New Funding Opportunities with the SDO programme
News release from NETSCC, SDO
4 November 2009
Two calls for proposals were launched by the NIHR SDO programme last week. The first call is for scoping studies in Emergency Planning in Health Care (09/1005). While a great deal of inter-agency work has been undertaken in preparing emergency plans across the public sector, there has been little research into the effectiveness of these arrangements and their implications for maintaining and sustaining health services during times of emergency. This call is aimed at filling acknowledged gaps in the research about emergency planning in health. The SDO programme wishes to commission a scoping study which should include:
- A literature review of existing research
- Identification of emergency planning research within health and non-health sectors within the UK and other countries (where relevant)
- Highlighting gaps in the existing evidence base
- Engaging with relevant stakeholders to identify issues of practice and policy relevance and where further evidence is needed
- Ensuring the review is relevant to the current UK context
- Recommending themes for further research.
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The NHS is facing severe funding constraints following years of substantial resource growth, which provides an enormous challenge to health care organisations. In responding to these issues, the programme has launched its second call looking into the NHS responses to financial pressures (09/1006). The scale of this problem is worsened by increasing demand, due to an ageing population with higher incidence of chronic disease, technological advances and rising costs. The SDO programme wishes to commission primary research that can report quickly, and provide useful and timely results. The programme is particularly interested in proposals for research into the following broad headings:
- Variations in clinical practice including disinvestment and more effective use of interventions
- Use of the NHS workforce
- Service reconfiguration and redesign
- Financial management in the NHS
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Applicants are asked to submit outline proposals for the above calls by 1pm on Wednesday 23 December 2009. Please note that applications received after this deadline will not be considered. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their outline application by end of March 2010.
