In moving from Wellcome to the NHS Confederation, UPD was fortunate to receive two years of funding so we could continue the excellent work that the team has been doing since 2016. However, time flies when you’re having fun and we’re already almost six months into that two year period. Funding for initiatives like ours can be unpredictable in the medium and long term as priorities shift and funding pots change, so we need to think about our future now to put ourselves in the best possible position. Many of our stakeholders have expressed their desire for UPD to exist, and grow, in the longer term. UPD is well-known amongst many prominent health care and research organisations, consistently receiving positive feedback and support for its contributions as well as requests for more collaborative projects that we don’t currently have capacity to take on.
As a result, we’re commissioning a supplier to undertake a review into the potential income generation opportunities available to UPD, and determine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The UPD team can then work with its Steering Group and the NHS Confederation to analyse the information and take appropriate decisions for funding UPD after April 2025.
More information can be found in the Request for Proposals document below. The deadline for submitting a proposal is 17:00 on 29th September 2023.
If you have any questions, please contact us through our team inbox: hello@understandingpatientdata.org.uk