Innovation huddles
This year’s expo features ‘innovation huddles’, each covering one of the three event themes in more detail.
The huddles will be an important part of the Expo allowing delegates to share ideas, best practice and develop opportunities for future work.
See the descriptions below to find out more about our ‘huddles’ on
- Medicines optimisation
- Digital Innovation
- Out of hospital care for older people
Digital Innovation in Healthcare
Introduction
The Digital Innovation huddle will be an important part of the Expo allowing delegates to share ideas, best practice and develop opportunities for future work between stakeholders.
Digital technologies have the potential to deliver big benefits to patients and help overcome some of the significant challenges facing the NHS. Expo 2016 will profile some of the areas where digital innovations are making a big difference across KSS (and beyond) including the following themes:
•sharing and interpreting data and patient information
•tele-health
•health apps
•assistive technologies
•computer modelling
•clinical decision support
•use of smart devices.
Overview
The huddle will start with the presentation of a case study showcasing the use of digital technology at UCLH in the delivery of care.
This will be followed by a further presentation on:
“The doctorless patient: What role should digital innovation play in healthcare provision which is high quality, value for money and patient focussed? What are the challenges to achieving the optimal balance between the use of digital technology and the clinician in delivering care and how can these be overcome?”
An open debate will follow facilitated by Jim Dawton (Design Consultant).
Case Studies being presented as part of the huddle
Digital Quality Improvement: University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (Presented by Thomas Keen, Project Manager, and colleagues)
Digital Quality Improvement (QI) is the product of a partnership between University College London, University College London Hospital and the University of Zaragoza. Each was wrestling with the question of how to engage patients and clinicians in following proven best practice for major elective and emergency surgery to deliver better outcomes. To date, the app has been used successfully with 80 colorectal cancer patients at UCLH. The app is now being adapted to other surgical specialties, and three further hospitals are piloting the app in the UK.
Improving out-of-hospital care for older people
Introduction
Over the past few months we’ve engaged with our stakeholders and members to shape and inform our Living Well for Longer (LWfL) programme. A significant focus for the programme is supporting the shared ambition across our communities to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions for older people and, to that end, consider new and innovative models of care to help achieve this goal.
The care home sector is facing a number of serious challenges: the impact of the introduction of the national living wage next year, the reduction in social care budgets, and difficulties around staff retention and recruitment. However, care homes play a vital role in the health and social care system looking after over 400,000 people in the UK.This huddlewill delegates to share ideas, best practice and develop opportunities to improve the way care homes work with other services to improve out-of-hospital care for older people.
Overview
This session will look at how we can strengthen our valuable care home community, improve links between care homes and health services, and consider the future role of care homes. We will look at the extent to which their function within the wider health economy needs to change to contribute to reducing the number of hospital admissions. The huddle will cover the following three themes:
- The Care Home Model – what, why and how should we be developing our care homes to reduce hospital admissions and contribute positively to the health and wellbeing of residents.
- The Care Home Workforce - using the information captured from The Centre for Workforce Intelligence Report, Forecasting the Adult Social Care Workforce, we are asking the question ‘What needs to change in order for residential care to be a career of choice’
- The role of innovation and technology in delivering care home services that are integrated with other health and social care services
Case studies being presented as part of the huddle
- Anna Koshika, Head of Health, Centre for Workforce Intelligence
- Ernie Graham, Care Home Owner
Medicines Optimisation
Introduction
The medicines optimisation huddle will be an important part of the Expo allowing delegates to share ideas, best practice and develop opportunities across four key themes. Medicines optimisation is a key national priority with regional work being undertaken by both Kent Surrey Sussex AHSN and its Patient Safety Collaborative networks.
Overview
There will be four themes in the huddle, with participants taking part in discussions on all four areas:
1)Polypharmacy
2)Medicines reconciliation
3)Medicines related incidents and report
4)Reporting in primary care
Each theme will be supported by a case study presentation used to explore the scale and scope of each area. Each presentation will illustrate the issues at play and how these might be addressed. Table discussions will be supported by questions for each theme and will provide an opportunity to discuss the relevance of issues presented and how they might be overcome in a local setting.
Case studies being presented as part of the huddle
- Polypharmacy – Liz Butterfield, Polypharmacy Pharmacist Project Lead, KSS AHSN
- Medicines reconciliation – Chetan Shah, Associate Director - Medicines Reconciliation Project, NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (TBC)
- Medicines related incidents and alerting – Carina Livingstone, Medication Errors Workstream Lead, KSS PSC
- Reporting in primary care – Sabina Khanom, Patient Safety Lead (Primary Care), Patient Safety Domain, NHS England (TBC)
15 December 2015