Health Innovation North West Coast

Three of the leaders of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System talk about what needs to be done to improve health and wellbeing in the region. Chief Officer, Dr Amanda Doyle OBE; Executive Director of Transformation, Talib Yaseen OBE; and Executive Medical Director, Andy Curran talk about the area's challenges and the opportunities created through cross-sector collaborations.    F...

When six year old Leah Bennett was found to have a tumour which wrapped around her spine, arteries and organs it was described by surgeons in three centres as ‘impossible’. We hear from Leah, her dad Stephen and Alder Hey paediatric surgeon Joanne Minford how the impossible became possible, with the help of a 3D model – and a huge team at Alder Hey, including a vascular specialist from Liverpool U...

Aaron Cummins, CEO of University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay talks about his leadership tactics. 

Innovators describe the changes they've made which have reduced unplanned admissions and emergencies for patients with long term respiratory conditions.  The interviewees, who were speakers at the Innovation Agency's 21st Ecosystem event, are: Dr Sarah Sibley of Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital; Katie Burnett of Health Education England; Dr Jennifer Hoyle of Greater Manchester Strategic Clinical...

Janet Davies, Programme Lead, Technology Enabled Care, Healthy Lancashire and South Cumbria @JanetDavies1 An NHS Test Bed in Lancashire and South Cumbria shows that a combination of digital and traditional care for respiratory patients can be highly effective. However, one size does not fit all, patients benefit most from personalised care plans, and giving patients information in a variety of way...

Dr Sarah Sibley, Clinical Lead Community Respiratory Service, Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust @DrSarahSibley1 Estimates suggest that the lives of up to 234 patients with respiratory disease in Cheshire and Merseyside could be saved each year by doing things slightly differently. Physician associates add flexibility to the workforce and can help in both the primary and secondary sett...

Kate Burnett, Head of School, Physician Associates Scheme, Health Education England @NHSHEE_Nwest The health service struggles to value and empower its workforce, but a new breed of healthcare professional – the physician associate – may be at least part of the solution. Physician associates work to the medical model and the skills and attitude they bring may deliver tangible improvements in care.

Paul McGinness, Director, Storm ID  @paulmcginness Working with the NHS in the Glasgow area, Storm ID’s artificial intelligence monitoring system aims to deliver supported self-management for patients and meaningful data to the care team. The aim is to create a continuous service that prevents one hospital readmission per patient per year.

Dr Julia Reynolds of the Innovation Agency describes some of the innovations in respiratory care introduced in the North West Coast, including an NHS Test Bed to explore technology that supports COPD patients; and the challenge to ensure the best technology is widely adopted.

Dr Jennifer Hoyle, Consultant and Occupational Lung Disease Lead, Northern Care Alliance More than a quarter of all COPD admissions in Greater Manchester are for flu. Dr Hoyle and her colleagues explored how to overcome the barriers to taking the flu vaccination and launched a project to promot uptake in secondary care settings. The project is proving so successful the team now plans to extend it...

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Dr Binita Kane, Health Innovation Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, speaking at the Innovation Agency's 21st Ecosystem event.  The devolution project in Greater Manchester allowed for a reassessment of priorities. Health Innovation Manchester worked with health and care and industry partners to determine those priorities: the system agreed that a radical shift was needed i...

Lisa Slack, Head of Quality, Contracts and Safeguarding Adults, Lancashire County Council @LancashireCC The county council’s quality strategy aims to ensure there is equitable choice of high-quality provision and an increase in ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ care homes: that requires effective leadership and improved relationships with providers.

Nathan Downing, Lead Associate, Business Strategy and Service Transformation at TSA, and Gerry Hodgson, CEO of software company Cascade3d @TSAVoice Nathan Downing says the TSA is the representative body for technology enabled care (TEC) services. One of its guiding principles is to focus on people’s needs and how technology can meet them, rather than focus on the capabilities of the technology its...

Colin Capper, Head of Research Development and Evaluation, Alzheimer’s Society @CapperColin Involving care homes in research may help reduce the lag between breakthroughs in the lab and the adoption of new technology on the front line. We also hear about Jelly Drops, sweets that contain 90 per cent water that can keep people with dementia hydrated.

Rachael Forbister, TECS Programme Manager @RForbister A number of initiatives, including the introduction of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) assessment in care homes, and the use of the ‘blue box’ toolkit, has prompted a significant fall in the number of non-elective hospital admissions in Sunderland.

Peter Almond, Programme Manager, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust  @Mersey_Care While telehealth has only recently been introduced in the Mersey Care area, patient-reported outcomes are promising: there has been a 40 per cent reduction in the need to visit hospital or a GP. Now a new model of provision sees community matrons, care home staff and GPs joining forces to deliver better care. 

Alison Smith, RN, and Emma James, RN, Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust @wirrallct Teletriage is a 24-hour system offering clinical support to care homes. Its benefits are clear, and include a 78 per cent reduction in NHS 111 calls from care homes. Care home feedback has also been positive, with 93 per cent of staff saying its use has improved the care experience for residents.

ECO 19: Care closer to home Alan Davies, Director of Digital, Innovation Agency @innovationnwc

Una Davey, Network Project Manager, ECHAlliance @una_davey

Dr Masood Nazir, GP and Associate CCIO for Primary Care Digital Transformation Programmes, NHSX  @Masood_Online