Northern Innovation Showcase and Networking Event 2017: Adoption and Spread of Innovation

Northern Innovation Showcase and Networking Event 2017: Adoption and Spread of Innovation

Innovation Scout / Innovation Champion

Poster Competition

- Guidance and Entry -

12th October 2017, 9:30 – 16:00,Queen’s Hotel, City Square, Leeds, LS1 1PJ

The 2017 Northern Innovation Showcase event will bring together four AHSNs as a collaboration of Innovation Scouts, Innovation Champions and Q Fellows from different regions. The aim is to share their projects and experiences and facilitate better networking between the regions.

The Innovation Scout / Innovation Champion Network is a collective of healthcare professionals who have expressed an interest in new ideas, innovations, inventions, service improvement and seeing the latest best practice and technologies in action.

As part of this event, Innovation Scouts / Innovation Champions can submit posters to share and showcase the innovations that they and their colleagues have developed.

Each AHSN will have dedicated exhibition space for posters and a poster will be selected from each area as a winner (the North East and North Cumbria AHSN will also be awarding a cash prize to the winner).

Entry requirements:

A developed innovation that you have implemented (or are planning on implementing in your organisation in the very near future).
An innovation that is ready for sharing with other organisations
Ideally, you should have some evaluation / impact of the innovation (or a plan of how you will go about this)
Posters may include projects from an Innovation Scout / Innovation Champion themselves, or from any innovator within the organisation (if you are the innovator entering please ensure that your Innovation Scout / Innovation Champion is aware of your entry).

How to enter

Complete the ‘Entry Form’ to register your details and provide some brief details about the content of your poster. This will simply be used as an initial screen to ensure that we are showcasing innovations which are ready for adoption and spread (the overall theme of the event). If the proposed content meets the criteria you will be asked to provide a poster for the event.Please also read the ‘Competition Rules and Regulations’ and tick the box.
Submit the entry form below to your AHSN key contact (see contact details below).

Your poster should include the following information / headings:
Title
The Innovation (provide an overview of the innovation)
The Problem (what was the original problem that was identified which led to the innovation being developed?)
The Collaborators (if applicable – who or what was it that helped you to progress the innovation - this may include other healthcare professionals in your organisation, University colleagues, the voluntary sector, funding bodies, companies etc)
The Impact (include any evaluation that you have done or feedback you have collected)
The Next Steps (what are your plans for next steps, and / or what would you like from people to help you)
Contact details
Please include images and/or quotes to help bring your innovation to life

If you already have a poster designed that covers the above information then please feel free to submit this.

If you are producing a new poster from scratch, the design of the poster and how the information is presented is completely up to you. It can be done using any IT software package, or even hand drawn in your own way if you like to be creative!

If you need help with printing or design of your poster please contact your local AHSN lead and they may be able to offer help with this (see contact details below).

Deadlines and Key Dates

1 / Entry forms to be submitted to your local AHSN (see contact details below) / Monday 11th September 2017
2 / Entry forms will be reviewed / w/c 11th September 2017
3 / Confirmation sent (by email) to successful and declined applications / Friday 15th September 2017
4 / Conference takes place. Delegates to bring posters on the day. / Thursday 12th October 2017

Cautionary notes

*****Posters will be on display and shared with others therefore please be mindful of not disclosing information that you would not otherwise share in a public arena*****

*****Entry of ideas to this competition will count as public disclosure so please ensure that you assert Copyright on your poster and you are not presenting anything that is commercially sensitive*****

*****If you are not sure or need advice on intellectual property rights please contact your local AHSN (see contact details below)*****

Key AHSN Contacts

AHSN NENC - Rachel Turnbull

Yorkshire and Humber AHSN – Sophie Bates

The Innovation Agency (North West Coast AHSN) – Charlotte Hall

Greater Manchester AHSN –Paul Armitage

Poster Entry Form

AHSN:
Name of Innovator:
Job Title:
Organisation:
Department:
E-mail:
Telephone Number:
Address:
Name of Innovation Scout / Champion:
E-mail:

Abstract - Please provide a brief summary of your poster content to tell us what the innovation is and what benefit it has.

(up to 300 words)

Do you feel this innovation is ready for adoption elsewhere?

/ Yes No

Do you have any evidence of evaluation / impact? Please briefly describe.

(up to 300 words)

What assistance, if any, have you provided as an Innovation Scout / Innovation Champion? (Or if the innovator, what assistance, if any, have you had from your Innovation Scout / Champion?)

The following weighting will be used to assess your application:-

Innovation Description and Benefit(up to 5 marks)

Readiness for Adoption(up to 5 marks)

Evidence and Evaluation(up to 5 marks)

Competition Rules and Regulations

Any entries received after the closing date of Monday 11th September 2017 will not be accepted, and no discussion will be entered into. The Yorkshire & Humber AHSN, North East and North Cumbria AHSN, The Innovation Agency and Greater Manchester AHSN (hereafter referred to as ‘The Competition Organisers’), however, reserve the right to change the deadline. The Competition Organisers will make every effort to conform to these deadlines; but should a change be required, it will be communicated via email and on websites (where applicable).
You must be aged over 18 years and be an Innovation Scout / Innovation Champion employed by or working with an NHS organisation who is a member of one of The Competition Organisers to submit an entry to the competition.
Your application must be agreed to and fully supported by your organisation and innovator (if a different person from the Innovation Champion).
An individual or a team may submit one or more than one innovation to their Innovation Scout / Champion for consideration for the competition
Innovation Scouts / Champions may assist with the completion of the poster presentation entry form and complete a short section outlining how their work as an Innovation Champion has supported the innovator.
The competition prize money (where applicable) will be held by each respective AHSN and awarded to the appropriate Clinical Directorate, or specified provider (e.g. marketing specialist, developer, academic group, funding specialist, health economist etc.) who you have selected to undertake a defined bespoke work package to support your innovation where the expertise does not reside within your organisation as outlined in the entry form. The prize money must be ring-fenced for that purpose.
Decisions on all matters relating to this competition will be made by the judges and will be final. No discussion on these decisions will be entered into with competition entrants.
The Competition Organisers reserve the right to change or withdraw competition criteria at their discretion.
Entries may be withdrawn up until the time of the deadline.
The Competition Organisers employees or members of their families will not be eligible to enter.
The Competition Organisers take no responsibility for and makes no guarantee regarding the receipt of intact entries, and any loss is entirely at the entrant's own risk.
The Competition Organisers reserve the right to withhold any award or change its terms, conditions and rules without notice.
Entries will be assessed by The Competition Organisers for compliance with the entry requirements.
In certain cases The Competition Organisers may feel that they or other parties or organisations may be able to offer help to progress or add value to the innovation. In such cases, The Competition Organisers reserve the right to contact entrants and invite them, with no obligation, to discuss the proposition with The Competition Organisers and/or their partnering organisations.
Photographs and publicity may be arranged by The Competition Organisers during and after the awards ceremony and all competition winners must agree to participate.
By entering the competition you agree to be bound by these rules and regulations.

Please tick this box to show that you have read these rules and regulations and agree to be bound by them: