2014/15 Innovation, Excellence and Strategic Development Awards

1. Fund
Year Started
Organisation Name
Name of Project
Summary
2014-15
2015-16
2016-17
IESD
2014
VoiceAbility Advocacy
Speak Out on-line - plugging the voices and views of people with Learning Disabilities into the heart of commissioning, planning and improvement.
Speak-Out On-Line (SPOOL) will provide a unique platform for people to engage with/consult us as people with learning disabilities (PWLD) over local/regional and national strategies, projects and services. We will work with clients to design accessible surveys for PWLD to complete on-line/by App, as well as the resources to help people work off-line and/or in groups. Responses can be uploaded, and commented on, in a variety of formats from any participant, enabling genuine engagement and dialogue. It will enable better, richer and quicker engagement with PWLD and greater opportunities for us to improve and commission health and social care services.
£155,220
£116,840
-
IESD
2014
National Gamete Donation Trust
Hub and Spoke National Sperm Bank
To provide support, information and advice to gamete donors and recipients, both potential and actual, on issues relating to infertility treatment involving the use of donated sperm, eggs and embryos. To liaise with clinics, professionals and professional bodies to encourage the recruitment and retention of sperm, egg and embryo donors. To work with the media and other relevant parties to raise public awareness of the shortage of sperm, egg and embryo donors in an effort to alleviate, and ultimately eradicate, that shortage. And to manage the voluntary contact register linking donors, people conceived by donation and their siblings, ensuring that the appropriate testing, support and advice is available.
£77,000
-
-
IESD
2014
Tommy's
Baby Be Smoke Free - a quit smoking service for young mums-to-be
Building on Tommy's Baby Be Smoke Free pilot (Hill, 2013), we will develop a stop smoking intervention that is a) targeted specifically at young pregnant women b) non-judgemental c) convenient and cost-effective d) sustainable. The current pathway for quitting smoking is not meeting the needs of this group evidenced by the low referral rates and the high rate of young women who smoke in their pregnancies (2012 IFS). Yet babies born to mothers aged under 20 are 60% more likely to die than children born to older mothers and have a 25% greater likelihood of being born too early or too small.
£115,985
£70,935
£59,868
Awards
INNOVATION, EXCELLENCE & SERVICE DEVELOPMENT (IESD) FUND - 2009/10 to 2013/14

2. IESD
2014
Donor Conception Network
Improving support for donor conceived children and their families by implementing a comprehensive business strategy for a small national charity
For the last 5 years the Donor Conception Network has relied, in part, on funding and grants to keep itself on a sound financial footing. This one year project will review the charity’s current business model and develop a new model to ensure the charity can be self sufficient in the future without any need for external funding. A change programme will improve and modernise all aspects of its offering; develop partnerships with professionals and institutions; create new ways of generating corporate support; improve ways our membership can contribute; and at the same time put the organisation’s business model onto a sustainable footing. The Donor Conception Network addresses the information and support needs of 30,000 donor conceived children and their families and is the only national support charity in this field. The recent Nuffield Bioethics Council report made it clear that there is a state obligation to ensure this essential work continues.
£63,000
-
-
IESD
2014
NAM Publications
Positive Partnership: improving the sustainability and impact of HIV information support
This project will develop greater partnership between NAM and England’s HIV clinical services, improving the sustainability, impact and personalisation of HIV information support across England. The ultimate beneficiaries will be 30,000 people with diagnosed HIV. The project will develop our current resource dissemination network into a membership scheme and: ensure clinical services can access Information Standard certified resources to support patients, and secure their long-term provision; increase the personalisation of HIV information resources; increase integration between clinical services and treatment information. NAM’s resources will: support patient adherence; facilitate doctor-patient dialogue; encourage self-management; reduce use of expensive inpatient and A&E services.
£68,000
£28,500
-
IESD
2014
Penny Brohn Cancer Care
The Wellness Package
PBCC’s Wellness Package is designed to help improve the lives of those affected by the consequences of cancer and its treatments. The Wellness Package offers an introductory ‘Living Well' course providing: healthy eating; gentle exercise; relaxation and stress management; emotional and psychological support; help managing impact on relationships – plus ‘Follow Up’ support over 12 months with a range of services. The Wellness Package directly responds to rigorous service evaluation results [9]. The Wellness Package offers: 60 Living Well courses, 12 months Follow Up services in 5 regions, (including deprived areas), reaching 720 participants, over 18 months.
£133,577
£55,281
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3. IESD
2014
Samaritans
Project title Samaritans Cruse Partnership - increasing support for those bereaved by suicide
This project addresses the Government’s Suicide Prevention Strategy objective to ‘better support those bereaved or affected by suicide’, increasing capacity for this vulnerable group. England suffered 4,509 suicides in 2011, each having a devastating effect on family and friends and a significant impact on their mental health. Following a successful pilot, Samaritans and Cruse, working with organisations locally, will use their expertise and complementary skills to offer tailored, facilitated support groups to improve the emotional health of those bereaved through suicide. Our evaluation shows this is achieved through the understanding, mutual support, and the safe, respectful environment the groups offer
£173,481
£170,098
£213,000
IESD
2014
Best Beginnings
From Bump to Breastfeeding: working together to improve health outcomes
From Bump to Breastfeeding: working together to improve health outcomesOur DH funded “From Bump to Breastfeeding” DVD (FBTB), endorsed by UNICEF and five Royal Colleges, is associated with increased breastfeeding rates and is in the DH/Start4Life/UNICEF breastfeeding care pathway. Yet last year, less than 10% of women in England received the DVD. Working collaboratively with health and social-care professionals, commissioners and parents in localities across NE, NW and Y&H regions, we will support the commissioning and embedding of bespoke versions of FBTB. This will result in increased breastfeeding rates, improve health outcomes and associated cost savings. This has potential for sustainable, national roll-out, ensuring more families benefit from this resource.
£121,940
£124,938
-
IESD
2014
Fit for Work Team, The
Bridging the Gap-Addressing the Health Barriers to Employability
Building on our experience of delivering the DWP/DH Fit For Work pilot, and as a specialist provider of holistic vocational rehabilitation, we will develop our model to provide a case managed , and thus integrated, multi-agency service, to enable unemployed people with health barriers to become work ready. Our three year programme will start with delivery in specific areas of the East Midlands and North West regions, expanding across those regions in year two. During this period we will build evidence and learning for year three which will focus on national roll-out through sharing our learning /building capacity with commissioners and building capacity and capability through third sector supply chain development.
£435,220
£517,856
£477,281

4. IESD
2014
West Mercia Rape & Sexual Abuse Support Centre
Rape Crisis Services
The project will support the development of responsive models of commissioning systems and processes for the victims of rape and sexual violence: • Providing specialised rape crisis services, advice, expertise and evidence to CCGs, local authorities and stakeholders• Promoting the voice of victims, exploring how personal budgets could be used to fund services• Evidencing the effectiveness of specialised rape crisis services, demonstrating the wider social impact• Exploring innovative funding modelsThe project will mean victims of rape and sexual violence nationally have better access to rape crisis services, with improved mental, physical and emotional health, wellbeing and quality of life.
£81,680
£82,495
£81,750
IESD
2014
Race Equality Foundation
Effectively tacking violence and improving the health and care outcomes for the most vulnerable children and young people through the provision of the evidence based Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities parent education programme in three regions across England.
The 2012 DH funded review on the impact of violence on health and care outcomes identified factors that increase risk for children and young people, and also began to identify the protective factors that lower risk. By scaling-up and deploying our evidenced-based Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities parenting programme (SFSC) that promotes the factors that lower the risk of children and young people experiencing violence, we will improve the health and care outcomes for vulnerable or disadvantaged children. We will work in Hull, Manchester and Walsall, reaching and impacting 297 parents and 624 children and young people.
£70,026
£70,552
£71,364
IESD
2014
Endometriosis UK
Endometriosis Patient Support Groups alligned to Specialised Endometriosis Centres
This project will recruit and train volunteers to work alongside the Specialised Endometriosis Centres set up under NHS England Specialised Commissioning activities to create patient support groups and networks. This will ensure that a continuum of care is provided something that is badly needed by women with endometriosis - a long-term serious gynaecological condition affecting around 1 in 10 pre-menopausal women for which there is no satisfactory cure. Surgical and medical treatments can provide some relief of symptoms but most women require long-term support to reach an equilibrium of self-management. Information and peer-to-peer support delivered locally can provide an integrated link with the clinical provision, supporting consultants and specialist nurses to deliver greater quality of care and reaching more women than the specialist clinic is able to cope with on their own. This support will also reduce the burden on the specialist clinic, on feeder general gynaecological departments, on GPs and on A&E services to whom women suffering debilitating symptoms associated with endometriosis often turn.
£63,686
£59,718
£65,403

5. IESD
2014
Care Leavers Association, The
Caring For Better Health
To improve the physical and mental health of care leavers of all ages by using the user voice to develop guides and resources to inform the commissioning and delivery of services. The aim is to ensure that CCGs and health professionals in a variety of contexts are more aware of the health issues facing care leavers and how to address them. This should lead to better services and better outcomes for the main beneficiaries, adult care leavers of all ages who come into contact with adult health services
£68,474
£65,851
£68,285
IESD
2014
Amateur Swimming Association, The
Dementia friendly swimming
The proposal is to establish a framework for delivering swimming in 3 strands- relaxation, energy and exercise to music- for those people with dementia and carers. This will be achieved by working with 2 local authorities in Year 1, 6 large authorities in Year 2 and then 100 dementia friendly pools in Year 3. In order to achieve this, the Amateur Swimming Association will work with a number of partner organisations. We plan to make the programme sustainable by working with our wide network of pool partners and by working closely with the Alzheimer's Society's dementia friendly communities. The proposal has been set up so as to be fully flexible. While the aim is establish 100 dementia friendly swimming pools in Year 3, the budget is fully flexible and can be scaled up or down according to funds available.
£319,149
£500,000
£500,000
IESD
2014
Community Catalysts CIC
A Shared Lives incubator to deliver high-quality personalised outcomes for many more people, supported by social investment
The Shared Lives (SL) scheme puts potential carers through rigorous recruitment, vetting and approval to work with people who need support to deliver successful outcomes and inclusion in their life, family and friendship networks. These SL arrangements are carefully monitored and supported by the scheme which is regulated by CQC. The small size of schemes and demand on the SLI points to a lack of business development skills and expertise to drive the sustainable development and growth of SL services (while maintaining quality and ethos) combined with a lack of up-front investment for schemes to grow. The project aims to ensure that the SLI becomes a means of establishing SL arrangements at scale.
£81,765
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-
IESD
2014
United Response
Cornwall Dementia Hub
An arts/activity-based, flexible and dynamic dementia support service located in central Falmouth (Cornwall), coupled with outreach early intervention dementia support. A café focus as a primary social ‘tool’ will bring people together whilst providing person centred activities to maximise independence and promote good health, whilst minimising the deteriorating effects of dementia. An independent evaluation will drive national learning, facilitating national dementia service development.
£52,907
£68,000
£34,000
IESD
2014
CAMHS Outcomes Research Consortium
Development of Outcomes- Focused Voluntary Sector Provision of Child Mental Health
To allow the organisation to provide additional regional support to enable voluntary sector providers to effectively collect and use outcome data; and for commissioners to make best use of this data to improve service provision for children and families. Consolidating and extending voluntary sector membership and extending the core team to include five regional improvement support officers based in five distinct geographic regions in order to enable voluntary sector members to become commissioning ready.
£465,365
£472,195
£482,243

6. IESD
2014
Cancer Research UK
Oral Cancer Toolkit: A training tool to aid early detection and improved outcomes for oral cancers
Incidence rates of oral cancer have risen by a third in the last decade with 6500 cases diagnosed and 2000 deaths in 2010. Additionally, it is one of the few cancers that has a trend of increasing mortality. Outcome is greatly enhanced by early detection with prompt treatment improving two-year survival rates from less than 50 per cent at stage four to 90 per cent at stage one. This proposal aims to use the successful model of the GP Skin Cancer Toolkit developed 2011-14 under the innovation strand to create a similar toolkit for dentists and GPs covering oral cancer.
£87,153
£36,656
£16,664
IESD
2014
Centre for Mental Health
Making work work: Extending Individual Placement and Support across England
Will establish Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services in 6 partnership areas (NHS Mental Health Trust and/or Local Authority), in the South East, East Midlands and Yorkshire & Humber regions, achieving paid jobs for 340 service users over the three years. The project will firmly establish the service in the 6 areas and spread knowledge and support for IPS across England, promoting ongoing availability of supported employment for anyone with a severe and enduring mental health need who would like help to gain paid employment.
£392,090
£390,137
£401,917
IESD
2014
Older People's Advocacy Alliance
Older People's Cancer Voices
The organisation references DH and Macmillan evidence that states: “under-treatment of older people with cancer may be a substantial problem". The project will build relationships in 4 areas in England between CCGs and advocacy organisations supporting older people affected by cancer (OPABC). It will produce best practice guidance and cancer advocacy support standards, and involve local Compacts and Macmillan Cancer Support, enabling greater opportunities for OPABC to influence service delivery through Healthwatch and Health and Wellbeing Boards promoting equality of opportunity along the cancer pathway.
£90,607
£91,104
£92,159
IESD
2014
Royal National Institute of Blind People
EIRECS - Early Intervention and Rehabilitation in Eye Care Services
This project aims to ensure that every person experiencing sight loss benefits from early access to a nationally agreed eye care pathway, promoting independence, choice and control. Working with Rehabilitation Officers and Local Authorities, it will strengthen the workforce through training and learning networks to support integrated health and care provision. By creating a sustainable model to provide practical support, it will connect blind and partially sighted people to services and commissioners to improve health and care outcomes.
£71,504
£117,147
£83,085
IESD
2014
Action on Hearing Loss
Hear to Care - Improving long- term care and support for older people with hearing loss in care settings
To test out changes or improvements which can be made in mainstream longer term care settings to improve the diagnosis and management of hearing loss. The project will test out changes in differernt areas including procedures around assessment, identification and recording of hearing loss, staff training and management of hearing aids and ensuring hearing loss is identified and supported in care transitions, e.g., admission to acute care. It aims to improve the care and support provided to older people with hearing loss in care, reducing their loneliness and social isolation and improving their overall health and well- being.
£67,801
£63,575
£71,340

7. IESD
2014
Fair Shares Gloucestershire
Neighbourhood Support and Time Banking
To pilot the creation of neighbourhood support systems (neighbours looking out for neighbours), through small clusters of time banking, supporting older people and those with long term health conditions. Beneficiaries will be matched to a neighbourhood 'buddy' (or buddies) who will offer proactive help and 'keep an eye open' in addition to reactive assignments (particularly during winter). This will test this new model of support in the Forest of Dean, replicating across the county, then nationally, reaching at least 380 people and 15 communities.
£36,568
£46,067
£48,945
IESD
2014
Action for Blind People
Action Talking Therapy Network
The project will create and develop an emotional support and talking therapy network for blind and partially sighted people, their carers and families. Three key strands: i) offer a face to face counselling service combining expert staff and volunteer delivery; ii) provide all client- facing staff with 1st tier skills and appropriate tools, deliver a 2nd tier emotional support service complementary to the 3rd tier face to face counselling service; iii) equip mainstream providers of counselling with expertise in sight loss support issues via development and delivery of bespoke training resource.
£164,807
£168,601
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IESD
2014
British Institute of Human Rights, The
Care and Support: A Human Rights Approach to Advocacy
This project will build on the previously IESD-funded "Human Rights and Third Sector Health and Social Care" (innovation stream). Responding to the independent evaluation this next phase seeks to embed and sustain human rights advocacy within care by developing tailored (and nationally replicable) supports with third sector partner organisations. These will focus on helping to achieve better individual patient outcomes and broader organisational change.
£87,454
£94,469
£93,199
IESD
2014
SignHealth
Improving Deaf Patients' Experience and Access Through Telecommunications Technology
The project will use telecommunications to give 680 Deaf sign-language users a much- improved patient experience and equal access to health services. Deaf patients will use innovative technology through which they can access remote interpreters almost immediately for conversations between themselves and health-care professionals (where appropriate). The project will measure the improvement to patient experience, and evaluate cost savings for the NHS. Additional benefits will include reducing health inequalities, fewer wasted appointments, improved safety through reduced risk of medical error, improved compliance with Equality Act 2010, easier and more satisfactory consultations plus improved Long Term Conditions compliance
£220,256
£221,015
£221,540
IESD
2014
Hepatitis C Trust, The
South Asian Hepatitis C targeted awareness raising, testing and support program
Targeted awareness and testing events aimed at the South Asian community in mosques and other community centers, in partnership with community leaders and local health authorities. To encourage people to come forward for testing and reduce the incidence of liver disease in this group and reduce health inequality in access to services in the South Asian community.
£29,100
£32,050
£32,050
IESD
2014
Age Concern Support Services (Yorkshire & Humber)
Eatwell and Livewell
Local Age UKs will work with older people identified as having nutritional issues following a MUST (Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool) assessment either in hospital or primary care. Using an outcomes tool the project will work with the older person and their carers to address the issues impacting on their diet (e.g. isolation, access to groceries, financial issues).
£54,100
£56,450
£58,800

8. IESD
2014
3VA
Health & Wellbeing Visit
60 Fire & Rescue Service volunteers will provide support to over 2,500 households. These volunteers will visit people at home by arrangement, to talk about their health and wellbeing including mental & physical health, social isolation, nutrition, substance use, winter warmth, communication needs, general welfare needs and health & safety (including mobility, sight issues). The scheme makes prevention and early intervention possible for the most vulnerable people
£116,256
£101,022
£78,932
IESD
2014
British Institute of Human Rights, The
Delivering Compassionate Care: Connecting Human Rights to the Front Line
The project aims to improve outcomes for patients by supporting frontline staff to deliver mental health services that respect and protect human rights. Human Rights Champions will take part in a mapping exercise where areas are identifed for improvement within a service and ways in which human rights can help address this issue. BIHR and the Human Rights Champions will co-produce a resource on human rights and mental health that supports the delivery of a follow up training addressing key issues identified during the mapping exercise.
£73,585
£82,711
£82,384