If you have an innovative project that promotes early cancer diagnosis, treatment, recovery and/or patient experience in the Humber and North Yorkshire area, Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance could help you with the funding.

The Cancer Alliance, in collaboration with Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber and the ICB Innovation and Research and Improvement System, is proud to announce the launch of the Cancer Innovation Grants 2024/25 programme.

The Cancer Innovation Grants form part of the Cancer Alliance’s aim to build a culture of cutting-edge cancer innovations, in line with the NHS Long Term Plan. From small, grass-roots projects, to larger-scale innovation schemes, we’re encouraging innovative approaches to cancer that target local priorities for improvement.

The Cancer Alliance welcomes applications from:

• Primary and Secondary Care organisations
• Patients
• Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprises (VCSEs)
• Wider system stakeholders – e.g. social care organisations

Collaboration is encouraged across organisations and sectors.

The Cancer Alliance wants to promote innovation in cancer care to improve earlier and faster diagnosis of cancer, as well as patient experience. The money awarded can be used to develop, adopt, implement and evaluate new initiatives towards such improvements.

The Cancer Alliance is particularly keen on applications which:

• • • • focus on (but are not exclusive to) tumour sites with the highest volume of late-stage diagnoses in our area. These are:
        • oesophageal
        • lung
        • pancreatic
        • colon
        • rectum
        • non-hodgkin’s lymphoma
        • prostate
      • target the 20% most deprived populations experiencing health inequalities, such as:
        • BME groups
        • people with mental health issues
        • learning disabilities

See Guidance for more information.

The Cancer Alliance is looking for newly identified innovations, as well as projects that adopt innovation ideas that have been proven a success elsewhere. Some examples include:

• • • Adopting technology or a workforce to implement or embed new ways of reducing demand on diagnostic services
    • Developing patient education solutions, particularly those designed to address health inequalities
    • Initiatives to support increase in uptake of cancer screening programmes, with a focus on specific groups where screening uptake is low

Applications for the Cancer Innovations Grant open from 8 April 2024.

Applications must be submitted by 5pm on 31 May 2024.

Successful applicants will be notified by 21 June 2024.

This allows three weeks for the panel to assess your application and hold further fact-finding discussions with project leads, where appropriate.

You can view and download the Cancer Innovation Grants 2024/25 Guidance and Application Form here.

All applications must be supplied in PDF format to the Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance Cancer Diagnostics and Innovations Team inbox – ahead of the 5pm, 31^st  May 2024 deadline.

For any queries relating to the Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Innovation Grants please contact the Cancer Diagnostics and Innovation Team at [email protected].

Take a look at the diagnostics and innovation work that the Cancer Alliance does.