Dear Colleague,
This month our ICHP Snapshot brings you news of award winners, delivery of medication in safer ways, establishment of new partnerships, blogs featuring cake, a film from our Innovation Healthcare Summit and our latest Tweets...
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ICHP learners win awards for their innovation
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Two attendees of our "Practical course for innovation adoption in healthcare settings", held in partnership with Buckinghamshire New University, have won awards for innovations they have developed in their day-to-day roles.
Samantha Unamboowe, Library Manager at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, recently developed an Innovations Database for the Trust, which has now won the Sally Hernando Award for Innovation in NHS Library and Knowledge Services, a prestigious national award for library services. The database holds the results of projects and research undertaken by Trust staff, so that this information can be shared with colleagues more easily.
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Since winning the award, she has also been approached by other Trusts who are interested in replicating the Database.
A second attendee of the course, Melissa Rochon, quality and safety lead for surveillance at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, is also part of a team who won a gold at the OneTogether awards in Birmingham for their Photo at Discharge scheme. The scheme involves giving a patient a pack on discharge containing a colour photograph of their surgical wounds along with aftercare advice. As a result of the scheme, re-admissions for surgical site infection (SSI) have been reduced, releasing up to 336 bed days per year. Read more...
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Delivering medication in a safer way for patients
ICHP has been helping clinical teams across North West London evaluate and take up the non-injectable Arterial Connector (NIC), a new piece of equipment which aims to stop accidental administration of medication into patients’ bloodstreams, prevent bacterial contamination and also prevent blood spillage during sampling. Five Trusts in North West London have placed orders for a total of 1,775 NICs so far, which will benefit approximately 500 patients and currently be procured at no cost via the Innovation technology Tariff. Read more...
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New Atrial Fibrillation Budget Impact model published
This will support commissioners to measure the value in identifying and treating patients with AF, as well as the potential savings of new treatment interventions. The model uses published data of primary care performance, QOF targets and prevalence estimates to identify optimal goals for AF management, help commissioners to create realistic business plans for treating the condition. It helps users to estimate the budget impact of interventions within a CCG or AHSN footprint, and a model for Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) footprints will follow shortly. Read more...
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ICHP joins AVIA, uniting US and UK innovation best practice
We’re pleased to announce that ICHP is the newest member of AVIA, the leading network for health systems seeking to innovate and transform by unlocking the power of digital.
We are the first international member to join AVIA. We will work together with the network to address strategic healthcare challenges that span geographies, including behavioural health and outcome-based care. By joining AVIA, ICHP can now collaborate with its 25+ member health systems in the United States to marry the best ideas from the UK and the US for its members. Read more...
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How to have your patient safety cake and eat it too
Dame Jacqueline Docherty, Chair of ICHP’s Patient Safety Programme Board, reflects on patient safety achievements in 2017 and introduces our programme for this year. She explains how experience shows that in patient safety you can have your cake and eat it and that patient safety does not necessarily have to be expensive. Read more...
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Making care safer for patients - the North West London way
Melissa Rochon, Quality & Safety Lead for Surveillance at the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, blogs for us about the two awards her team and Trust won at the 2017 HSJ Patient Safety Awards, and how ICHP helped her to create the winning submissions. Read more...
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ICHP Innovation in Healthcare Summit
Around 200 people attended or lived streamed our summit on Monday 11 December 2017 at the RHS Lindley Hall in London. It focused on a range of perspectives on innovation in healthcare. The event was hosted in partnership with the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) and Imperial College’s IGHI (Institute of Global Health Innovation).
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Q Community Welcome Event
This month we partnered with Health Innovation Network South London and The Health Foundation to welcome over 100 new members to the Q Community. It was an excellent opportunity to bring all new members together to meet each other while immersing themselves in the Q Community. Read more...
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World Summit
We are able to offer partners a 20% discount to the 2018 World Medical Innovation Forum, held on April 23-25, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Forum is a global gathering of more than 1,000 senior health care leaders and was established to respond to the intensifying transformation of health care and its impact on innovation, and focuses on the advancements and opportunities of Artificial Intelligence. Forum keynoters will include the CEOs of NVIDIA, Novartis, Nuance, Vertex, Philips, Siemens Healthcare GNS Healthcare, Wolters Kluwer Health and dozens of others.
Register for your discounted tickets here. You will be directed to the 2018 World Medical Innovation Forum registration website. Click the green register button and the Full Registration type will appear as discounted 20%.
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We currently have vacancies for health economists, health analysts and innovation advisors. Don't miss your chance to join us.
Want to find out more about working with us?
We are hosting an ICHP recruitment information evening for medics on Tuesday 6 February, 2018 at 30 Euston Square. The evening, 6.30pm- 9pm, is primary aimed at doctors but all are welcome. It is being organised in partnership with Medic Footprints, a doctor-led, community driven, dynamic organisation promoting wellbeing and a diverse breadth of careers for doctors beyond conventional clinical practice. Places are very limited, so book early to guarantee a place.
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Thanks for reading the latest edition of Snapshot.
We're always on the look out for latest news or information.
Please do get in contact.
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