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Covid-19 is impacting upon demand for mental health services, anecdotal reports of increases in both homicides and suicides. Proposal; testing a system led approach in undertaking Mental Health homicide investigations.

The Engineering Better Care Academy will provide an accredited and professional network of trainers, delivering The Engineering Better Care Toolkit across the Healthcare Service and beyond.

Measuring and communicating environmental and social benefits to nurture new collaborative culture and greener ways of working in whole-system discharge to assess.

To create a dedicated maternity advice and assessment service, providing telephone and video support to pregnant and postnatal women day and night linking in hospital and community based services

Embedding a telehealth service, currently in pilot phase into normal practice. Establishing long term support for service and defining most appropriate patient population to support with it.

Advice, education and emotional support for families of children immediately after autism diagnosis. This will be developed and led through collaboration between GNCH and the North East Autism Society.

Changing the way all of us think about end of life financial planning by enabling everyone to securely organise, store, track, update and share their personal estate information any time

Improve staff wellbeing and resilience of frontline staff 1. Sharing approaches to maintaining resilience at work 2. Showcasing capabilities of digital innovations 3. Develop wellbeing coaches

Improve access to emotional wellbeing support offering, either online or face-to-face, through a "front door" website and suite of activities tailored to address inequalities

Using technology in Acute Kidney Injury follow up clinics to reduce the number of face to face visits and change the way of giving of information to patients.

The project is designed to support families and stop children with a disability being admitted to the care system when normal support systems are disrupted or withdrawn.

Creating a safe maternity information system through digital technology, supporting staff and users staying informed on maternity and pregnancy topics with a strong link to governance and patient experience feedback

Embedding and developing remote nurse-led care delivery for patients with rare and less common cancers and their families

The vast majority of respiratory infections are viral and do not require antibiotics. Can point of care testing, coupled with behavioural change techniques reduce unnecessary prescriptions in the emergency department?

Ensuring the benefits from the rapid scale up of video consultations are available to non-English speaking communities – review of activity, patient and staff feedback and exploring promising change ideas

Step up to Outstanding is a six months coaching programme developed to support care homes with their improvement journey.

Describe, support and promote ways of working developed during Covid-19 through shared learning across Community Hospitals. Examination of case studies to develop a protocol to map initiatives and collaborations nationally.

An online hub dedicated to people with Type 1 Diabetes, directing them to key information and access with a specialist nurse, with the aim of reaching those less engaged.

Enabling patients to maintain close links with people who matter to them and ensuring their chosen next of kin receives up dates on their care and treatment.

To provide easily accessible local psychological and wellbeing support to staff, supported by line managers to promote and support a healthy attitude and work based culture on a daily basis

Placed Based Care sit at the heart of the innovation we have collectively transformed in Cornwall Keeping frail elderly people closer to home and out of acute care

The Enfield Pain platform will provide a virtual community hub for patients, partners in health & social care & the local community to co-create conversations & positive change for people…

To improve health literacy across disadvantaged communities to improve health and remove barriers to improving all determinants of poor health

We will identify enablers and barriers to Safe Practice and Shielding in Primary Care (during COVID-19). We will carry out case analyses, to identify individual/organisational factors that reduce risk.

Establishing a network of people interested in supporting Quality Improvement (QI) within surgery across the United Kingdom

Evidence shows COVID affects the brain and patients have developed Delirium. We plan to increase awareness and spread a Delirium tool Trustwide to reduce risk of associated complications

We want to increase our current provision at our "Sanctuary" and create an NHS Wellbeing Academy which is supported through apprenticeships and partnership with our local College.

Building on partnerships between health & care in London during the pandemic, to further develop the care home resource pack into an easily accessible, trusted & sustainable resource for care…

Expanding the reach of the project review group (PRG) by co-producing an interactive website, embedding effective supportive and collaborative project (research, QI, audit) facilitation and increasing capacity for improvement

Using an invested team approach we aim to enable patient agency in their care by providing evidenced based information, supporting decision making process and optimising modifiable risk factors early.

This project aims to triage referrals of sick children more accurately into home or hospital care using machine learning techniques that incorporate clinical and non clinical risk factors

To build on the experiences during Covid to explore how we develop a ‘new shared common purpose’ for joint and partnership working across Kirklees as a result of Covid19 learning.

Sustaining and spreading the successful enhanced care homes programme through co-production, digital technology and improvement methodology.

This project will introduce care home staff to Quality Improvement and involve them in a process to understand their education and support needs, evaluating the effectiveness of what is provided.

The panel will develop/evaluate participatory methodologies for embedding diverse public participation in COVID Research through a COVID Research Panel and coproduce multimedia dissemination materials of the process and methods.

The creation of a free-access, online, video library of simulated anaesthetic scenarios designed to address the changes in the delivery of multi-disciplinary education as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Harnessing learning from staff experiences of QI and innovation during the extraordinary pandemic response to understand why and how positive/negative outcomes were observed, to inform ongoing service reform and improvement.

Embed Health Coaching for Midwives for healthy conversations around Smoking cessation, alcohol, healthy eating and recreational drugs.

Innovating ways to connect patients with their loved ones, combatting the severe restrictions on visiting hospital during the pandemic.

To develop the Primary Care Network Community Model and the development of neighbourhood frailty hubs.

To share nationally and evaluate the adaptable ‘Start Well>End Well’ 3-step procedure which was developed during COVID-19 to enhance team collaboration and wellbeing by fostering psychological safety and peer-to-peer support.

Offer local, virtual social gatherings for people identifying as lonely. Volunteer couriers provide digital access to those without. Gatherings can be themed & cohorted. GP practices working with third sector…

To embed digital communications with families developed during COVID-19 in the management of critically ill newborn infants transferred for cooling treatment.

To improve access to osteoarthritis best care, building on an international COVID-19 repository of online, evidence-based osteoarthritis management programme resources via a co-produced user-friendly website and multipart knowledge mobilization strategy.

Groups consultations and rehabilitation groups were integral to our service. We need to develop COVID safe format and delivery that remains a high clinical standard that is patient centred

Improving patient outcomes and experiences by remodelling community pharmacy to provide increased patient centred activity whilst reducing pressure on general practice, out of hours, A&E and the wider care-system.

Finding ways to manage the impact of constant and repeated virtual meetings and workshops on people in our new virtual environment. Test and evaluate improvements, introducing these across a system.

We all need psychologically safe spaces to connect & be heard in order to support our mental-wellbeing. Research on patient safety shows correlation between poor staff wellbeing and worse patient…

Poor oral health is the most acute presentation of a number of other chronic health problems and is the most common reason for children undergoing a general anaesthetic.

To test improvement timebanking at a system level in NW England to evaluate the impact of concentrated idea and skill sharing

Covid 19 forced a reimagining of f2f services for clients with multiple and complex needs. This project aims to evaluate and improve the quality of reactive online provision through co-production.

We want to build a suite of virtual quality improvement simulations and games to support online learning as part of building QI capability across health and social care

The creation of child-friendly, engaging, accessible, support and guidance videos for children with ADHD within our services.

To fund a post-hospital rehabilitation programme for former ICU patients and their families, designed by ICU clinicians, patients and carers, to address physical, psychological and cognitive issues following critical illness.

A podcast series created collaboratively with diverse practitioners across the West of England, to celebrate healthcare workers and their innovation journeys, promoted widely and linked to online tools and resources.

To tackle Health Inequalities, including those worsened by COVID19, through a city wide group where academics are embedded in a coordinated partnership employing a whole systems and place based approach.

‘Digital Inclusion gives a Voice to Everyone’. Empowering staff to authentically engage with digital transformation.

For the first time in the UK, We are introducing a digital solution at primary-secondary care interface to streamline blood tests for secondary care to facilitate remote monitoring of patients

A collaboration between Primary Care, Leeds City Council and the 3rd sector, enabling people experiencing mental health issues to access learning, support and services to improve wellbeing and prospects.

We will be evaluating of Leo's Neonatal “Nurture Project” in the North East of England in response to Covid-19 to determine its impact and accessibility to generate scalable learning

Aim: Work with local organisations supporting residents to get online. Produce toolkit for accessing healthcare. Impact: Patients will get the most out of primary care consultations and combat social isolation.

To provide patients with quality holistic engagement maintaining and extending the essence of palliative care day services using on-line platforms

Developing a Quality Improvement approach traversing our place-based integrated health and care system in Croydon: making QI the way we improve things in Croydon.

We want to capitalise on a partnership we forged during COVID-19 to pilot peer support for parents of children in receipt of CAMHS.

Collaboratively developing new processes, pathways and resources to support staff and ICU patients experiencing trauma following their stay.

Our community Nurse will carry out a virtual weekly multidisciplinary ward round with residents in care homes across East Antrim using a digital platform.

Use the lived experience of staff during COVID-19 as a launch pad for improving the experience of underrepresented groups to practically create a fairer culture for all.

Developing a Spread Toolkit to support sustainability and spread

A website allowing appropriate patients to 'check-in' to hospital via smartphone. Patients can view queue position, complete screening and assessment questionnaires, and are called into safe assessment areas when ready.

Online resource to empower patients to take ownership of their journey and improve their outcomes from surgery. A portal for prehabilitation, preparation and information from comfort of your own home!

To capture and embed learning from the rapid deployment of a new workforce model to enhance end of life care in a community in-patient setting: Creating a sustainable future.

We will collaborate with maternity teams to develop interactive, virtual multi-professional safety training for maternity services, responding to challenges of COVID-19 in clinical situations and for delivery of team training.

NHS Trusts partnering with LatchAid, an easy-to-use breastfeeding support app using cutting-edge 3D interactive & AI technology to help mothers learn vital breastfeeding skills, connect with peers and get professional…

Proactively supporting frail patients living with Type 1 Diabetes through the Covid pandemic and beyond: harnessing cutting-edge technology to support the most vulnerable

Bridging Gaps is a collaboration of women with complex needs, GPs, researchers, commissioners and a charity aiming to increase the access of marginalised women to trauma-informed primary care.

Progress and develop online resources for families accessing AHP services in the Northern Health and Social Care Trust to support their ongoing needs effectively whilst minimising face to face contact

To collaborate with existing services to collate information for a comprehensive guide on cancer services in ICP area and share with patients and professionals to maximise knowledge, understanding and self-help.

Delivering effective early intervention for high-risk infants and their families in a coordinated and co-produced way. Coaching is at the heart of Ei SMART, a strong point during virtual consultations.

Provide a narrative synthesis of data captured by North of England Healthwatch organisations to describe the experiences and emotional responses of local people at different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nightingale London was a COVID-19 exemplar; a learning organisation, it developed the “Bedside learning coordinator”, which we believe can benefit all teams, and involve all staff in practical, rapid improvement.

This project aims to improve the efficiency of infectious disease screening processes to support the NHS to safely re-start routine healthcare services and address backlogs at a faster rate.

To develop an ACP educational programme for nursing/care home staff in the most deprived area of Scotland, which has become known as Scotland’s ‘COVID capital’ with 15 deaths per 10,000.

The QITalkTime Podcast will capture personal stories of people who work in and use our health services regarding QI, making conversations available through a podcast connecting a growing QITalktime community

Employment of a pathway coordinator to embed a new 24/7 mental health helpline designed to respond to the needs of young people affected directly or indirectly by the pandemic.

We aim to develop a training programme to enhance participants listening and communication skills, in order to improve teamworking, safety, quality of care and user/ staff experience.

For primary and acute care to become more accessible for autistic adults, through training, liaison and support from a specialist autism service, to reduce health inequalities.

Develop a live library of resources and information to improve connections & relationships between Gateway and C&V sector to optimise opportunities & benefit children & families in need of Early…

Creative Minds Media: will be a fully interactive multi-media platform helping us to reach more people using local NHS services and beyond, including live streaming on audio visual channels.

Creating an “Areas of Need" Geographical Information Systems Mapping to supplement the national 111 First pilot for appointments into the Urgent Care Center and developing software for communicating waiting times.

For those who have experienced a big shift in perspective over the pandemic, and wish to explore and test what this means for their work, this project is for you.

To develop and test a multi-disciplinary educational model that brings practical aviation human factors training directly into clinical practice through airline pilot observation of in-situ simulations.

There are no publicly-available teaching resources on patient safety, risk, human factors that reflect healthcare in 2020. We want to develop a free teaching package for NHS staff/students to address…

The Junior Health Sciences Academy (JHSA) aims to inspire young people to be champions for health promotion in their schools, understand and learn about a career in health.

Cumbria CVS will work in partnership and support organisations that support health and well-being in Cumbria to recruit 100 volunteers to support health and social care services and digital delivery.

Virtual Ward models implemented as a result of Covid can faciliate collaborative, shared learning with models for monitoring and escalation in many other health areas

A project that aims to drive innovation and improvement ideas through virtual collaboration unlocking the minds of all teams to improve patient care and safety.

We aim to develop an elective post-operative enhanced care unit for patients undergoing major orthopaedic surgery who would have previously been cared for on intensive care.

Working with healthcare staff in two South London acute trusts and their community providers we aim to improve awareness and identification of frailty to improve patient care and experience.

Making wellbeing everyone's business. A toolkit for prevention.

By using a whole system collaboration to reset the culture in a workforce that has been in an ongoing state of change from Covid 19

Modifying and developing an existing platform application for health and social care to create and sustain meaningful connections to reduce loneliness and disseminate information between patients, providers and stakeholders.

ONS data shows deaths in people with learning disabilities have increased by 158% due to Covid. Primary project aim is to strengthen relationships and improve outcomes for people with learning…

Transforming our 'multi-clinician' Frailty MDT clinics to completely virtual and offsite, based on adapting learning from our similar COVID-19 transition work, for our 'single-clinician' Diabetes and Dermatology clinics.​

Coaching can both foster personal/ professional growth and enhance resilience; COVID has revealed the need to enhance resilience until organisations can address root causes of burnout and stress.

COVID-19 instigated a rapid shift towards telehealth, leading to positive outcomes but also challenges. We want to ensure change leads to improvements, shaping new and better services for the future.

We will develop an innovative crowdsourcing community for staff and patients in Stockport. We will work together to recover from COVID in a sustainable way.

Staff across Kent & Medway Radiology Imaging Network will learn to produce, update and monitor their weekly Demand, Activity, Backlog and Lead times, to inform evidence based decision making.

Education is only of value if healthcare professionals are aware of it. This website brings all adverts into one place, reducing travel and improving access to online CPD and webinars.

During Covid initial Falls service were stopped.. District Nurse and our Falls Services undertaking less face to face but more telephone contact. Project to review how to work differently

This project is to increase the amount of creative arts opportunities for staff to engage in to increase their enjoyment and sense of wellbeing

Covid 19 presented a significant challenge in relation to clinical placements for AHP students. We will co-produce resources supporting AHP practice educators ensuring high quality placements despite significant system pressures.

Capture effects on the use of video-conferencing at cancer multidisciplinary team meetings, using improvement methodology to develop a resource pack to embed efficient and effective team working.

Improve maternity care and safety through the creation of a regional maternity observatory to allow sharing of enhanced insights to proactively identify outlier units and share learning from best practices.

Support a COVID virtual ward in East Lancashire by improving speed and quality of information sharing between NWAS and the Intermediate Care Assessment Team by designing and testing digitally-enabled referrals.

KidzHub is a single point of access for families across the region to get high risk / complex medication delivered quickly, safely and close to home

Creation of an interactive App to engage teenage Mums To Be in a multi-disciplinary programme of maternity care within the context of the challenges of COVID-19

Bringing together multi organisation teams, involved in discharge planning to create an integrated pathway to support people live well and independently at home.

A pilot project to see if the presence of an occupational therapist working innovatively with collaborators in housing & local authority can impact on length of stay.

To roll out the use of a compassionate care bundle across Belfast Health & Social Care Trust.

COVID19 created anxiety and resulted in mixed media messages. However parental decisions about unwell children during lockdown were generally proportionate and safe. We should celebrate and support this going forward.

Validation of a structured intervention using podcasts in conjunction with clinician time to explore health beliefs to improve physical and mental health.

Developing a new App to reduce inequalities of those who struggle to communicate. This will aid assessment, communication of fears etc. during a time when masks are required.

This mobile app combines behavioural science and AI to support cancer patient wellbeing, and understand their needs remotely. We propose to deliver this to brain tumour patients at NHNN.