You've told us that funding for technology is too complicated. We've not told you early enough how much funding is available or what it's available for, and we've often released funds too late in the year. Our proposal in Who Pays for What sets out our plan to address this and more. The Unified Tech Fund is the first step for 2021 to 2022 and will set out clearly the funding available and have a single approach to bidding for it.
In the Unified Tech Fund, we have brought together several national technology funds. This amounts to £938 million available to NHS organisations throughout the financial year 2021 to 2022.
For more detailed information on how the funding process will work, what is needed to bid and what the funding is intended to achieve, please refer to the Unified Tech Fund prospectus.
Applications are open as of 31 August 2021. The Unified Tech Fund will no longer be taking applications after 22 March 2022. However, prior to submission, applicants must be aware that some funds close before this date. For your convenience, we have chronoligically listed each closing date in the events section further down on this page.
If you have any questions on the Unified Tech Fund, or would like to discuss the process further, please email utf@nhsx.nhs.uk.