The Health Foundation has announced a new £2.1m programme for partnerships developing collaborative communities where people, families, health care professionals and researchers work together to improve health care.
The Common Ambition programme will support up to five ambitious teams across the UK to work towards a shared aim: to build sustainable change across health care through collaboration between those who use services and those who deliver them.
The programme is a major commitment to supporting people, families, health care professionals and researchers to work together to improve health care services. The programme will support partnerships that can facilitate this type of collaboration by harnessing skills and knowledge from the community and the health system.
The Health Foundation will be inviting partnerships between the voluntary and community sector and the NHS to apply for this exciting funding opportunity in February 2020.
The opportunity
Successful partnerships will receive funding of between £300,000 and £500,000 for two to three years.
Funding is available to collaborations between providers of NHS services and voluntary or community sector organisations, such as charities or social enterprises. It is also expected that partnerships will be able to capture learning, measure impact and create links with local systems. Working with organisations such as universities, clinical commissioning groups, academic health science networks and local authorities could, therefore, strengthen the partnerships.
The support isn’t just financial. The programme will provide successful teams with a bespoke package of support – which could include coaching, training, facilitation and learning events – worth between £30,000 and £50,000. This will help teams to learn and apply collaborative working approaches and design their partnerships to achieve clear measurable outcomes.
Partnership development events
Events are being held to offer advice on how to apply for the Common Ambition programme and to support potential applicants to connect with partner organisations are being held on:
- 27 February 2020 in Leeds
- 10 March 2020 in London
- 12 March 2020 webinar
The events are important opportunities to find out whether an idea fits with the aims of the Common Ambition programme and to improve the quality of an application.
For more information and to apply click here or email: [email protected]