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£1.1m funding awarded to organisations across the North West

The North West Coast Academic Health Science Network (NWC AHSN) has awarded £1.1m of funding to 15 organisations across Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and Cumbria.

Bids came from NHS Trusts, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Local Enterprise Partnerships, Local Authorities and Universities, which were all eligible to bid for the funding.

Successful applicants include: Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Cumbria and South Ribble Partnership.

Chief executive of the NWC AHSN, Dr Liz Mear, said: “We’re very pleased to have received such strong, competitive and creative bids in response to this competition.

“This funding will help to put structures in place which will enable the implementation of initiatives which will have positive wide-reaching effects on how we deliver healthcare in the region.

“As we look forward to future models of healthcare, we need the infrastructure in place to support the uptake of the very best, most innovative products and systems, to ensure we’re reducing healthcare inequalities and offering the most advanced care possible.

“These schemes are part of our ongoing efforts to put the foundations in place to ‘future-proof’ the region’s health and social care systems and we look forward to working with our partners as we monitor and progress these programmes.”

The full list of NWC AHSN funding award winners:

South Ribble Partnership has been awarded £36,000
Connecting Care Across Cheshire Pioneer Programme has been awarded £100,000
Sefton Council, Well North, Integro Healthcare Solutions has been awarded £88,000
University of Cumbria has been awarded £15,000 subject to achieving match funding
Liverpool Health Partners has been awarded £38,854
Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded £50,000
Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group has been awarded £115,000
North West Procurement Development has been awarded £40,000
East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group has been awarded £28,700
Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group has been awarded £136,000
Mersey Care has been awarded £125,000
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital was awarded £280,000
NWC Genomic Medicine Centre was awarded £119,400
Two hospitals have been awarded a total of £60,000 subject to achieving matched funding