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‘innovating for excellence’ - our vision

innovating for excellence brochure

Our regional clinical vision as set out in ‘From Evidence to Excellence’, is to create a stronger health system that is evidence-based, patient-centred, safe, high quality and championed by clinicians.

To achieve this, we are developing a coherent, over-arching quality strategy that will encompass;

  • Clinical leadership development

  • Service improvement expertise and capacity

  • Support and incentives for innovation

  • Productivity and value for money

  • Data analysis, interpretation and benchmarking

We see innovation as a key catalyst to pursue the goal of increased quality. We will maximise the benefit of research and service improvement by supporting the diffusion and adoption of innovation by all organisations for the benefit of patients.

For more information on innovation in the NHS in the East Midlands please click on the titles below.


 

Building the foundations for innovation

In April 2009, SHAs were given a new duty to promote innovation. To fulfill this duty, we have put in place a number of key building blocks to support and incentivise innovation.

  • Building on the Regional Clinical Vision, from Evidence to Excellence,  principles of co-production, two Chief Executive sponsors for innovation have been appointed: Peter Homa and Andrew Kenworthy. Peter Homa is Chief Executive of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and Andrew Kenworthy is Chief Executive of NHS Nottingham City and NHS Nottinghamshire County. Each organisation in the region has nominated a Board-level and operational lead for innovation who will work with the SHA to further develop our innovation strategy.

 

  • We are using the new Regional Innovation Fund to increase the quantity, spread and speed of innovation, improve quality and increase productivity. there are 30 successful projects in total.

 

  • We are working with PCTs to agree a small set of consistent quality and innovation metrics to be included in contracts.

 

  • Through our East Midlands Quality Observatory, we have agreed key data sets to enable PCTs and other organisations to benchmark their outcomes and improvements locally and nationally.


  • We are working closely with all major stakeholders in health and social care, industry, education, the voluntary and third sectors to develop clear priorities for action, identify key deliverables and agree measures for success. 

 

 

Annual Innovation Reports

As part of the SHA’s duty to promote innovation we have produced our first Annual Innovation Report which includes details of the key activities and metrics around innovation from NHS organisations across the East Midlands. This was released at the regional Innovation Expo on 29 November.

A public-facing, electronic version of the report has been created for wider sharing, based on a full report presented to the NHS East Midlands Board in May 2010.

In addition all SHAs have collaborated on this shared agenda and produced the first National Annual Innovation Report, which includes details of innovation activity from across the country.

 

East Midlands Regional Innovation Fund

There was up to £1.94 million available in 2009/10 through the Regional Innovation Fund to enable the adoption and diffusion, or spread, of new, evidence-based and leading edge services, pathways, techniques, tools and technologies and for new idea generation.

Applications were invited from NHS staff or organisations, which could be in partnership with industry, the third sector, academia, enterprise and others, who had to demonstrate how their innovations would support the SHA’s and PCTs' key strategic priorities.

There have also been opportunities for NHS staff to become Innovation Fellows or to apply for Innovation Bursaries, aligned to the key strategic priorities.

Find out more about the Regional Innovation Fund and other funding opportunities

Find out more about this year's RIF projects and how they are making a difference 

Find out about last year's RIF projects and how they are making a difference

RIF brochure
Click on the picture above to download the Regional Innovation Fund 2009-2011 brochure
Innovating for Excellence 2009 brochure cover
Click on the picture above to download the Innovating for Excellence 2009 brochure

 

East Midlands Innovation Expo 2011

East Midlands' clinicians, managers, innovators, innovation and R&D leads attended this key innovation event at Loughborough University on November 23, 2011. 

On the day, delegates came together to learn ...
  • How to take innovative ideas forward.
  • About the progress of the projects who have received Regional Innovation Fund monies
  • How industry supports an innovation culture
  • And take part in creative thinking workshops
  • And showcase their local innovations.

Find out more about the Expo here. 

The second DH Innovation Expo took place on 9th and 10th March 2011 at London Excel, over 50 frontline staff and clinicans showcased quality, innovative, productivity and prevention projects from the East Midlands across the eight QIPP workstream areas.

Find our more about the DH Expo here.

 

More information about innovation in the East Midlands is available through The Improvement Network website.