Research Capability Funding (RCF)

NHS Norfolk & Waveney ICB is awarded RCF based on the active NIHR grants that we hold.

We currently use our RCF allocation in five ways to support research capacity and capability building:

• Our research development team; a proportion of our funding supports our internal research development team

• Project grants to support academics to write high quality research applications to the NIHR

• Early Career Fellowship scheme in collaboration with the University of East Anglia

• Help Primary Care Networks to develop research capacity and capability

• Enhance capacity and capability across the Norfolk and Waveney system.

We have published a set of principles by which we use our RCF allocation. These can be found here.

Early Career Fellowships

These early career fellowships are co-funded through RCF and the University of East Anglia (UEA). 

The primary goal of the fellowship is for the fellow to write a National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) grant application to secure future funding. The fellowship will give the successful candidates the time and support to conduct work that leads to an NIHR application. For example:

• Enhance their CV by publishing further papers from their PhD

• Conduct a review to strengthen their research proposal

• Collect some preliminary data to inform the design of the grant application

• Build a network of collaborators and/or PPIE contributors

Our early career fellowships are advertised via UEA.