MRFF – 2022 Clinician Researchers: Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Grant Opportunity

Overview

The objective of Streams 1 and 2 of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research projects led by nurses, midwives and allied health professionals that validate and implement new approaches for improving the quality of patient care. The objective of Stream 3 of this grant opportunity is to provide a grant of financial assistance to support a medical research project that prospectively evaluates projects funded through Streams 1 and 2 to generate knowledge that improves understanding of the factors that promote the adoption, impact and sustainability of evidence-based practice in health care. The intended outcome of the research funded by this grant opportunity is to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians by supporting nurses, midwives and allied health professionals to improve the quality of health care, practice and systems by undertaking applied research in health care that: improves outcomes for their patients addresses an identified local health priority improves the effectiveness of health services by improving safety, quality and/or efficiency builds the capacity of clinician-researchers to undertake research that improves the quality-of-care patients receive. This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health. Further information on the Medical Research Future Fund is available from the Department of Health website.