The Florence Nightingale Foundation
To expand the research scholarships programme for nurses, midwives and health visitors.

Skill: National Bureau for Students with Disabilities
Towards the cost of publishing and disseminating "Into Nursing and Midwifery", addressing careers and issues of fitness to practice in the context of anti-discrimination legislation.

Seaview Project
Health needs assessment for homeless people, asylum seekers, refugees and victims of violence.

The Robert Gordon University
Development and evaluation of a guide for obesity management for primary care practitioners.

Liverpool John Moores University
Towards an exploratory study on screening for post natal depression.

University of Nottingham
Multi-media resource for health and social care practitioners to facilitate the implementation of person-centred dementia care.

North Bristol NHS Trust
A controlled trial to assess the benefits of a nurse-led post-intensive care follow-up service.

St George's Hospital Medical School
Research to look at barriers to adequate blood pressure (BP) control in primary care & piloting of a nurse-led intervention to overcome them.

Research & Development Directorate
A qualitative study of the experience of patients with heart failure and the impact of community specialist nurses in self-management.

The Nurses Welfare Trust
Project Nurse in Crisis 2004-5 which employs advisers skilled in therapeutic intervention to help nurses return to work whose personal problems threaten their fitness to practice.

Help the Hospices
To help 500 hospice nurses continue their professional development and leadership skills.

The Queen's Nursing Institute
To pilot a major initiative to raise standards of community healthcare through the professional development of community nurses, nurse consultants and practitioners.

University of Plymouth
To identify instances and hindrances to inter-professional collaboration in out-of- hospital emergency care and from this develop and test models of collaboration.

Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and University of the West of England
An action research project aimed at improving mental health care for older people.

University of Sheffield
Research to explore the pain experiences of residents living in care homes and develop a package of care to be implemented by nurses and carers.

Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS)
Two year's pumps prime funding for a full-time Parkinson's Disease Nurse Specialist to ensure individually centred specialist nursing care for people with Parkinson's and their carers.

King's College London
An exploratory study into the perceptions of young people with cystic fibrosis and their professional carers as they transfer from paediatric to adult services.

University of Southampton
A research study to investigate the effect of reducing caffeine intake on urinary systems in women with overactive bladder syndrome.

University of Manchester
An exploratory study to observe nursing practice in the administration of psychotropic medication and an evaluation of clinical, nursing and patient outcomes following the delivery of a medication management course.

Lymphoma Association (LA)
A Lymphoma Association Clinical Nurse Specialist in an NHS Haematology Unit.

University of Warwick
A nurse led action research project examining end of life care between home, nursing homes and district hospitals.

Queen Margaret University College
To explore the challenges and issues associated with nurses and older people working in partnership in practice development work and form a better understanding of how to train older people and nurses to do so.

University of the West of England
An evaluation of work-based learning and its impact on leadership, education and improving practice.

Strode Park Foundation for Disabled People
Towards the cost of a Nurse Leader to design and implement a training programme to support their new rehabilitation service.

Universities of Norththumbria & Edinburgh
To fund a network for nurses/practitioners/researchers for the advancement of knowledge and practice in dementia, specifically concerned with wandering and its related behaviours.

Northumbria University
To determine from the perspective of children, families and professionals the value of nurse-led specialist services for young people with life-shortening conditions compared to that provided in an acute health service setting.

Central Manchester & Manchester Children's University Hospitals NHS Trust
A research assistant to co-ordinate, support and progress a project developing an instrument to measure CAMHS inpatient dependency.

Hospice of Hope Romania
A palliative care nurse to raise the standards in rural hospitals in care for the terminally-ill.

Foundation of Nursing Studies
Towards the annual programme of small grants to encourage nurses to develop practice and empower them to use their knowledge and evidence effectively to provide the best possible care for patients and carers.

Napier University
A study to evaluate whether reflective groups help nurses to become reflective practictioners.

St Marks Hospital Foundation
Funding the development of an Institute of Gastrointestinal Nursing.

Macmillan Cancer Relief
Towards the cost of the seminar programme for Macmillan nurses.

Kings Fund
Towards "Enhancing The Healing Environment", a programme where nursing and other staff use colour, light and design to brighten up their surroundings. Projects range from transforming waiting rooms to commissioning new pieces of art and sculpture.

Florence Nightingale International Foundation
Towards the cost of the first systematic investigation of the nursing workforce globally. The analysis aims to identify the policy and practice issues and solutions that should be considered by governments, international agencies, employers and professional associations.

The Nurses Welfare Trust
To help nurses, midwives and health visitors to get back to work aftera serious crisis.

John Grooms
To pilot a disability nurse specialist in Colchester Hospital to care for patients and train other staff in the hospital.