Funding
ENRICHEnabling Research in Care Homes
“The Health Foundation has launched an exciting new £2m programme which will explore the potential for using technology to enable new approaches to care at home and in the community.
New approaches to care are needed, and so our aim is to get promising new ideas off the ground. We will support teams to develop, test and pilot care that focuses on the caring and enabling relationships needed between those who deliver and those who receive care, and that is proactive in supporting people to live a better and more independent life where possible.
We are offering up to £30,000 funding and practical support for care providers to develop their ideas, with the most promising ideas progressing to testing and piloting.
We welcome applications from organisations across the UK that are responsible for delivering care at home, in a residential setting or in the community.
The programme is open for applications and will close at 17.00 on 29 June 2023.”
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“The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research Programme (PRP) invites applications for a multi-phased research project. The project will aim to gain insight into how improvement happens in the social care sector and the impacts and outcomes from the national core improvement offer support provided to local authorities.
The multi-phased research project will consist of:
- a development phase which will focus on scoping, assessing the feasibility of and recommending possible approaches for evaluation;
- a main phase study which will take forward the evaluation approach identified during the development phase.
Funding is available for both phases of the research project. At this stage, we anticipate commissioning a development phase study (costing up to £200,000), that will inform a subsequent main study costing between £200,000 – £350,000. Given the complexity of the requirement, we may be able to increase the research budget, where applicants are able to demonstrate this is required.
For more information, please consult the Research Specification, the Stage 1 Guidance for Applicants or standard information for applicants linked.
The submission deadline for the application is 1pm, 11 July 2023.”
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The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Policy Research Programme (PRP) invites applications for a single research project that will evaluate the Better Care Fund (BCF). The study presents an opportunity to directly inform national policy and local service delivery across an important area of the health and care system in England, with a specific focus on assessing how integration is supporting person-centred care, sustainability and better outcomes for people and carers.
For more information, please consult the Research Specification, the Stage 1 Guidance for Applicants or standard information for applicants linked.
The submission deadline for the application is 1pm, 11 July 2023.
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About the Project
“Nursing home residents are more than 1.4 times greater at risk of emergency admission and have more than 50% more unplanned hospital admissions compared to the general population aged >75 years. Unplanned hospital admissions cost the UK NHS >£11 billion, US healthcare economy >$1.1 trillion/year and account for more than a third of admissions each year. Evidence suggests that many nursing home residents’ hospitalisations can be avoided through rapid detection and timelier treatment.
Decision support tools, which provide a systematic approach to monitoring non-specific cognitive and behavioural changes, provide an opportunity to improve early and consistent detection to infection detection, prompt action and treatment, thus minimising transmission, reducing antibiotic prescribing, emergency hospital admissions, and distress experienced by nursing home residents when moved to an unfamiliar environment.
Robust tools are used in acute care settings for early identification of deterioration but are not commonly developed for use in residential care or always suitable for use by those providing care in this setting i.e., care workers.
Designed for completion by Swedish care workers, who have the most direct contact with residents and tend to be the first people to identify change in psychological and or cognitive behaviour , the Early Detection of Infection Scale is a brief tool that includes assessment of body temperature, using a new approach based on difference from baseline, the so-called ‘DiffTemp’ instead of pre-decided values for fever i.e. >38°C, offering a more targeted approach focusing on specific aspects of behaviour and functional status.
Early reports of using the Early Detection of Infection Scale in practice are positive, with users reporting high levels of acceptability. However, as the Early Detection of Infection Scale is still undergoing ongoing development, it is yet to be to be widely adopted in Sweden.
Given ensuring quality and cost-effectiveness is an increasingly essential requirement of service delivery, development and field-testing of an English version of the Early Detection of Infection Scale for use by nurses and care workers in nursing/care homes in the UK and other countries is urgently required.
Working in collaboration with stakeholders, an established patient public involvement group and wider international EDI group this studentship will develop an English version of the Early Detection of Infection Scale (EDIS) for nurses and care workers to use with nursing home residents. Initial feasibility and acceptability in Scotland will be explored, providing preliminary estimates on hospital admissions, infection rates, antibiotic prescribing, mortality, care processes and needs, staff knowledge, and confidence in infection detection.
You will work alongside researchers from the Department of Nursing and Midwifery, at UHI. Your Director of Studies will be Nicola Carey, Professor of Health Services Research (Head of Department) and your second supervisor Dr Michelle Beattie (Senior Lecturer). You will be supported by a third supervisor, Dr Megan Dickson (Lecturer).
This project will involve mixed methods research and also working closely with stakeholders across the Highlands and Scotland.
We are looking for a student who feels passionately about conducting research with older adults, with excellent communication skills, experience in quantitative and qualitative research methodologies who is interested in older people and developing research in nursing homes.
Applicants should normally have:
- A postgraduate Master’s degree from a degree-awarding body recognised by the UK government, or equivalent, or
- A first or upper second-class honours degree from a degree awarding body recognised by the UK government, or equivalent, or
- Other qualifications or experience that affords sufficient evidence of an applicant’s ability to work at the academic level associated with doctoral study.
- Good communication skills
- Experience in quantitative and qualitative research
- Interest in research in older people
The start date of this project is: 2 October 2023″
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23/47 Adult Social Care Needs Assessment
This is a call for research to evaluate the effectiveness, implementation, and impact of social care needs assessment in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The Programme wants to fund research which will support improvements in timely, appropriate, holistic, and transparent social care needs assessments, which in turn will lead to improved support for those needing social care services. The Programme is, therefore, interested in receiving applications for cross-UK studies including natural experiments, aiming to produce generalisable and actionable findings. The main aim of this call is to deliver an evaluation of implementation, variation of practice and experiences of social care needs assessments.
Closes: 13:00 on 20 September 2023
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“The NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme funds research to produce evidence to impact on the quality, accessibility and organisation of health and social care services. This includes evaluations of how the NHS and social care might improve delivery of services. The audience for this research is the public, service users, clinicians, professionals and managers.
The HSDR Programme aims to produce rigorous and relevant evidence on the quality, access and organisation of health and social care services, including costs and outcomes. The programme will enhance the strategic focus on research that matters to the NHS including research on implementation and a range of knowledge mobilisation initiatives.”
Deadline for proposals: 26 July 2023
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“The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme is accepting Stage 1 applications to their commissioned workstream for this primary research topic.
In order to apply you will need to carefully review the:
Applications received by the advertised closing date will be considered at a first-stage funding committee meeting, and successful applicants will then be invited to submit a Stage 2 application. Applicants will have 8 weeks to complete and submit their Stage 2 application form, which will then be considered at the following HTA funding committee meeting. For more information, please read the commissioning brief.
All primary research projects are expected to establish a programme appointed Study Steering Committee and it is important that you read the Research Governance Guidance before completing your application. Costs incurred by this committee should be included in the budget as appropriate.
Studies within a trial or review
This funding opportunity is eligible for a SWAT/SWAR (study within a trial or study within a review), which can help significantly improve methodology of future research as well as the host study. Find out about the benefits of SWATs/SWARs and how to include one in your application.
Australian National Health and Medical Research Council collaborations
The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is considering its next round of joint funding with the NIHR, and may include this funding opportunity. If so, the NHMRC will invest a total of up to $3 million AUD to cover the Australian component of all research projects selected for funding, under all the calls it is supporting.
NHMRC will provide funding for the Australian-based Chief Investigator, in accordance with the standard NHMRC funding agreement and the NHMRC-NIHR Collaborative Research Grant Scheme guidelines. Please refer to the NHMRC website for more information. UK-only applications are also welcome.”
Opens 23 March 2023 – closes 13:00 on 29 November 2023
Contact:
- For help with your application contact htafunding@nihr.ac.uk
- For more information about the funding Programme, visit the HTA Page
“The Health Technology Assessment Programme is accepting straight-to-stage 2 applications to their commissioned workstream, for this primary research topic.
In order to apply you will need to carefully review the:
Applications received by the advertised closing date will be considered at a single-stage funding committee meeting. For more information, please read the commissioning brief.
All primary research projects are expected to establish a programme appointed Study Steering Committee and it is important that you read the Research Governance Guidance before completing your application. Costs incurred by this committee should be included in the budget as appropriate.
Webinar
The NIHR will be holding a webinar to discuss this call on 2 February 2023, 10.30 – 11.30am. The webinar will be followed by virtual clinics from 11.45am – 2pm. This will provide an opportunity for potential applicants to discuss their proposed research with the NIHR team and RDS colleagues. Applicants may register to attend just the webinar by emailing their name and institution to htaresearchers@nihr.ac.uk, however, if you would like to also join a clinic, please email in a 1 page PICO summary of your proposed project to htaresearchers@nihr.ac.uk before 20 January 2023.
As places are limited, we will then review the submissions and confirm whether you have a place. The intention is for the one-page summary to provide a basis for discussion at the clinic. Please note that there is no guarantee of funding by attending a clinic; the purpose of the clinics is to offer assistance, and advice to potential applicants.”
“The Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme invites applications for palliative and end of life care research which supports health and care services to help people at the end of their lives to live as well as possible and to die with dignity, compassion and comfort.
The HSDR Programme welcomes research proposals in any disease, service or setting, including (but not limited to) hospitals, specialist centres and services, community services, home and care homes.
In addition to the specific areas noted in the commissioning brief, research proposals should address inequalities in access and experience of care and services, including intersectional differences and disadvantage. To build capacity and address geographical and other disparities in research funding and activity, we welcome partnerships between research active institutions and others less active to date, and located in geographical areas of deprivation and/or high care need.
Other NIHR funding programmes are involved in this call (HTA; EME; PHR) and, given its scope, we welcome applications that span the remit of one or more of the participating research programmes, and which comprise of co-ordinated teams of investigators spanning different specialties/disciplines.
In order to apply you will need to carefully review the:
Timescales
This is a two-stage call. Any changes to these dates will be emailed to all Lead Applicants with an application in progress.
- Stage one deadline: 1pm on 26 April 2023
- Notification of out of remit/non-competitive decision if unsuccessful: early July 2023
- Notification of stage one shortlisting decision: early August 2023
- Stage two writing window: early August 2023 – early October 2023
- Notification of stage two funding decision: late December/early January 2024
- Start date for funded studies: 1 May/June 2024″
“Senior Research Fellowship
Senior Research Fellowships are designed to retain excellent clinical and non-clinical researchers who have a track record of nationally competitive research, and clear plans to manage their own independent research group and become internationally recognised within the field of biomedical dementia research.
Grant amount: Up to £420,000
Grant deadline: 25 January 2023
The Major project grant scheme provides funds for intermediate to large scale research projects.
Grant deadline: 25 January 2023
Early Career Researcher Bridge Fund
This scheme aims to enable the retention of early career researchers in dementia research or to address particular pinch points in their career path.
Grant amount: Up to £30,000
Grant deadline: 18 November 2022″
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