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Contracts for Innovation Cymru: Reducing Missed Appointments and Improving Access to Planned Care

Contracts for Innovation Cymru is a competition for projects that tackle missed NHS appointments and fairer access to planned care, open to organisations across the United Kingdom, with SMEs particularly encouraged to apply. This scheme has closed.

Run by Innovate UK, Contracts for Innovation Cymru

Last read from iuk-business-connect.org.uk on 14 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

It closed on 20 October 2026. It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.

The challenge focuses on understanding and addressing the barriers that lead to non-attendance, supporting fairer access to services, improving patient experience and making better use of NHS resources.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Closed 20 October 2026

As stated: Opens: 22/09/2026 Closes: 20/10/2026 12:00pm

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Up to £200,000 is available to support a portfolio of projects, depending on how many submissions are received and how good they are. Projects will usually be 100% funded. This is a Phase 1 (Discovery and Feasibility) contract. Selected projects may be invited to a later Phase 2 competition, depending on future funding.

Whole fund: £200,000, shared between applicants

Found by our research, not on the official page

Who can apply

Any organisation can submit an application, and the opportunity is expected to be particularly attractive for SMEs.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Micro (under 10 staff), Small (10 to 49 staff), Medium (50 to 249 staff)

Not confirmed on the official page

Sectors

healthcare

How to apply

On sbri.simplydo.co.uk

Confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

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HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

Drawn from the areas the funder names. If a scheme is only for part of a council area, check its own page. Boundaries from the Office for National Statistics.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Last read from iuk-business-connect.org.uk on 14 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 20 Oct 2026. A person last checked it on 15 Oct 2026, so confirm the details with Innovate UK before you apply.

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