Application window open: 15 April - 24 May 2024

Proposals should aim to improve patient’s experience leading to enhanced service delivery and clinical outcomes.

Leeds Hospitals Charity is making available £26,737 for Patient Experience Grants in Q1 of 2024/25. The maximum grant available is £7,500 and we’re looking for a range of projects and initiatives of varying value from £75 to £7,500 that will have a direct impact on patients treated and cared for at Leeds Teaching Hospitals over the next 12 -18 months.  

Central to our strategy is our patient benefit ethos; the aim of this grant opportunity is for proposed projects to improve the experience of patients treated and cared for at Leeds Teaching Hospitals, leading to enhanced service delivery and clinical outcomes. 

Proposals that have the potential for wider implementation across several specialties, patient groups and teams are particularly welcomed.   

Projects should also demonstrate the potential to deliver impact in one or more of our three areas of focus:

• Tackling health inequalities 
• Treatments of rare conditions 
• Innovation and health technology

Applications must also demonstrate patient involvement in the development of a project.

Examples of previously funded patient experience projects include: 

• Games and activity boxes for older adult patients  
• My Hospital Journey books for patients at the Children’s Hospital
• Refurbishments of patient day rooms and or courtyard gardens
• Leeds Maternal Journal pilot 
• Bereavement resources for use in a range of different areas across the hospitals
• Sensory units
• VR headsets for use with children

 

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We invite you to register for our upcoming information webinar (held via MS Teams) on Wednesday 24 April 2024 where there will be an opportunity to ask questions. A recording will be shared for those who can’t attend.

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Application Process

We encourage you to read our funding opportunity guidance before applying, find out more below.

Patient Experience Guidance

1. Eligibility We welcome applications for the Patient Experience Grant Opportunity from staff employed by Leeds Teaching Hospitals or who holding a relevant honorary contract.

2. Idea We encourage potential applicants to attend the webinar on Wednesday 24 April 2024 (a recording will be shared for those who can’t attend), discuss their idea with their Line Manager and the Grant Funding team before preparing any paperwork. We also advise that you begin all relevant LTHT processes. before applying to the Charity (e.g. Liaison with Corporate Planning, Medical Physics, Information Technology)

3. Relevance We encourage applicants to consider how the proposal aligns with the criteria set out in the Patient Experience grant funding opportunity guidance including how the Small Grants Panel intend to score applications. For this grant opportunity we want to understand how patients have been involved.

4. Make an application Applications will open on Monday 15 April 2024 Please make sure to select the following in the available drop down at the start of the application form: Funding Type: Funding Call  Funding Call Type: Patient Experience Deadline for applications against the patient experience grant opportunity is Friday 24 May 2024. Application Form

5. Review & Decision  Applications will be reviewed by the Charity’s Small Grants Panel with input from LTHT stakeholders and Advisors. For this grant round the Panel will meet on Wednesday 12 June 2024.

6. Monitoring & Evaluation All successful applicants will be required to complete a Monitoring & Evaluation form and share with the Charity the impact of grant funding through case studies, blogs and news stories.

Find out more about the projects we have funded

If you still have questions after reading the guidance, please contact the Grants Team on 0113 539 7091 or email [email protected]