The Health Foundation, an independent charity working to improve the quality of health care in the UK, has launched its £800,000 Efficiency Research Programme.

The Efficiency Research Programme is an open call for innovative research ideas on system efficiency and value for money in health and social care.

We are inviting researchers to submit ideas on innovative approaches that support transformational change needed to ensure the long-term sustainability of health and social care in the UK.

We want to fund two or three experienced research teams to explore ways that health, or health and social care services can address the challenge of increasing efficiency and value for money, and providing more for less.

Each project will receive between £250,000 and £500,000 for research completed over three to five years.

The four key priority areas for this programme are:

• allocative efficiency: achieving a more cost-effective mix of services within health and…