Dr Liz Mear, CEO of the Innovation Agency presents how to impress awards judges and introduces attendees to the support on offer from the Innovation Agency.
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The judges
• Bear in mind who the judges are and when
they will be assessing the applications
• Focus on what will make your application
stand out for them e.g. how did your project/
programme benefit service users
• Key into the things that will be on their mind –
improving quality of service, supporting staff,
reducing cost
• They like to learn from the applications
3. The application
• Needs to be clearly written, in good English,
without spelling mistakes
• Not repetitive
• Highlight benefits succinctly
• Include human interest stories/ quotes from
service users or staff
4. A perfect submission
Shows an impact on service
users’ lives
Demonstrates
innovation in its field
Demonstrates
financial resultsTells a powerful story
5. The interview
• Take a beneficiary who can tell the story e.g. service user or staff member
• Know the detail so you can answer questions
• A presentation doesn’t need to be on screen – bring equipment, visual aids
etc
• The judges are just like you – they work in service and want to see benefits
for service users
• Be ready to discuss the next steps for the issues outlined in your
application
• Reference any organisations you have worked with/ who have given you
insight into the issues you have been addressing
6. What not to do
• Use the phrase ‘there was no cost’ – all
achievements come with a cost even if this is time
rather than money
• Cram as much information into the application as
possible – be succinct, judges can get
overwhelmed
• Put too much information into supporting
documents – these are to support your application
but are not your application
• Conduct the interview over the phone, if at all
possible attend in person – the judges can get to
know you and see your enthusiasm
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Clinical Entrepreneurs
Opportunities for junior doctors to develop
their entrepreneurial aspirations during
their clinical training period
Launched May 2016 – 100 recruited
8 regional boot camps in coming year
including at Alder Hey in November
Alder Hey ‘bat cave’ to be Northern HQ –
Innovation Hub, funded by Innovation
Agency – ‘living lab’ and VR
Phase 2 Spring 2017
Recruitment of wider clinical specialties -
nurses/pharmacists/allied health
professionals
Northern HQ – the Alder Hey ‘bat cave’
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Dr Jing Ouyang
Dr Jing Ouyang – Foundation
doctor at Aintree has a prototype
Aergo wheelchair.
Uses airbags to help postural and
pressure management. Can be
operated via a mobile phone.
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17 Innovation Fellows – innovative health
technologies and services into action
National Innovation
Accelerator
Francis White spreading the use of
Kardia from AliveCor, the UK’s first
mobile heart monitor
Dr Lloyd Humphries
Patient Knows Best
Dr Penny Newman
Health Coaching
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15. NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA)
• Best in world, evidence
based innovations ready to
scale
Selects
• Highly skilled, passionate
individuals able to lead
innovation(s) nationally and
internationally
Recruits
• Bespoke, tailored support to
enable innovations to spread
rapidly
Offers
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Investment to support change
culture - Innovation Scouts
Champions of change, Creating a culture of innovation; part of the AHSNs
regional networks for co-creating new technologies and systems
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Matching innovations with those
who need them: the Innovation
Exchange
Platform for:
Innovations which have demonstrated impact
locally and are supported by NHS or social
care stakeholders in the North West Coast
Innovations which have demonstrated impact
in other regions and are endorsed by other
AHSNs
Digital innovations which match specific
needs to drive improvement in the
management of long term conditions
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EU Active and Health Ageing
Reference Site
o NWC now 3 star reference
site
o Next steps- develop
strategy, work programme,
governance. Work across
Northern Powerhouse.
o Twinning
o Six topic areas
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Supporting innovation centres
across the region
Ten centres all at different stages of development
and with distinct purposes:
Liverpool Bio Innovation Hub
Chorley Digital Hub
Lancaster Health Innovation Campus
The Centre of Integrated Health Science,
Chester
The Accelerator, Liverpool
Sensor City, Liverpool
Alder Hey Innovation Centre, Liverpool
NWC Genomics Medicine Centre
Liverpool Community Laboratories
Centre of Excellence in Infection Diseases
Research
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We enable companies to grow and support introduction of their products into the NHS
This delivers better outcomes for service users, reduces costs and creates jobs
Our services to industry - and to NHS innovators - cover the entire innovation pathway:
Single contact point: helping navigate the complex health system
Advice on issues e.g. evidence base, evaluation & market access
Promote the SBRI Healthcare programme
Signpost to local partners and regional & national funding sources
Focusing on proven innovations that meet defined local health needs ensures we support our economy, help keep people well and in work and generate growth by:
Increasing productivity
Stimulating inward investment
Supporting the export of UK products.
A pipeline of over 100 co-developed products that matched NHS needs
Over 20 already adopted and used in the NHS
These products are starting to impact patient care
The potential value to the NHS was independently evaluated by the Office of Health Economics with a value to the NHS of £1.5bn.
The economic impact of these investments:
Over 420 jobs created or safeguarded delivering an economic impact of over £33m for the UK economy.
When added to the private sector investment of £45m this shows the NHS funding has had real economic impact even at this early stage in the process.
One of the first discussions happened at Rethinking Health in Lancaster last year – a round table discussion with Prof Tony Young and people including Dr Neil Johnson; Professor John Goodacre and possibly others in the room or elsewhere in the event today.
25% of doctors completing foundation training in the UK each year do not immediately take up their specialist training posts and around 5% of junior doctors leave to pursue other opportunities. It is difficult for traditional clinical practice and training to keep pace with the drivers for change, and we need to engage these clinicians as future leaders of the NHS.
The Clinical Entrepreneur Training programme has been co-designed by NHS England and Health Education England to offer opportunities for junior doctors and the wider health professionals to develop their entrepreneurial aspirations during their clinical training period.
Jing is based in our hub. Sarah Fissler is in our hospital. 2 others are circling.Have got Tony young to make the batcave the HQ for the northern entrepreneurs and they are having an event with us in November.
a platform technology that provides dynamic postural and pressure management. We are currently adapting the technology as a seating device for patients in need of wheelchairs who cannot necessarily communicate or adapt to their postural needs.
he is exploring the technology in the context of diabetic shoes and patient mattresses to prevent pressure sores.
Jing is a Foundation doctor at Aintree who started work on his model while training at Imperial College Hospital.
We support the National Innovation Accelerator - 17 Fellows with innovative technologies or practices.
In its first year, the 17 fellows who joined the programme received support to take their high impact innovations to more than 345 NHS providers and commissioners, raised over £17m in funding and won 12 awards.
We support 3 Fellows – Francis White, Penny Newman and Lloyd Humphries.
Each year, the NIA looks for the best national and international evidence-based healthcare innovators. Another 8 Fellows are currently being recruited – the results of the applications will be announced in November 2016.
AliveCor’s Kardia™ Mobile is the world’s first mobile ECG that can instantly analyse and interpret heart recordings. The aim of AliveCor is to identify paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF), a leading cause of stroke.Kardia™ Mobile is embedded in the case of any smart phone (Apple or Android), allowing the user to capture a recording of their heart anytime, anywhere. Using the Kardia™ app, results are analysed on the spot, and can be shared with a doctor for an instant diagnosis.
Francis hopes the NIA will help make Kardia™ available to NHS patients across the UK.
Patients Know Best is an innovation that allows patients to hold all their medical information in a single record which they directly control.
This single record puts the patient at the centre of their care, empowering their health network and challenging traditional models of care.
Non-injectable arterial connector (NIC) – Maryanne Mariyaselvam
Maryanne, a Clinical Research Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Kings Lynn and at Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge and currently undertaking a Doctorate at the University of Cambridge in Patient Safety in the NHS brings the NIC innovation.
The Non-Injectable Arterial Connector (NIC) improves the safety of all patients requiring an arterial line in operating theatres and intensive care by preventing wrong route drug administration.
Although it does not happen often, if medication is accidentally given to a patient via the wrong route, there is potential risk of damage to a patient’s blood vessel and surrounding tissue and in extreme circumstances surgical amputation. The NIC is a definitive solution to the problem.
National annual call: supporting proven innovation to be adopted faster for patient benefit at reduced cost
The aim of the NIA is to deliver on the commitment detailed within the Five Year Forward View – creating the conditions and cultural change necessary for proven innovations to be adopted faster and more systematically through the NHS, and to deliver examples into practice for demonstrable patient and population benefit. The second round of applications will focus on three challenges based on population health needs:
Prevention
Early intervention
Long term condition management
£4m programme for North West coast with ourselves leading and hosting; Lancaster University having a key role, leading on industry research; developing workforce digital skils; building digital research capacity and linking with digital programmes such as the lancashire and cumbria test bed.
Part of a £20m programme across the north of england.
In the North West Coast the focus is on providing better coordinated health and social care to patients affected by alcohol misuse; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and epilepsy.
Funded by Dept of Health, commissioned by Northern Health Science Alliance.
We are developing a culture for innovation and improvement across our system by supporting communities of practice.
Innovation Scouts - designed to work with one with one another to understand challenges and cultural implications needed to increase the adoption of innovations. There is a scout in each of the organisations in our geography, we have up to 71 scouts in our region at present.
IGNITE – Cheshire & Merseyside Quality Improvement Network, started in May 2016 with 170 people working in QI in provider and commissioning organisations across our geography enthused about QI and patient safety
Q Initiative – In the design year of Q we recruited 10 Q fellows and we will be recruiting another cohort in February 2017 – aiming for 100, providing them with the opportunities to connect and support each other.
Evidence Champions – from October this year we are recruiting senior managers and GPs from commissioning organisations to undertake a bespoke PG certificate in Evidence for Commissioning, these delegates will also form a community of practice to share learning and broaden the reach of their learning in using evidence in commissioning processes.
Social media network – a community of health care people using social media to improve health care – launch on 13th December
Digital dragons – soon to be launched, commissioners and clinicians passionate about using innovation; start with a dragons den for businesses to present their innovations to them and be rated, event being organised in december; and we will then build a community of digital dragons who will help to try out new technologies and systems and give feedback to the developers.
The region has become a prestigious ‘Reference Site’ for the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing along with the other three areas of the North.
The bid for the recognition was led by the four Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) in the North including the Innovation Agency. The rating shows that the regions have demonstrated an innovative and comprehensive approach to healthy ageing with concrete evidence of the impact of their work on patients’ health.
In the North West Coast, we are involved in an NHS 'Test Bed' in Lancashire and Cumbria, in which the NHS has partnered with companies and social enterprises to support frail elderly people with dementia and other long term conditions, avoiding unnecessary admissions to hospital. And we are a partner in three other European programmes focussed on supporting healthy ageing through innovative technologies.
Alder Hey Alder Hey Children’s Hospital has built an Institute in the Park, in which we have invested pump prime funding of £280,000 to help attract a further £12 million of European funding.