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 Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the business plan for Health Innovation Manchester (HInM) has now been approved by the HInM board. Additionally, the HInM business case has been acknowledged by the Greater Manchester Health & Social Care Partnership. The business case supports the initial set-up of Health Innovation Manchester, and has secured development funding for the recruitment of a CEO and for work around the change management process. We are very focused on achieving some of the quick wins set out in this case – targeting some of the disease-specific improvement work already in our portfolio.
The creation of HInM is being led by Rowena Burns, Chief Executive of Manchester Science Partnerships and Executive Chair of HInM, and is being supported by an executive steering group, which includes representatives from both GM AHSN and MAHSC.
We look forward to sharing more about Health Innovation Manchester's progress over the coming months.
Amanda Risino
Managing Director
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Funding available for innovations to improve health care
The Health Foundation, an independent charity committed to bringing about better health and health care for people in the UK, has £1.5 million available for up to 20 teams to test and develop innovative ideas to improve health care delivery in the UK. As part of the Innovating for Improvement programme, they are looking for projects that aim to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own health care.
The Health Foundation is particularly interested in applications from teams who will be applying an innovative use of data. Each team will receive up to £75,000 of funding, over 15 months, to support the implementation and evaluation of their project.
The deadline for applications is 12:00 noon on Tuesday 28 March 2017. Due to the popularity of this programme, the right is reserved to close ahead of this date if the programme is oversubscribed.
Find out more and apply
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Samantha Jones of NHS England's New Care Models programme pays a visit to GM AHSN
On Monday 20 February GM AHSN hosted Samantha Jones, Director of the New Care Models programme at our headquarters in Citylabs, Manchester. The visit included a presentation from Samantha, giving key updates about her programme of work, as well as several presentations from GM AHSN colleagues and partners, including:
- Jane Macdonald, Director of Improvement and Nursing at GM AHSN, who presented alongside Jenny Scott from the Manchester Cancer Vanguard
- Gary Leeming, Director of Informatics at GM AHSN and Stephen Dobson, Chief Information Officer at Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust, updating on the DataWell programme
- Dr Paula Bennett and Andrew Mullarkey from GM AHSN's Utilisation Management Unit, giving insights into new models of care in urgent and emergency care
- Dr Linda Magee, Executive Director of Industry & Wealth at GM AHSN and Robert Duncombe, Director of Pharmacy at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and Chair of the Cancer Vanguard speaking about GM AHSN's Industry & Wealth programme
Feedback from the event was extremely positive, with Samantha commenting on both the quality of the work and the passion and energy of the people involved.
Find out more about the New Care Models programme here.
Read the full story.
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Familial Hypercholesterolaemia campaign with the British Heart Foundation
GM AHSN has been working jointly with the UK's biggest heart charity, the British Heart Foundation, to raise awareness of the inherited condition Familial Hypercholesterolaemia. We are currently working on a project to improve the diagnosis and treatment of the condition, which is thought to affect as many as 6,000 people across Greater Manchester. Watch the clip above, which was shown on ITV Granada recently and features our patient representative, Zoe Meredith, talking about how the condition has affected her life, and the lives of her mother and grandmother.
Read the full story here.
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Landmark Ageing Conference held in Greater Manchester
The Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) held a landmark conference, on 16 February, which brought together a wide range of influential Greater Manchester leaders, world-leading academics and community sector innovators to discuss prospects for creating an age-friendly city-region.
The Greater Manchester Ageing Conference 2017, organised by the Greater Manchester (GM) Ageing Hub, was the first time an ageing conference has been held on a city-region level within Greater Manchester.
The Greater Manchester Ageing Hub is a collaboration between public, voluntary, community, social enterprise, and academic partners. The Hub works, as part of the GMCA and Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, to ensure Greater Manchester’s residents are able to live, work and retire in the city-region, while living as fulfilling lives as possible.
Watch a video summary of the conference here.
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Learning Matters North West Health and Care Awards 2017
Nominations close 12 noon Monday 10 April 2017
Voluntary Sector North West (VSNW) is leading Learning Matters 2017, a cross-sector award scheme and regional learning campaign. Developed in partnership with Health Education England working across the North West, this joint campaign recognises the contribution that adult learning makes to individual, community and economic wellbeing as well as the continued development of the health and care sector.
Through partnership working Learning Matters will emphasise the importance of developing and harnessing all talent. It will highlight the role and value of innovation. It will underpin a commitment to engage with and learn from patients, carers and the public.
Find out more or nominate someone for the awards.
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Early Diagnosis Industry Challenge - 22 February to 30 March 2017
The national Cancer Vanguard recently launched a unique and innovative opportunity for a select group of industry, academic or third sector partners to work on a project improving the early diagnosis of cancer.
Dr Linda Magee, GM AHSN’s Executive Director for Industry & Wealth, and Richard Deed, Technology Director at TRUSTECH will be assessing applications for the call, which launched 22 February and closes at 16.00 on March 30.
The aim of this challenge is to engage expertise from outside the NHS to undertake a small number of high impact projects (five to eight) which will ultimately lead to a tangible improvement in the earlier diagnosis of cancer in the NHS.
Find out more here.
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Supporting a digital solution to diabetes foot health
Entec Health Ltd, a Surrey-based healthcare innovation company, has successfully engaged via GM AHSN’s Innovation Nexus with two lead clinicians at Central Manchester University Hospitals Foundation Trust (CMFT).
Entec’s Silhouette® product enables rapid escalation and de-escalation of patients with diabetic foot ulcers to and from secondary care, and increases accuracy and objectivity of assessments through use of 3D wound imaging technology. This will reduce the number of follow-up appointments taking place in hospitals, by enabling remote review of patients’ wounds in their community.
Read the full story on our website.
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New opportunity from Healthier You: NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (NHS NDPP)
The NHS NDPP is a joint commitment between NHS England, Public Health England and Diabetes UK. They are seeking expressions of interest from providers and developers of existing health apps and online platforms for diabetes prevention, with the view to identify four or five apps or online platforms to be part of a digital pilot. The aim is to provide digital interventions to individuals at high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes across England. The programme will initially evaluate both the implementation of the digital interventions and the outcomes for individuals who will be accessing them across parts of England.
Expressions of interest must be submitted by Wednesday 15 March 2017, midday
More information and details of how to make an expression of interest.
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Developing national outpatient letter standards
As more care and a wider range of specialist services are delivered out of hospital, the importance of well-structured outpatient letters is essential to good communications between clinicians and patients. They are the main method of contact and communication between hospital staff and GPs and communicate to the patient a record of the consultation and decisions. They are often the sole record of the consultation held by the outpatient department and hospital.
The PRSB are carrying out a project to improve continuity of care by helping clinicians to communicate relevant information more quickly, reducing transcription errors by enabling re-use of key data in the GP system and producing better information for audit and research by carrying information in coded format, where appropriate.
Draft PRSB standards for outpatient letters have now been developed following an evidence review and a recent workshop held on 19th January 2017 with patients, carers and healthcare professionals. As a PRSB liaison member, GM AHSN would now like to invite you to participate in a consultation on these proposals. Your feedback at this stage will ensure that the resulting recommendations are practical and fit for purpose. We would be very grateful if you would complete this survey and circulate widely among your colleagues.
More information about this project.
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Utilisation Management unit RCN re-accreditation
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) awards accreditation to training programmes following a rigorous assessment process to ensure that any learning initiatives meet the RCN standards of excellence. The UM team have been successful in gaining continued RCN accreditation for the ‘Appropriateness of Care’ 5 day training programme.
Read the full story on our website.
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National Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Poster Competition 2017
Deadline: 16 March 2017
Do you have an innovative, measurable solution to a patient safety issue? Have you made a difference to quality of care?
Judges will be looking for examples of innovation, joint working and proven outcomes. If your entry is shortlisted you will be invited to create and print a poster for display at the Bristol Patient Safety Conference on 3rd May 2017 and will qualify for a discounted delegate rate of £149.
Apply online here.
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ABHI SEMINAR: Making value-based procurement a reality
23 March 2017 | FieldFisher LLP, London
The value agenda is high in importance as the NHS grapples to improve outcomes and control costs. However, procurement - a critical enabler - lags behind in delivering that strategic intent. A focus on short-term savings prevails.
ABHI's seminar will explore how value-based procurement goes hand-in-hand with value-based health care. By attending this event you will learn how value-based procurement can be achieved by:
- focusing on the right outcomes
- using different contracting approaches, and
- taking a strategic, whole-system view.
For more information and to book, click here.
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Bridging the Gap - Supporting Child Health Technology Development as a Clinical Industry Partnership
27th April | University of Liverpool in London
Co-hosted by the Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) and the Technology Innovation Transforming Child Health (TITCH) Network, a range of expertise is being brought together from across England from the Academic, Business, Clinical and Policy environments with interests in technology development for child health from medtech to digital technologies.
Find out more and register for the event
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Women into Leadership Healthcare
22 March 2017
Women represent an overwhelming majority of the healthcare workforce, yet they are significantly underrepresented in senior leadership positions. Join this event in Central London on March 22nd to discuss together how we can manage the challenges of modern leadership and help ensure we don't lose momentum in recognising and rewarding female leaders across the health and social care landscape.
Register now.
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Human Rights & The Role of Corporations: An ABHI/Norton Rose Fulbright Event
30 March 2017 | Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, London
ABHI is committed to helping the medical technology sector develop progressive standards and support members in understanding the latest developments. As such we have partnered with Norton Rose Fulbright to host a seminar on Human Rights on 29 March 2017.
The seminar will bring together a distinguished group of human rights experts along with industry practitioners from Medtech and wider to share their understanding, knowledge of latest developments and practical guidance on human rights due diligence informed by their personal experiences, academic studies and empirical research.
For more information and to book, click here.
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EU Falls festival: Developing Collaborations across Professions and throughout Europe
8th - 9th May 2017 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
The European Union Falls Festival brings together leading academics, researchers, health care practitioners, clinicians, industry representatives and key stakeholders from across the globe to celebrate best practice research and innovation in the multidisciplinary study and implementation of falls prevention in older people.
Find out more.
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The Future of Research, Innovation & Business-University Collaborations
London | Wed, 22nd March 2017
11.00am - 3.30pm
Attend this timely Westminster Briefing event to hear from BEIS, Innovate UK, HEFCE and others for an up-to-date brief on what the Government is doing. You will have a unique opportunity to hear directly from the policy makers and experts, address the challenges and discuss the future of research commercialisation & innovation.
Register here.
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Informatics for Health Congress
24-26 April 2017 | Manchester Central Convention Centre
Over three days an international audience of academics, health professionals and industry partners will share the knowledge, insights and experience that are fuelling the rapid advancement in informatics research for health science, health care, and economic growth in/around digital health. The varied and dynamic conference programme will include global thought leaders presenting alongside innovators in health data science. By blending academic rigour with the latest technological developments Informatics for Health 2017 will provide the academic bedrock needed to create a stimulating and challenging international congress.
Register here.
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Business of Science Conference
18 May 2017
Museum of Science and Industry
The Business of Science Conference will see leading experts take to the stage to engage and inspire industry, showing the important link between scientific discovery and commercialisation.
High-profile speakers include Sir Richard Leese, leader of Manchester City Council, and Richard Carter, managing director UK and Ireland for BASF.
For more information on the event, visit www.businessofscience.co.uk
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