Dementia Healthcare Inequalities Initiative funding call

Healthcare inequalities report

Last year we commissioned the Office of Health Economics to delve into the healthcare inequalities faced by people in living with dementia in the UK.

They created a report which has recently been published with some startling findings. 

The report highlighted 110 inequalities that are faced by people living with dementia and their health and social care. This can range from things like how a person's ethnicity affects their ability to get a timely diagnosis, to social care funding cuts affecting people with dementia more than people with other diseases.

The report also found that 28 inequalities that specifically effect carers of people with dementia.

Healthcare inequalities funding call

We know that people living with dementia and their carers face numerous inequalities. Something needs to be done, so we are asking research teams to come forward with big, bold ideas which will result in a fairer deal for people living with dementia.

We are introducing a £2M research funding initiative to catalyse the development of a transformational intervention that will address one or more of these inequalities.

The call will focus on generating vital evidence necessary for the scaling and integration of a diagnosis and post-diagnostic care intervention into UK healthcare systems.

We are offering applicants the opportunity to apply for the full £2M to be spent over three years.

Key dates include: 

• 26 June 2024: the Healthcare Inequalities Report was launched

• 3 July: applications open

• 12 July 2024: Healthcare Inequalities webinar.

Healthcare inequalities webinar

For more information we will be hosting a webinar about the call on the 12th July. The webinar will be hosted by our Director of Research and Influencing, Fiona Carragher and  will cover the importance of health inequalities in our organisational strategy and how this funding call fits into that wider framework. 

It will then give more detail on the kinds of applications we are expecting and funding criteria for the call. 

Researchers will also have a chance to ask any questions the might have about the call in a Q&A session as part of the webinar.

Registration for the webinar will open in early July.