What is the positive change that has emerged through new collaborations or partnerships during Covid-19 that your project is going to embed?

During Covid-19 we all had to work differently and quickly. Teams across the Trust and the Cheshire West Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) were able to develop and implement innovations and improvements at pace. The positive learning we took from this is we can work better together but we recognised a gap of how we capture this and build a network across the ICP further than a just a small group of individuals. As a system we need to be able to share learning and hold discussions around innovation and improvement easily and regularly. As covid-19 has reduced ‘corridor conversations’ and face to face large scale networking events we need to think differently about how we can still have these discussions, share learning safely and work together to make improvements happen and sustain.

What does your project aim to achieve?

Our project aims to develop better system working and sharing improvement, skills and learning to benefit our people and patients. Hexitime, an already developed platform and winner of the Q Exchange 2018, enables ways to exchange improvement skills and ideas in an open and collaborative environment. As there is already the function available instead of developing something additional we want to build on this and develop a partnership with Hexitime to create a system wide improvement timebank to enable us to share skills and knowledge across the Cheshire West Integrated Care Partnership.

How will the project be delivered?

We were delighted to hold our first System Transformation Leads ‘Improvers Network’ last month which is a network made up of 30 individuals from across Cheshire West ICP who are leading transformation and improvement. The network has been created to start discussions of a new way of working together as system. This network will be our vehicle for change and help to drive and support the delivery. The project delivery plan will be held by the Trusts Transformation team all plans will be agreed by the Cheshire West Improvers Network. Additional relevant stakeholder will be included. The proposal has been sent to internal ICT teams for guidance of implementation.

How is your project going to share learning?

The project aims to share learning across the Cheshire West ICP. We will spend a large proportion of the fund on communication, engagement coordination and most importantly evaluation so we can share learning.

We will use virtual communications and engagement events to share progress and learning of this project.

Following evaluation of this project, our ambition is to share with our ASHN, the Q Community and wider. Hexitime will enable us to have the platform to share learning across the NHS. We aspire to write papers of our learning for publication and to share at conferences and reach out to other providers.