In numbers: our first projects and ideas call

Our first call for projects and ideas closed in September 2014. From the 58 submissions, including 29 projects and 29 ideas, put forward by the health and care community in the West, we’re now working on 21 live projects, with 15 generated from the projects’ call, and six from the ideas’ call. Here’s the full breakdown:

Project proposals

• 29 projects submitted in total
• 15 full, live NIHR CLAHRC West projects
• Three encouraged to develop the project further: we’re awaiting responses from principle investigators
• Two were provided with information but are not yet progressed
• One was submitted as a grant proposal elsewhere
• Nine were rejected as unsuitable or out of our remit

Ideas

• 29 ideas submitted in total
• Six are going forward as NIHR CLAHRC West projects
• Four were encouraged to develop their ideas in an existing Bristol Health Partners Health Integration Team
• 15 were provided with information or referred elsewhere
• Four are under continuing discussion

NIHR CLAHRC West Director Jenny Donovan said: “We have developed the first set of proposed projects collaboratively with colleagues in the local health and care community in the West. This has led to an exciting range of projects that we might not have otherwise have done. The response to our first call was fantastic, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the research proposal and idea applicants who have helped us develop this programme of research.”