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Shine 2012

In brief

Shine 2012: turn your good ideas into good practice

This is your opportunity to test your innovative ideas for improving the quality of healthcare locally and gather evidence about its impact and effectiveness.

Our annual Shine programme focuses on aspects of healthcare quality that reflect the key issues the UK health service faces. This year the challenge is to find new approaches to delivering healthcare that aim to achieve one of the following:

  • supporting patients to be active partners in their own care
  • improving patient safety
  • improving quality while reducing costs.

All projects need to identify the costs and benefits of the intervention.

The maximum award for each project is £75,000.

Up to 18 projects will be selected and each project will run over 15 months, including three months' set up and a 12 month implementation period. Projects will be in operation by the beginning of 2013 and each project will present results at an end-of-programme conference to be held in the first quarter of 2014.

Shine is open to applications from healthcare teams based in any of the four countries of the UK, and NHS, private and voluntary sector organisations are equally invited to apply.

Each project will be allocated a named support consultant who will develop a clear understanding of the project. The Health Foundation has appointed Springfield Consultancy as the support provider for this programme. They are a team of service improvement consultants, facilitators and project managers with wide experience across a range of health and social care organisations.

Comments
John Kapp 01 May 2012
I would like to contribute on behalf of my company Social Enterprise Complementary Therapy Company SECTCo see www.sectco.org.
We hope to contract with our CCG when they open the market (probably 1.4.13) for NICE-recommended complementary treatments which are clinically appropriate to 2 in 3 patients in primary care, namely for depression (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) 8 week course, and for low back pain - spinal manipulation, acupuncture and Alexander Technique. We see a big market for these drug-free treatments, as the waiting time on the NHS in Sussex is thousands of years. We offer these on GP prescription and Occupational Health for public sector staff, by means of a voucher, cashable in about 100 CAM centres in Brighton and Hove. I hope that you will support us in a pilot project in Brighton and Hove.
Yours John Kapp
Jacqui Lovell 02 May 2012
our organisation was one of the first Dept of Health funded social enterprises to be set up in the UK in 2007 and we are still going strong. We are led and run by people with mental health needs and experiences working in partnership with diverse people who have experienced social exclusion (in all its various forms) and we would be keen to submit for this funding if only to demonstrate that peer to peer support is the best form of support that there is for people like us!
Vivienne Little, Programme Officer 02 May 2012
We would be very interested to receive innovative projects in these fields. Please use the tab "open for application" to find out how to apply.
Rebecca Turbitt OT Beyond Boundaries 10 May 2012
I am a fellow of the Eastern Enterprise hub and currently running a business with strong social aims. I am to build networks and partnership with other organisations consortium's, providers.

My business is Occupational Therapy; I offer one to one assessments and interventions to people aged 0-105 yrs in their home, community or work place as well as bespoke training courses and groups for clients, families, carers, companies. I also have professionals and craftspeople who support with specific interventions.





Emma Whapples 11 May 2012
I am in the planning stages of an evaluative research project to commence 2012/13 which is focusing on long term health effects of women who have experienced a vaginal birth. I am a Midwife and Midwifery Lecturer interested in perineal trauma and the consequences of this on women's health. The focus will be on pain on passing urine, incontinence, pain during intercourse, pain in that area and psychological effects.
Vivienne Little 14 May 2012
We are pleased to learn of the wide interest that Shine has generated. Please use the "open to applications" tab to find pursue an application.
Philip Haylett 17 May 2012
What I need to say first is that my own mental health would not be as good as it is if I did not see exercise is a good way of keeping well.
I work as a community psychiatric nurse. And my way of being in supporting people is be asking what kind of exercise do they do or would like to do.
I have been fortunate in supporting people improve their own physical health by using exercise to improve their mental health well being.
My goal is to make as much folk see the benefit of exercise. This can be eg: hoovering,washing up,ironing,walking, jogging,hillwalking or what ever they choose themselves.
Angela Perrett 21 May 2012
Can an organisation submit one than one application?
Vivienne Little 22 May 2012
Yes it is quite acceptable for an organisation to submit more than one application.
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