Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust has an excellent track record in securing grants from respected funding bodies, including the National Institute for Health and Care Research, major charities, the Medical Research Council and other UK research councils. These cover a broad range of subject areas, from population health and health economics, to stroke, oral health, critical care, antimicrobials, musculoskeletal conditions and care of acutely unwell children.

Current opportunities

The world of research funding is extremely competitive, and applications must be of a very high standard to be successful.

We have close links with other NHS and research organisations, Higher Education Institutions and pharmaceutical and medical technology companies to facilitate collaborative research projects.

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is keen to support applications to:

• National Institute for Health and Care Research
• Medical Research Council
• Charitable research bodies and
• Other grant applications.

To ensure prompt turnaround of authorisation at NCA, we require the following form to be completed by investigators before a grant submission and as soon as an application is being developed. You can access the form as a Word document and return it by email to RIFinance@nca.nhs.uk and katie.doyle@nca.nhs.uk

Website – Grants form Aug 2024

Or you can complete the form below and submit it via this website

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Funding body (eg NIHR RfPB) *

Funding call (month/year) *

Full title of application *

Host organisation *

Specialty *

Lead investigator (name and contact details) *

Lead investigator substantive employer *

Project manager (name and contact details) *

Collaborating organisations and key contacts (universities? other NHS trusts? Please include contact details) *

Project timelines (start date - end date) *

Project budget *

Deadline for submission (day/month/year) *

Approvals required (Managing Director of R&I? Finance Director? NHS designated signatory? Please list all) *

Is a research project included in your proposal? *

If yes - has a sponsor been identified to sponsor the project? (NHS, academic, commercially sponsored?)

If yes - provide details of required: NIHR research delivery support (ie research nurses), service support at sites (eg clinical research facility, pharmacy, radiology, labs)

If yes - have you started collating a SoECAT form? https://www.nihr.ac.uk/documents/online-soecat-guidance/30396

If yes - do you require the support of a statistician?

If yes, do you require any support with data management?

If yes, Research for the Future could assist with PPIE to strengthen your grant application. They can comment on study design/relevance or advise should you want patients as co-applicants. RftF has high numbers of volunteers with diabetes/respiratory/renal/CVD. Further details www.researchforthefuture.org. Main contact: katherine.grady@nca.nhs.uk

Submit

Please ensure the Research and Innovation (R&I) Grants team is made aware of all potential submissions as soon as possible. This will enable prompt sign off and authorisation to confirm all deadlines are met. Please allow 10 working days for the Grants Team to complete their review and provide any costs. It is important that applications are submitted well in advance of the submission deadline to allow for the final review and sign off by all parties.

The team is happy to review draft grant submissions prior to the deadline.

The R&I Grants Team contacts, who must be copied into all correspondence, are listed below. The Grants Team will liaise with all required parties across NCA to support the grant application in hand.

• R&I Business Finance Manager: Aishah Abbas (aishah.abbas@nca.nhs.uk)
• R&I Grants Finance Assistant: Muhsin Akhtar (muhsin.akhtar@nca.nhs.uk)
• Head of R&I: Katie Doyle (katie.doyle@nca.nhs.uk)
• SoECATs: Fiona Bray (fiona.bray@nca.nhs.uk), Rowen Norton (rowen.norton2@nca.nhs.uk)

SoECAT

This flowchart explains the process for Schedule of Events Cost Attribution Template (SoECAT) Review

This document explains more about SoECATs, a mandatory supporting document for grant applications to some UK funders where the proposed research will be undertaken in an NHS or Social Care setting in England, or where an NHS partner is involved in the project: SoECAT guidance 2024

Additional notes:

You can also obtain support from the NIHR Research Design Service North West whose role is to support researchers to develop and design high quality research applications for submission to NIHR and other national, peer-reviewed funding competitions for applied health or social care research. We encourage you to contact RDS as soon as you are considering applying for a grant.