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Issue 89  |  17 February 2022
KSS Health and Social Care

New Chief Exec in Sussex

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust's Council of Governors yesterday confirmed the appointment of Dr George Findlay to the role of Chief Executive

He will succeed Dame Marianne Griffiths, who is retiring after almost 14 years in charge across UHSussex and its predecessor organisations Western Sussex Hospitals (WSHT) and Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH).

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Double success in SBRI funding

We're delighted that two companies that KSS AHSN has been supporting were successful in securing SBRI Healthcare funding.

SBRI Healthcare, in partnership with the NHS Cancer Programme and the Accelerated Access Collaborative, has awarded a share of £9million in funding to eight winning innovators to help them further develop and deploy their late stage innovations to the frontline of cancer detection and diagnosis.

Open Medical, along with partners Kent Surrey and Sussex AHSN and Eastern AHSN, has been awarded funding for a late-stage innovative solution for the frontline of cancer detection and diagnosis.

Its innovation Pathpoint eDerma is a clinical pathway management system to help diagnose skin cancer and rapidly exclude patients without cancer from the diagnostic pathway. Using smart phones and tablets, dermoscopy images of the suspected skin cancer can be reviewed and triaged immediately, streamlining the patient pathway from referral to diagnosis and treatment.

And  PinPoint Data Science was successful with its artificial intelligence cancer detection test that allows clinicians to ‘red flag’ high-risk patients and has been validated in retrospective assessments of 147,000 patients.

It was first introduced in Leeds following a collaboration with the Yorkshire & Humber AHSN, the Leeds Academic Health Partnership, the West Yorkshire Cancer Alliance and the University of Leeds.

This latest funding will see the technology being rolled-out across other areas in England with support from the AHSN Network, Kent Surrey Sussex AHSN and the Innovation Agency.

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Theme for Q Exchange announced

The Q Exchange, a participatory funding programme with grants of up to £40k, has released its latest theme, with funding available for projects that address:
  • supporting service change, in particular the opportunity and need to enable care at home or in the community​
  • focusing on the role digital technology can play in staff wellbeing. Staff-facing technology is within this scope, as well as enhancing the workforce’s experience of technology.
  • focusing on the digital and improvement communities, for example looking at sharing skills and perspectives between these groups.
In order to apply a Q Community member must be part of the application process. Kent Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network has a number of active Q Community members, and is keen to speak with, and potentially offer support to, local health system teams interested in collaboratively progressing an improvement project. 

Contact jill.owens@nhs.net to discuss your application. 

Finalists - Health Tech Team of the Year

The work of the Digital Transformation Team, Clinical Systems Team and IT Team at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) has been recognised in the Health Tech Newspaper (HTN) Now awards by being announced as finalists in the Health Tech Team of the Year category.

HTN Now Awards share and celebrate innovations, teams and health tech suppliers that have made a difference throughout the year. The MTW teams submitted a shared entry for the work undertaken during 2020/21 which included the roll out of Windows 10, Allscripts Sunrise Electronic Patient Records (EPR) and the bed management system TeleTracking, as well as ongoing work to make MTW a PaperLite organisation.

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Royal Surrey awarded best performing Trust in study to help gall bladder patients

A Royal College of Surgeons study has recognised Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust as the best performing Trust among 25 other UK centres for its treatment of patients suffering from acute gall bladder problems, and for having the shortest wait times for patients from diagnosis to surgery at just under three days.

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News

Open and honest communication is essential for patient safety

Professor Bee Wee CBE, National Clinical Director for End of Life Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement, has written an insightful blog on how open and honest communication is essential for patient safety. 

The piece explores the personal and professional impact of caring for dying people, which is further explored in a new report from the AHSN Network. 

Read the blog and download the report

Elective recovery plan: what you need to know

NHS England recently published the national delivery plan for tackling the Covid-19 backlog of elective care. 

The plan sets some clear ambitions and targets to recover the now substantial backlog of care, which sits at the highest number of people waiting to receive planned NHS care since records began in 2007. 

NHS Confederation has created a briefing that summarises the key points from the plan and analyses what it means.

Read the briefing

New FeNO in Asthma elearning is available

FeNO (Fractional exhaled Nitric Oxide), is a test for measuring the amount of Nitric Oxide in the exhaled breath of patients. The results of the test can help with the diagnosis of asthma and indicate which medications will work best for them. 
 
Developed for primary care professionals, the latest elearning module (Module 2) provides an enhanced description of what FeNO is and how it can be used in the diagnosis of asthma, with case examples covering a spectrum of clinical scenarios. You can read more about the FeNO elearning resources, including how to access them, by visiting the programme page
 
Healthcare professionals who are interested in the FeNO elearning modules can also learn about them from a clinical champion in the virtual FeNO Learning Collaborative on Tuesday 15 March. Hosted by Wessex AHSN, read about the event and register for a place now.
Industry

Key lessons in making your innovation a success

Alastair Kirby, an Industry and Technology Navigator at KSS AHSN, has been writing about the key lessons that can support the successful adoption of innovations across government. 

In this blog he considers a range of points, including why it's so important to understand the landscape you're working in, and the power of seeing potential customers and users as innovation partners. 

Read the blog here

Can you help the Digital Health industry cut red-tape?

It can be hard to know if your product needs to meet Medical Devices regulation. And if it does, meeting compliance can be complicated, taking time and money. 

NHSX moves on

Following news that NHSX has joined colleagues from the Improvement Directorate, Innovation, Research and Life Sciences and NHS Digital to form the Transformation Directorate at NHS England and NHS Improvement, its CEO Matthew Gould reflects on what NHSX has achieved, and sets out how they will continue the mission to drive the digital transformation of the NHS and social care.

Read Matthew's blog

Supporting industry to work with the NHS

Our latest animation explains how we can help bridge the gap between industry and the NHS. 

It talks about the importance of having a clear value proposition, the need to generate evidence, and how the AHSNs can support innovators - with products and services that match NHS priorities - through these stages and on to national adoption.

You can watch the video here or contact our industry engagement team for more information. 

Resources for innovators

Our colleagues in the AHSN Network Innovation Exchange have put together a package of some of the key resources for innovators that are available through the AHSN Network.

The guides, tips and toolkits cover topics such as:
  • Business case development
  • Market readiness
  • Evidence
  • Adoption and spread

Find out more 

Migrant Mental Health Community of Experience: Unaccompanied Asylum Seeing Children Mapping Report published

On Thursday 10 February 2022, ARC Kent, Surrey and Sussex in collaboration with KSS AHNS and Kent County Council, hosted a community of experience concentrating on migrant mental health. The focus was to present research, hear from those with lived experience, share experiences and identify the gaps in research regarding unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and female migrants.

Find out more and download the report

Alcohol, dementia, and alcohol related brain damage: Key messages for services

In December, the Living Well with Dementia team at NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent, Surrey and Sussex (ARC KSS) and colleagues from the Kent and Medway Partnership Trust, hosted a Dementia and Alcohol Community of Practice. The event was held to share findings from an ARC KSS PhD student's extensive, first year, evidence synthesis, and explore the implications of alcohol and dementia, and alcohol related brain damage (ARBD) for individuals and service.
 
The key messages from this event have been summarised and are available to download here.

Due to the high level of interest in this area, we are planning to hold a follow up community of practice. For more information please contact Myles Godfrey, ARC KSS Implementation Research Assistant.

Pincer training 

Various dates to the end of March 2022 - online 


KSS AHSN has released a series of training dates for the Pharmacist-led INformation technology intervention for reducing Clinically important ERrors (PINCER) system. 

Action Learning Set 2 - Review results and generate an action plan, runs from February 8 to March 1 
Action Learning Set 3 - Review progress, problem solving and lessons learnt, runs from March 3 to March 30. 

Dementia Research Conference 2022 

23 and 24 February - online 


Two days of fascinating talks on the latest in dementia research hosted by Prof. Naji Tabet, Centre for Dementia Studies at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. 

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RCN Clinical Research Nursing Conference 2022 

24 March 2022, 9.00 - 16.30 - online 


This dedicated event for Clinical Research Nurses will look to the future of clinical research nursing, with speakers from across the UK sharing and celebrating achievements and best practice, with networking opportunities, patient perspectives and exploring current topics for the research nursing workforce. 

Find out more and book 

We hope you enjoyed Collaborate, if you’ve got anything you’d like to share please get in touch.

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