FUNDING OPPORTUNITY - Co-producing Improvements in Experience of Care Within a System

BACKGROUND

The NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) sets out clear objectives for the building of quality improvement capacity and capability for staff delivering health and social are.

The CQC (2018) report ‘Quality Improvement in Hospital Trusts: the patient at the centre of QI sharpens the focus on delivering high-quality patient care and aligning improvement activity to outcomes and experience for patients. The report acknowledges that to deliver

this, patients must be involved and enabled as true and equal partners for QI.

In March 2021 a paper was submitted to the Innovation and Quality Committee at NHSE/I, documenting an independent evaluation which captured the innovations made during the pandemic. As a result, critical ingredients for change in implementing Covid-19 related beneficial changes and recovery were endorsed. The top ingredient being the co-production of quality improvements.

The Experience of Care Team can offer funding to up to 8 Integrated Care Boards (Systems) for work on a specific project that supports the development of system wide co-produced improvements in the experience of care. This would build on the approach taken previously with systems in 2019/20 and 2021/2. Learning will be identified and shared to support further co-produced improvements across systems.

The project will aim to demonstrate the impact of co-producing improvements with people in communities and to share the learning of rolling out the methodology across programmes within systems. We particularly welcome applications from systems who will be working with marginalised communities/communities whose voices are seldom heard and addressing health inequalities.

PROJECT REQUIREMENTS

1. Demonstrate a clear plan to develop and test genuine, or fully embedded co-production, with people with lived experience in one or more system-wide programmes that aims to improve the experience of care.

2. Show evidence of a specific leadership commitment to scale and spread co-production with people with lived experience across all relevant programmes.

3. Agree to be take part in evaluation using a mixed methods approach, including published case studies.

TIMESCALES

The commission will begin Mid-June 2022 and must be completed by 31st March 2023.

FUNDING

Up to 15k is available for this work. Exclusive of VAT this should include all costs, as well as any translation/interpretation services required to undertake the work. This should also include any travel and accommodation costs.

SUBMITTING EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

Please submit to the Experience of Care team at NHSE&I using :-england.eoccoproduction@nhs.net by 3rd June 2022 or email us if you would like more information.