The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), would like to invite members of the Control Engineering community, interested in research that will improve services for people with multiple long-term conditions (MLTC), to attend an information webinar about a funding opportunity that is running with the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
The webinar will take place on 12 September 2022, 15:00-17:00. Further details can be found below or for further details please contact: Katherine.freeman@epsrc.ukri.org
Webinar Details
In Autumn 2022, the NIHR and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) will issue a joint call for research inviting proposals from multidisciplinary teams to take a systems design and engineering approach to improve services for people with multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) and their careers.
In advance of the call launch, potential applicants are invited to join a webinar on 12 September 2022, 15:00-17:00. This will provide opportunities to hear more about the call and the application process.
Given the focus on bringing NIHR and EPSRC communities together for a large-scale programme, attendees will also be invited to provide feedback on the call specification and consider the opportunities and challenges of the proposed commissioning approach.
To register your interest in attending the webinar, please complete and submit the sign-up form on the web link: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/systems-engineering-innovation-hubs-for-multiple-long-term-conditions/31056
Systems Engineering Innovation hubs for multiple long-term conditions: Call details
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) and the UK Research and Innovation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) invites proposals from multi-disciplinary teams to take a systems design and engineering approach to improve services for people with multiple long-term conditions (MLTC) and their carers. This programme has a broad definition of MLTC, which includes people with complex care needs and has been developed through two joint workshops held with the NIHR and EPSRC research communities and people living with MLTC. This will be a two-stage call including seed funding to progress to a stage 2 application for an Innovation Hub.
The draft call can be found here:
Systems Engineering Innovation hubs for Multiple long-term Conditions (SEISMIC) | NIHR
The commissioning for this large-scale programme takes a phased approach. Seed funding of up to £200k over 18 months per team is available to allow sufficient time and resource to enable groups to apply for a full-scale Innovation Hub. Applicants will be invited to apply for a Hub through a competitive process that will support for the strongest bids. It is anticipated that within this development phase teams will:
- Build appropriate networks of stakeholders across the systems engineering, mathematical sciences, information and communication technologies research, and health and social care pathway.
- Embed patient and public representation from diverse groups of people with lived experience of MLTC and carers at the heart of their programmes to ensure research addresses what matter to people with MLTC and all outputs from the Hubs are user- centred.
- Develop and carry out novel underpinning engineering and mathematical sciences research to map patient journeys and pathways and better understand and articulate the factors and relationships that underpin the health and care systems for this heterogenous population.
- Conduct acceptability and feasibility testing for innovative services or pathways with a range of stakeholders, such as NHS England and Improvement and equivalent organisations.