The Trustee for the HCF Research Foundation
The HCF Research Foundation funds research and study proposals that use and enhance current knowledge to improve healthcare outcomes, including the quality, efficiency, equity of, and access to, health service provision. The HCF Research Foundation’s program addresses the main dimensions of the health system that interest HCF, the HCF Research Foundation and the community at large. We aim to deliver better health outcomes and access to affordable, highquality healthcare when and where it’s needed. This year a total of nine projects were awarded grants through the HCF Research Foundation s three main funding streams. These projects cover a wide breadth of topics, including mental health, women s health, hip and knee replacement models of care and community care for the elderly. Each of these projects has the potential to significantly change lives by addressing an area of significant unmet need. An additional grant was awarded in conjunction with the RACGP Foundation. In addition to getting these exciting new projects underway, we were delighted to see the progress made by each of our other ongoing grants. Our research projects across each of our three grant streams (Health Services Research Grants, Translational Research Grants and Innovation Research Grants) were all extremely productive, generating highquality research publications and impactful conference presentations. The Innovation Research Grant team, led by Professor Ilana Ackerman, provided their final report during the year, making a compelling case for broader uptake and safe utilisation of shortstay models of care for hip and knee replacements in Australia while highlighting the barriers that need to be addressed to encourage broader adoption. Showcasing our wonderful research projects and their outcomes was a key focus this year, and we were pleased to present a variety of our funded research projects and results through the HSRAANZ conference, our webinar series and directly to our members through our Health Agenda email newsletter. By raising the profile of our funded research outcomes amongst our members, the public, and other key health stakeholders we hope to further the dissemination and uptake of more efficient, highquality and highvalue healthcare, and make it more accessible to all Australians. Further details about the various streams of the grant programs run by HCF Research Foundation during FY23 can be viewed in the HCF Research Foundation Year in Review Financial Year 20222023 document here: https://www.hcf.com.au/aboutus/hcffoundation/hcffoundationabout/hcffoundationreports