FundYear

Started

Organisation

NameName of Project Summary 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17

IESD 2014

VoiceAbility

Advocacy

Speak Out on-line - plugging

the voices and views of people

with Learning Disabilities into

the heart of commissioning,

planning and improvement.

Speak-Out On-Line (SPOOL) will provide a unique platform for people to engage

with/consult us as people with learning disabilities (PWLD) over local/regional and national

strategies, projects and services. We will work with clients to design accessible surveys for

PWLD to complete on-line/by App, as well as the resources to help people work off-line

and/or in groups. Responses can be uploaded, and commented on, in a variety of formats

from any participant, enabling genuine engagement and dialogue. It will enable better, richer

and quicker engagement with PWLD and greater opportunities for us to improve and

commission health and social care services.

£155,220 £116,840

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IESD 2014

National Gamete

Donation Trust

Hub and Spoke National

Sperm Bank

To provide support, information and advice to gamete donors and recipients, both potential

and actual, on issues relating to infertility treatment involving the use of donated sperm,

eggs and embryos. To liaise with clinics, professionals and professional bodies to

encourage the recruitment and retention of sperm, egg and embryo donors. To work with

the media and other relevant parties to raise public awareness of the shortage of sperm,

egg and embryo donors in an effort to alleviate, and ultimately eradicate, that shortage. And

to manage the voluntary contact register linking donors, people conceived by donation and

their siblings, ensuring that the appropriate testing, support and advice is available.

£77,000

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IESD 2014

Tommy's

Baby Be Smoke Free - a quit

smoking service for young

mums-to-be

Building on Tommy's Baby Be Smoke Free pilot (Hill, 2013), we will develop a stop smoking

intervention that is a) targeted specifically at young pregnant women b) non-judgemental c)

convenient and cost-effective d) sustainable.

The current pathway for quitting smoking is not meeting the needs of this group evidenced

by the low referral rates and the high rate of young women who smoke in their pregnancies

(2012 IFS). Yet babies born to mothers aged under 20 are 60% more likely to die than

children born to older mothers and have a 25% greater likelihood of being born too early or

too small.

£115,985 £70,935 £59,868

Awards

INNOVATION, EXCELLENCE & SERVICE DEVELOPMENT (IESD) FUND - 2009/10 to 2013/14

IESD 2014

Donor Conception

Network

Improving support for donor

conceived children and their

families by implementing a

comprehensive business

strategy for a small national

charity

For the last 5 years the Donor Conception Network has relied, in part, on funding and

grants to keep itself on a sound financial footing. This one year project will review the

charity’s current business model and develop a new model to ensure the charity can be self

sufficient in the future without any need for external funding. A change programme will

improve and modernise all aspects of its offering; develop partnerships with professionals

and institutions; create new ways of generating corporate support; improve ways our

membership can contribute; and at the same time put the organisation’s business model

onto a sustainable footing. The Donor Conception Network addresses the information and

support needs of 30,000 donor conceived children and their families and is the only national

support charity in this field. The recent Nuffield Bioethics Council report made it clear that

there is a state obligation to ensure this essential work continues.

£63,000

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IESD 2014

NAM Publications

Positive Partnership: improving

the sustainability and impact of

HIV information support

This project will develop greater partnership between NAM and England’s HIV clinical

services, improving the sustainability, impact and personalisation of HIV information support

across England. The ultimate beneficiaries will be 30,000 people with diagnosed HIV.

The project will develop our current resource dissemination network into a membership

scheme and: ensure clinical services can access Information Standard certified resources

to support patients, and secure their long-term provision; increase the personalisation of

HIV information resources; increase integration between clinical services and treatment

information. NAM’s resources will: support patient adherence; facilitate doctor-patient

dialogue; encourage self-management; reduce use of expensive inpatient and A&E

services.

£68,000 £28,500

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IESD 2014

Penny Brohn

Cancer Care The Wellness Package

PBCC’s Wellness Package is designed to help improve the lives of those affected by the

consequences of cancer and its treatments. The Wellness Package offers an introductory

‘Living Well' course providing: healthy eating; gentle exercise; relaxation and stress

management; emotional and psychological support; help managing impact on relationships

– plus ‘Follow Up’ support over 12 months with a range of services. The Wellness Package

directly responds to rigorous service evaluation results [9]. The Wellness Package offers: 60

Living Well courses, 12 months Follow Up services in 5 regions, (including deprived areas),

reaching 720 participants, over 18 months.

£133,577 £55,281

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IESD 2014

Samaritans

Project title Samaritans Cruse

Partnership - increasing

support for those bereaved by

suicide

This project addresses the Government’s Suicide Prevention Strategy objective to ‘better

support those bereaved or affected by suicide’, increasing capacity for this vulnerable group.

England suffered 4,509 suicides in 2011, each having a devastating effect on family and

friends and a significant impact on their mental health.

Following a successful pilot, Samaritans and Cruse, working with organisations locally, will

use their expertise and complementary skills to offer tailored, facilitated support groups to

improve the emotional health of those bereaved through suicide. Our evaluation shows this

is achieved through the understanding, mutual support, and the safe, respectful

environment the groups offer

£173,481 £170,098 £213,000

IESD 2014

Best Beginnings

From Bump to Breastfeeding:

working together to improve

health outcomes

From Bump to Breastfeeding: working together to improve health outcomes

Our DH funded “From Bump to Breastfeeding” DVD (FBTB), endorsed by UNICEF and five

Royal Colleges, is associated with increased breastfeeding rates and is in the

DH/Start4Life/UNICEF breastfeeding care pathway. Yet last year, less than 10% of women

in England received the DVD.

Working collaboratively with health and social-care professionals, commissioners and

parents in localities across NE, NW and Y&H regions, we will support the commissioning

and embedding of bespoke versions of FBTB. This will result in increased breastfeeding

rates, improve health outcomes and associated cost savings. This has potential for

sustainable, national roll-out, ensuring more families benefit from this resource.

£121,940 £124,938

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IESD 2014

Fit for Work Team,

The

Bridging the Gap-Addressing

the Health Barriers to

Employability

Building on our experience of delivering the DWP/DH Fit For Work pilot, and as a specialist

provider of holistic vocational rehabilitation, we will develop our model to provide a case

managed , and thus integrated, multi-agency service, to enable unemployed people with

health barriers to become work ready.

Our three year programme will start with delivery in specific areas of the East Midlands and

North West regions, expanding across those regions in year two. During this period we will

build evidence and learning for year three which will focus on national roll-out through

sharing our learning /building capacity with commissioners and building capacity and

capability through third sector supply chain development.

£435,220 £517,856 £477,281

IESD 2014

West Mercia Rape

& Sexual Abuse

Support Centre Rape Crisis Services

The project will support the development of responsive models of commissioning systems

and processes for the victims of rape and sexual violence:

• Providing specialised rape crisis services, advice, expertise and evidence to CCGs, local

authorities and stakeholders

• Promoting the voice of victims, exploring how personal budgets could be used to fund

services

• Evidencing the effectiveness of specialised rape crisis services, demonstrating the wider

social impact

• Exploring innovative funding models

The project will mean victims of rape and sexual violence nationally have better access to

rape crisis services, with improved mental, physical and emotional health, wellbeing and

quality of life.

£81,680 £82,495 £81,750

IESD 2014

Race Equality

Foundation

Effectively tacking violence and

improving the health and care

outcomes for the most

vulnerable children and young

people through the provision of

the evidence based

Strengthening Families,

Strengthening Communities

parent education programme in

three regions across England.

The 2012 DH funded review on the impact of violence on health and care outcomes

identified factors that increase risk for children and young people, and also began to identify

the protective factors that lower risk. By scaling-up and deploying our evidenced-based

Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities parenting programme (SFSC) that

promotes the factors that lower the risk of children and young people experiencing violence,

we will improve the health and care outcomes for vulnerable or disadvantaged children. We

will work in Hull, Manchester and Walsall, reaching and impacting 297 parents and 624

children and young people.

£70,026 £70,552 £71,364

IESD 2014

Endometriosis UK

Endometriosis Patient Support

Groups alligned to Specialised

Endometriosis Centres

This project will recruit and train volunteers to work alongside the Specialised Endometriosis

Centres set up under NHS England Specialised Commissioning activities to create patient

support groups and networks. This will ensure that a continuum of care is provided

something that is badly needed by women with endometriosis - a long-term serious

gynaecological condition affecting around 1 in 10 pre-menopausal women for which there is

no satisfactory cure. Surgical and medical treatments can provide some relief of symptoms

but most women require long-term support to reach an equilibrium of self-management.

Information and peer-to-peer support delivered locally can provide an integrated link with the

clinical provision, supporting consultants and specialist nurses to deliver greater quality of

care and reaching more women than the specialist clinic is able to cope with on their own.

This support will also reduce the burden on the specialist clinic, on feeder general

gynaecological departments, on GPs and on A&E services to whom women suffering

debilitating symptoms associated with endometriosis often turn.

£63,686 £59,718 £65,403

IESD 2014

Care Leavers

Association, The Caring For Better Health

To improve the physical and mental health of care leavers of all ages by using the user

voice to develop guides and resources to inform the commissioning and delivery of

services.

The aim is to ensure that CCGs and health professionals in a variety of contexts are more

aware of the health issues facing care leavers and how to address them. This should lead to

better services and better outcomes for the main beneficiaries, adult care leavers of all ages

who come into contact with adult health services

£68,474 £65,851 £68,285

IESD 2014

Amateur

Swimming

Association, The Dementia friendly swimming

The proposal is to establish a framework for delivering swimming in 3 strands- relaxation,

energy and exercise to music- for those people with dementia and carers. This will be

achieved by working with 2 local authorities in Year 1, 6 large authorities in Year 2 and then

100 dementia friendly pools in Year 3. In order to achieve this, the Amateur Swimming

Association will work with a number of partner organisations. We plan to make the

programme sustainable by working with our wide network of pool partners and by working

closely with the Alzheimer's Society's dementia friendly communities.

The proposal has been set up so as to be fully flexible. While the aim is establish 100

dementia friendly swimming pools in Year 3, the budget is fully flexible and can be scaled

up or down according to funds available.

£319,149 £500,000 £500,000

IESD 2014

Community

Catalysts CIC

A Shared Lives incubator to

deliver high-quality

personalised outcomes for

many more people, supported

by social investment

The Shared Lives (SL) scheme puts potential carers through rigorous recruitment, vetting

and approval to work with people who need support to deliver successful outcomes and

inclusion in their life, family and friendship networks. These SL arrangements are carefully

monitored and supported by the scheme which is regulated by CQC. The small size of

schemes and demand on the SLI points to a lack of business development skills and

expertise to drive the sustainable development and growth of SL services (while maintaining

quality and ethos) combined with a lack of up-front investment for schemes to grow. The

project aims to ensure that the SLI becomes a means of establishing SL arrangements at

scale.

£81,765

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IESD 2014

United Response Cornwall Dementia Hub

An arts/activity-based, flexible and dynamic dementia support service located in central

Falmouth (Cornwall), coupled with outreach early intervention dementia support. A café

focus as a primary social ‘tool’ will bring people together whilst providing person centred

activities to maximise independence and promote good health, whilst minimising the

deteriorating effects of dementia. An independent evaluation will drive national learning,

facilitating national dementia service development.

£52,907 £68,000 £34,000

IESD 2014

CAMHS Outcomes

Research

Consortium

Development of Outcomes-

Focused Voluntary Sector

Provision of Child Mental

Health

To allow the organisation to provide additional regional support to enable voluntary sector

providers to effectively collect and use outcome data; and for commissioners to make best

use of this data to improve service provision for children and families. Consolidating and

extending voluntary sector membership and extending the core team to include five regional

improvement support officers based in five distinct geographic regions in order to enable

voluntary sector members to become commissioning ready.

£465,365 £472,195 £482,243

IESD 2014

Cancer Research

UK

Oral Cancer Toolkit: A training

tool to aid early detection and

improved outcomes for oral

cancers

Incidence rates of oral cancer have risen by a third in the last decade with 6500 cases

diagnosed and 2000 deaths in 2010. Additionally, it is one of the few cancers that has a

trend of increasing mortality. Outcome is greatly enhanced by early detection with prompt

treatment improving two-year survival rates from less than 50 per cent at stage four to 90

per cent at stage one. This proposal aims to use the successful model of the GP Skin

Cancer Toolkit developed 2011-14 under the innovation strand to create a similar toolkit for

dentists and GPs covering oral cancer.

£87,153 £36,656 £16,664

IESD 2014

Centre for Mental

Health

Making work work: Extending

Individual Placement and

Support across England

Will establish Individual Placement and Support (IPS) services in 6 partnership areas (NHS

Mental Health Trust and/or Local Authority), in the South East, East Midlands and Yorkshire

& Humber regions, achieving paid jobs for 340 service users over the three years. The

project will firmly establish the service in the 6 areas and spread knowledge and support for

IPS across England, promoting ongoing availability of supported employment for anyone

with a severe and enduring mental health need who would like help to gain paid

employment.

£392,090 £390,137 £401,917

IESD 2014

Older People's

Advocacy Alliance Older People's Cancer Voices

The organisation references DH and Macmillan evidence that states: “under-treatment of

older people with cancer may be a substantial problem". The project will build relationships

in 4 areas in England between CCGs and advocacy organisations supporting older people

affected by cancer (OPABC). It will produce best practice guidance and cancer advocacy

support standards, and involve local Compacts and Macmillan Cancer Support, enabling

greater opportunities for OPABC to influence service delivery through Healthwatch and

Health and Wellbeing Boards promoting equality of opportunity along the cancer pathway.

£90,607 £91,104 £92,159

IESD 2014

Royal National

Institute of Blind

People

EIRECS - Early Intervention

and Rehabilitation in Eye Care

Services

This project aims to ensure that every person experiencing sight loss benefits from early

access to a nationally agreed eye care pathway, promoting independence, choice and

control. Working with Rehabilitation Officers and Local Authorities, it will strengthen the

workforce through training and learning networks to support integrated health and care

provision. By creating a sustainable model to provide practical support, it will connect blind

and partially sighted people to services and commissioners to improve health and care

outcomes.

£71,504 £117,147 £83,085

IESD 2014

Action on Hearing

Loss

Hear to Care - Improving long-

term care and support for older

people with hearing loss in

care settings

To test out changes or improvements which can be made in mainstream longer term care

settings to improve the diagnosis and management of hearing loss. The project will test out

changes in differernt areas including procedures around assessment, identification and

recording of hearing loss, staff training and management of hearing aids and ensuring

hearing loss is identified and supported in care transitions, e.g., admission to acute care. It

aims to improve the care and support provided to older people with hearing loss in care,

reducing their loneliness and social isolation and improving their overall health and well-

being.

£67,801 £63,575 £71,340

IESD 2014

Fair Shares

Gloucestershire

Neighbourhood Support and

Time Banking

To pilot the creation of neighbourhood support systems (neighbours looking out for

neighbours), through small clusters of time banking, supporting older people and those with

long term health conditions. Beneficiaries will be matched to a neighbourhood 'buddy' (or

buddies) who will offer proactive help and 'keep an eye open' in addition to reactive

assignments (particularly during winter). This will test this new model of support in the

Forest of Dean, replicating across the county, then nationally, reaching at least 380 people

and 15 communities.

£36,568 £46,067 £48,945

IESD 2014

Action for Blind

People

Action Talking Therapy

Network

The project will create and develop an emotional support and talking therapy network for

blind and partially sighted people, their carers and families. Three key strands: i) offer a face

to face counselling service combining expert staff and volunteer delivery; ii) provide all client-

facing staff with 1st tier skills and appropriate tools, deliver a 2nd tier emotional support

service complementary to the 3rd tier face to face counselling service; iii) equip mainstream

providers of counselling with expertise in sight loss support issues via development and

delivery of bespoke training resource.

£164,807 £168,601

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IESD 2014British Institute of

Human Rights,

The

Care and Support: A Human

Rights Approach to Advocacy

This project will build on the previously IESD-funded "Human Rights and Third Sector

Health and Social Care" (innovation stream). Responding to the independent evaluation this

next phase seeks to embed and sustain human rights advocacy within care by developing

tailored (and nationally replicable) supports with third sector partner organisations. These

will focus on helping to achieve better individual patient outcomes and broader

organisational change.

£87,454 £94,469 £93,199

IESD 2014

SignHealth

Improving Deaf Patients'

Experience and Access

Through Telecommunications

Technology

The project will use telecommunications to give 680 Deaf sign-language users a much-

improved patient experience and equal access to health services. Deaf patients will use

innovative technology through which they can access remote interpreters almost

immediately for conversations between themselves and health-care professionals (where

appropriate). The project will measure the improvement to patient experience, and evaluate

cost savings for the NHS. Additional benefits will include reducing health inequalities, fewer

wasted appointments, improved safety through reduced risk of medical error, improved

compliance with Equality Act 2010, easier and more satisfactory consultations plus

improved Long Term Conditions compliance

£220,256 £221,015 £221,540

IESD 2014

Hepatitis C Trust,

The

South Asian Hepatitis C

targeted awareness raising,

testing and support program

Targeted awareness and testing events aimed at the South Asian community in mosques

and other community centers, in partnership with community leaders and local health

authorities. To encourage people to come forward for testing and reduce the incidence of

liver disease in this group and reduce health inequality in access to services in the South

Asian community.

£29,100 £32,050 £32,050

IESD 2014

Age Concern

Support Services

(Yorkshire &

Humber) Eatwell and Livewell

Local Age UKs will work with older people identified as having nutritional issues following a

MUST (Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool) assessment either in hospital or primary

care. Using an outcomes tool the project will work with the older person and their carers to

address the issues impacting on their diet (e.g. isolation, access to groceries, financial

issues).

£54,100 £56,450 £58,800

IESD 2014

3VA Health & Wellbeing Visit

60 Fire & Rescue Service volunteers will provide support to over 2,500 households. These

volunteers will visit people at home by arrangement, to talk about their health and wellbeing

including mental & physical health, social isolation, nutrition, substance use, winter warmth,

communication needs, general welfare needs and health & safety (including mobility, sight

issues). The scheme makes prevention and early intervention possible for the most

vulnerable people

£116,256 £101,022 £78,932

IESD 2014

British Institute of

Human Rights,

The

Delivering Compassionate

Care: Connecting Human

Rights to the Front Line

The project aims to improve outcomes for patients by supporting frontline staff to deliver

mental health services that respect and protect human rights. Human Rights Champions will

take part in a mapping exercise where areas are identifed for improvement within a service

and ways in which human rights can help address this issue. BIHR and the Human Rights

Champions will co-produce a resource on human rights and mental health that supports the

delivery of a follow up training addressing key issues identified during the mapping exercise.

£73,585 £82,711 £82,384