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Safer, high quality care

Better patient experience

Improved health Value for money

Real influence More accessible services

Both events focused on

bringing together key

stakeholders to share

knowledge and understanding;

to speed up the spread and

adoption of proven innovations

and make new ideas a reality

more quickly, thereby

achieving better and more

productive outcomes for

patients.

NHS East Midlands’ first

regional innovation showcase

event was a huge success.

More than 250 delegates from

healthcare, education, industry

and the voluntary sector came

together at Loughborough

University’s Innovation Centre

on 13 November to hear

inspirational guest speakers,

take part in interactive

workshops, and learn how

innovation in other fields can

help to deliver excellence in

healthcare.

The day-long event provided a

platform to showcase

innovative practice from a

range of industries where

excellence has been achieved

and to demonstrate what the

future of innovation could look

like. Examples ranged from

technical devices to changes in

working practices and with

improved patient experience

programmes, all focusing on

enabling the region to improve

the quality of care for NHS

patients.

Demonstrations and

workshops offered delegates

exclusive insight into how to

achieve success through

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SHARED IDEAS: Social Care innovators (L-R Dave Miles, Kelly Sharpe and Kate Fisher) of Nottingham City Council discuss tactics and experiences

Meeting of minds proves a success sharing skills and experience.

Leading players in the field,

such as our local innovation

hub - NHS Innovations East

Midlands, 3M Healthcare,

Tunstall Healthcare Group,

IBM, NESTA and Rolls Royce

were key contributors.

This event built on the first

national healthcare EXPO

event in June.

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GATHERING PACE: The region’s Pacesetters projects use

innovation to promote equality and diversity throughout the NHS

FOOD FOR

THOUGHT:

The event enabled

news to be shared

about award-

winning projects,

such

as Nottingham

University

Hospitals NHS

Trust’s’ low

carbon/local food

and Medilink

Bus Service.

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Dr Kathy McLean, Medical Director and

Lead Director for Innovation at NHS

East Midlands, says: “We see

innovation as a key catalyst in pursuing

the goal of increased quality in

healthcare.”

“We hope to achieve these results by

bringing new ideas into practice more

quickly.”

“It’s our aim to do this by encouraging

innovative thinking and practice across

healthcare in the East Midlands for the

benefit of the patients we serve.

“We aim to achieve this by engaging

and supporting clinicians and other

healthcare staff, together with the

experience and skills from

professionals in industry and

universities”.

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TALKING POINT: Attendees were inspired by sharing a wide-range of innovation experiences and examples of

best practice

ADDRESS: Kathy

McLean, Medical

Director and Lead

Director for

Innovation at NHS

East Midlands

TIPS: Delegates picking up tips at the Innovators’ World Café,

during the Ash Green Nutritional Toolkit presentation.

IDEA SWAP: EMAS showcased its innovations and explained

how they have improved patient care.

KEY SPEAKER:

Andy King, Deputy

Director, Innovation,

Department of Health,

addressed the event

Innovation in health

care and adopting ideas

from elsewhere is essential if we

are to meet the growing

challenges of an ageing

population, the increase in

prevalence of chronic disease

and health inequality, and rising

public expectations of improved

healthcare delivery.

To find out more about the Regional Innovation Fund, visit:

http://www.tin.nhs.uk/east-midlands-regional-innovation-fund

To find out more about the East Midlands’ journey to

excellence visit: http://www.excellence.eastmidlands.nhs.uk/

To find out more about the national Innovation EXPO, visit:

http://www.healthcareinnovationexpo.com/

If you want to know more...

Anthony Kealy,

Improvement and Efficiency

Director at NHS East

Midlands, explains how

innovation is key to

delivering the QIPP agenda

The NHS High Quality

Care for All report set out

a vision for making innovation

central to the NHS. Its goal is

to exploit new ideas to

improve quality and increase

productivity. Key to achieving

this is the requirement to

challenge everything we

do in healthcare, and

every aspect of service

delivery.

I believe the Quality,

Innovation, Productivity

and Prevention (QIPP)

agenda has a crucial

role in delivering

improved models of care

which increase staff

productivity through

innovation, to deliver the

highest quality of

patient care.

Looking to the future

‘‘‘‘

‘‘‘‘

We must ask ourselves: Is what

we are doing efficient? Can we

do it better, to improve patient

care, and to make resources go

further? It is only by challenging

existing, accepted practices that

we can ensure truly

world-class healthcare.

‘‘‘‘

Bernie Stocks, Head of Innovation and Improvement at NHS East

Midlands, explains how innovation funding is helping to improve working

practice and deliver quality of patient care.

SCREEN TIME Mr Oko, ENT Consultant at United Lincolnshire

Hospitals NHS Trust, shows his Clinical Services Manager, Yavis Lalloo the latest in sleep apnoea technology, an interactive sleep kiosk made by Jayex.

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ran throughout the day: one

focussed on how 3M keeps

innovation alive and another on

Rolls Royce working with the

NHS in Derby to find similarities

reducing human error in building

jet engines and managing Renal

Disease.

Dedicated clinics offered expert

advice on intellectual property

and product development, and a

“meet the innovators” café

allowed innovators to share

learning from their innovation

journeys.

IBM’s workshop focussed on

developing smarter healthcare

to address costs, improve

operational effectiveness and

achieve better quality and

outcomes.

There were also bite-sized

innovation masterclasses from

the NHS Institute for Innovation

and Improvement to ensure that

health staff deliver best added

value for patients.

GREAT IDEAS: Attendees were keen to tap into others’ experiences and skills

Working it out

The East Midlands EXPO

allowed delegates to network,

sharing ideas and best practice.

An exhibition area showcased a

range of healthcare-related

innovations from the five health

communities in the East Midlands

local industry and innovation

support organisations. Private

sector companies also exhibited,

including Tunstall Healthcare

Group, 3M Healthcare and CSC.

The region’s NHS Innovation Hub

was on hand to advise those

seeking to make their ideas a

reality and to showcase

successful innovation case

studies in practice. Workshops

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A closing address

by Andrew

Kenworthy

(Chief Executive,

NHS Nottingham

City and one of

the region’s two innovation

Chief Executive sponsors)

focused on the key role of

innovation in ensuring world

class healthcare.

Andrew noted:

• At present there is

significant clinical variation in

services being received by

patients. This is evidence of

poor quality and is both

unacceptable and unaffordable.

• All health organisations

The success of the

East Midlands

Innovation EXPO

has led to plans for

a Mental Health

Innovations EXPO in

2010/2011, a

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If (WIBGI) design

event for Venous

Thrombo-Embolism

(VTE) and looking at

how CLAHRCS can

help the delivery of

the Next Stage

Review.

must embrace the innovation

agenda – not only to improve

quality but to remain viable.

• Quality is the overarching

principle which must drive the

innovation agenda.

• Change has to be informed

by the real experience of

patients and their carers and

must respond to their needs.

• Organisations must focus

on how to reduce the time from

ideas to delivery on the ground –

our implementation processes

must be more rigorous.

• Change must be owned

and driven at the most senior

level in the organisation.

Building on EXPO success

The closing address

LEARNING FROM EXPERTS:

The region’s Innovation Hub offer

their expertise on making innovative

ideas a reality.

IDEAS SHARED TO DRIVE UP QUALITY: Discussions took place throughout the day on reducing the time

from development to delivery and driving up quality.

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