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Shine 2011

In brief

Each year our Shine programme focuses on a different aspect of healthcare quality that reflects a key issue facing the UK health service.

The 2011 Shine challenge is to find new approaches to delivering healthcare that reduce the need for acute hospital care while improving quality and saving money.

There are many situations where care does not need to be provided in a hospital or inpatient setting; when the experience for service users and carers could be improved by providing care closer to home, or at home, and at lower cost.

Implementing such new ways of working requires innovative thinking, testing on a small scale and evidence of impact and effectiveness.

Through the Shine programme we will invest up to £75,000 in up to 18 innovative, forward-thinking projects.

Over 12 months, the teams will be expected to develop and test their approach, put it into practice and gather evidence about its impact and effectiveness.

The Shine 2011 teams were selected in December 2010 and started their projects by March 2011. Further information on the projects and teams can be found in the projects section.

Comments
Jacqui Lovell 02 May 2012
Projects related to mental health seem to be a bit thin on the ground in the 2010 and 2011 rounds of SHINE given the costs to the NHS of mental distress?
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Vivienne Little, Programme Officer 04 May 2012
The Health Foundation does not target any particular medical area in awards schemes but judges each application for its fit with the aims of the scheme and its quality as compared with other applications.

We have supported mental health projects in our Engaging with Quality Initiative,Engaging with Quality in Primary Care, Closing the Gap through Clinical Communities and Closing the Gap through Changing Relationships award schemes.
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