Diabetes Innovation and Improvement Fund
Overview
The purpose of the fund is to encourage innovators and early adopters to test ideas and changes in a way which can benefit the whole community. It will be one vehicle for intentionally learning about partnership working and about other enablers of change. It should send out a strong signal that the framework is not static but is dynamic and open to change.
Whilst the overall aim is to support implementation of the framework, the specific objectives are:
- to give traction to innovators and early adopters across the diabetes community
- to help embed habits of improvement and
- to establish collaboration and sharing learning as a community norm.
The total funding available under the IIF in 2017/18 was £60,000.
The award is intended to encourage innovation, early adoption and the scale and spread of what works. It is therefore envisaged that the award would be used to support the development and/or testing of an innovation or an improvement idea or to support the scale and spread of good practice.
Individual awards of £1,000-£2,000 will be made to successful applicants, however, awards up to £5,000 may be made on an exceptional basis.
Funding Criteria
The basis for assessing award applications will consist of the following:
a. Evidence of partnership:
- What difference do you expect to make for people living with diabetes?
- What do people living with Diabetes think about your proposal?
- How have they been involved to date?
- How will they contribute in future?
b. Evidence of teamwork:
- Who else is involved in this work?
c. Evidence of a learning system:
- Have you ongoing arrangements to share what you learn outside your immediate team / setting / organisation?
- Have you thought about how this work could be translated to other settings if it proves successful?