Funding for improvement projects We learn what works to make people’s lives healthier and improve the health care system by giving grants to those working at the front line
As the second largest endowed foundation in the UK focusing on health, we spend around £30m a year improving health and health care.
Find out more about our funding opportunities for improvement projects below – or browse all our improvement projects by topic.
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The Q community
Q connects people with improvement expertise across the UK and Ireland, led by the Health Foundation...
Recent funding opportunities
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Adopting Innovation
A programme supporting health care providers to create the conditions that will enable faster and...
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Common Ambition
A programme for partnerships developing collaborative communities where people, families, health...
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Increasing Continuity of Care in General Practice
This programme ran from 2019 to 2021 and offered five GP practices and federations up to £250,000 to...
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Test and Learn grant funding for Health Anchors Learning Network (HALN) participants
Test and Learn grant funding is being provided to six NHS anchor institutions who are participants...
A-Z of previous funding opportunities
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Clinical Human Factors Group
This group aims to enhance patient safety by combining human factors with an approach to change...
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Closing the Gap in Patient Safety
This programme ran from 2014 to 2017, and offered funding for projects to implement and evaluate...
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Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships
This programme ran in 2011/13 and offered £400,000 to seven teams working on projects that aimed to...
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Closing the Gap through Clinical Communities
This programme supported 11 projects from across the UK that worked to improve the quality and...
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Co-creating Health
This programme ran between 2007 and 2012 and involved eight projects that aimed to embed...
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Developing Patient Safety in Primary Care
This programme worked to build expertise, experience and knowledge about patient safety in general...
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Engaging with Quality in Primary Care
This programme ran between 2007 and 2011, and offered funding for nine projects aiming to help...
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Exploring Social Franchising
A programme to explore the use of social franchising techniques to help spread and scale health and...
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Flow Cost Quality
This programme started in 2010 and looked at the emerging relationship between poorly managed...
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Hospital Pathways
Five trusts took part in this programme during 2010/11. It aimed to achieve a breakthrough in...
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Improving the Primary Care Response to Domestic Violence
This programme ran for two years from 2010. It funded work to ensure that women experiencing...
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Increasing Continuity of Care in General Practice
This programme ran from 2019 to 2021 and offered five GP practices and federations up to £250,000 to...
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Innovating for Improvement
This programme supports up to 23 projects with up to £75,000 to test and develop innovative ideas...
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Innovation to Improve Outpatient Clinic Efficiency
This project by a team at Royal Bolton Hospital ran from 2010 to 2011. It aimed find out where in...
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MAGIC: Shared decision making
This programme ran in two phases, from 2010 to 2013, at sites across Newcastle and Cardiff. It...
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Patient and Family-centred Care
This programme, in partnership with The King's Fund, worked with 11 organisations to bring about...
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Policy Challenge Fund
This programme offered £450,000 to six projects during 2016. The projects aimed to generate insight...
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Realising the Value
This programme involved working with five local sites and wider networks of interest to develop and...
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Safer Clinical Systems
A programme that ran in two phases from 2008 to 2013. It helped health care teams to proactively...
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Safer Patients Initiative
This programme ran from 2004 to 2008 and 24 hospitals took part. It was the first major improvement...
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Scaling Up Improvement
This programme offers £500,000 funding to supports teams to take successful interventions or...
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Safety Measurement and Monitoring
This £1.8 million programme began in December 2014. It involved four regional improvement bodies...
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Shared Purpose
This programme ran from 2012 to 2015 and supported nine teams with funding of £420,000 each to...
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Shine 2010
This programme ran from 2010 to 2011 and awarded 18 teams with up to £75,000 for projects aimed at...
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Shine 2011
This programme ran from 2011 to 2012 and awarded 14 teams with up to £75,000 for projects to find...
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Shine 2012
This programme ran from 2012 to 2013 and awarded 30 teams with up to £75,000 for projects to...
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Shine 2014
This programme ran from 2014 to 2015 and awarded 23 teams with up to £75,000 for projects to...
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Spreading Improvement
This programme offers £1.5 million funding for approximately 15 projects a year. It aims to generate...
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Spreading Self Management Support
This programme supported four health economies from 2013 to 2015 to find out how to effectively...
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Stroke 90:10
This was a two-year improvement collaborative involving 26 hospitals in the north west of England....
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Supporting networks to improve quality in health care
This programme supported 30 established and emerging networks in their work to improve the quality...
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Working with strategic health authorities
This programme created partnerships with four strategic health authorities to improve patient safety...
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Year of Care
This programme ran between 2007 and 2012 at three pilot sites. It funded projects to improve the...
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