£800,000 total funding available jointly from the Health Foundation and NHS England, it offers Q members the chance to develop project ideas and submit bids for up to £40,000 of funding
Exchange
Have you got a great idea that you’d like to get £40,000 of funding for?
Q Exchange offers Q members the chance to develop project ideas and submit bids for up to £40,000 of funding.
For Q Exchange in 2024, we have £800,000 of funding for the programme. It is delivered by Q and jointly funded by the Health Foundation and NHS England.
Our collaborative online process supports you to refine and develop your project ideas with the help of the Q community.
The theme for Q Exchange this year is:
How can we improve across system boundaries?
We are looking for proposals that involve two or more parts of the health and care system and focus on improving the quality and efficiency of the interface between different sectors. For example, care at home, primary care and the community sector.
Projects should relate to one or more of the following areas:
- Reducing waits sustainably and equitably.
- Increasing productivity and reducing waste.
- Boosting the culture, capabilities and structures needed for learning and improvement.
- Embedding improvement into management systems and processes.
We are looking for projects with potential for insights or interventions that are scalable. We expect proposals to show proactive links to local or national priorities and structures, as well as making active use of the Q community.
Improving productivity is an especially difficult but pressing challenge for the sector. Connecting your ideas to the holistic benefits you can achieve and showing the potential to inspire productivity gains alongside other objectives will be important to sustaining and spreading the work.
Project teams must be led by a Q member for the duration of the project but can involve people who are not yet part of the community.
In May 2024, we will announce the 30 shortlisted projects. Q members will then vote to choose the projects you want to see funded. We will announce the successful projects in July 2024.
Proposals are now being considered by the shortlisting panels. The shortlisted ideas that will go forward to the Q community vote will be announced on Wednesday 15 May 2024.
30 teams with collaboratively developed ideas, shortlisted for the Q community online vote
Q community members will vote online to decide which projects will receive funding
The Big Idea
Q Exchange aims to activate the knowledge of improvement experts across the UK; to create links between those leading work and those who can help champion, support, adopt these ideas; and to boost ideas that have the best potential to generate value for the health and care system
Collective wisdom
Involve people who understand improvement to develop and select projects. Support all involved to learn from evidence, emerging ideas, and each other
Community
Create links between those leading work and others who champion, support, and help adopt it
Impact
Boost ideas judged to have the best potential to generate insight and value for patients, staff, and the health and care system
The Timeline
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Idea generation
Upload your Q Exchange idea from 6 February 2024 and start to develop your idea with the support of the Q community.
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Refine your idea
Convert your idea into a proposal on the website by 12.00 on Wednesday 20 March 2024 for it to be considered by the shortlisting panels.
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Shortlisting
Shortlisting panels will assess proposals and select up to 30 projects to go forward to the vote. Shortlisted projects will be announced 15 May 2024.
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Community vote
Q members will vote online to decide which projects will receive funding. Winners will be announced in July 2024.
Latest activity
Co-designing maternity investigations systems using a Human Factors approach 20 Mar 2024
commented onWhilst working for the Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigation programme (MNSI) (formally HSIB), I have seen the value of doing system focused investigations for families, trusts and the wider NHS. This proposal sounds well timed and over due; Will look forward to seeing the impact of this proposal.