environmental sustainability of care
Reducing the waste, inefficiencies and carbon footprint of care delivery and products.
Please note that the scale and scope of this year’s fund cannot support digital proposals which require significant software or systems investment.
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