Guidance on Completion of Financial Plan Template (Version 2) Page 1 Guidance on Completion of Financial Plan Template A financial plan template (Research Centre Costs.xls) is provided in Microsoft Excel workbook format, and should be completed for the Centre as a whole. General The funding requested should total no more than £1m per annum. Please note that only 50% funding will be provided in 2007/08, and that the proposal should be costed to reflect this profile. Funding will not be provided for university facilities, or infrastructure which is located in the university, or to meet the costs of work which is not related to improving the quality, safety and effectiveness of NHS services Please use the justification/comments section to provide any additional information on the funding requested. The individual worksheets in the financial plan template should be completed as follows: Summary This worksheet summarises the cost of the research programme, and should populate automatically from the totals in the other worksheets. Research Programmes An estimate of the percentage of the funding, requested via this scheme, which is to be devoted to each of the proposed research programmes, should be provided in this worksheet. Research Salaries The Centre grant will reimburse the time of staff engaged on patient safety and service quality research. Salaries may be sought for research, research support or other staff (from all professional groups), required to work full or part-time on the Centre’s research. Applications must be costed at current (2006/07) prices, based on current salary scales and scale increments. Annual salary increments or other equivalent annual increases should be included in future years but not any other anticipated pay increases (eg nationally agreed pay awards) Please indicate the staff category (medical, nursing, therapist, etc.), current employer (NHS, university, etc.) and funder (NHS, HEFCE, etc), of existing posts. The expectation is that the funding will be used to support posts employed by (or funded by) the NHS, and that any newly established posts created with funding from this scheme will be employed by the NHS partner. However, where there is a local agreement for staff to be employed by the university partner, and where this does not attract additional costs over and above the normal costs of employment, this will be allowed (ie the cost of employer's contributions will be met, but the posts will not attract Full Economic Costs in the university). In exceptional circumstances, funding may be used to support university employed (and funded) staff, working on patient safety and service quality research within the NHS; this will need to be fully justified, however. Guidance on Completion of Financial Plan Template (Version 2) Page 2 The total cost of research posts should include National Insurance, superannuation and regional weighting allowances. Non-Pay Research Costs DH will meet the costs of non-pay recurrent expenditure required to carry out the proposed research, including: • consumables • consultancy fees • travel and subsistence (including visits to scientific conferences, collaborative working visits, etc.) • software licences • local computing charges which can be directly assigned to the proposed research • equipment costing less than £5,000 Please provide a list of items to be funded, and provide appropriate, brief justification. Service Support & Infrastructure Costs The NHS service support costs of patient safety and service quality research associated with the proposed research programme should be detailed on this worksheet. The cost to the NHS of the time spent on the research programme by staff (from all professional groups) who are not listed on the research salaries worksheet, should be included in the Pay Costs section. The cost of research infrastructure within the NHS to support the proposed research programme (eg statistical support) should also be included within this section, along with other, legitimate and reasonable, indirect costs within the NHS (eg, accommodation, payroll, HR, finance). Possible expenditure categories are provided, but please amend to reflect the type of expenditure associated with the Centre’s research. External Grant Funding Please detail the amount of grant funding, directly related to patient safety and service quality research, received by the partnership during 2005/06 (ie not the total value of the grant, but the element of the award to be awarded during that financial year). Funding should be categorised by type of funding organisation, using the classification employed for Table 1B of the R&D Annual Report.