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New evaluation guide helps health and care innovators to prove real-world impact

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Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) have released a new guide aimed at helping early-stage innovators to measure and demonstrate the impact of their innovations and solutions in real-world settings. Developed in collaboration with our evaluation partner, Unity Insights, the “Real-World Evaluation Guide” provides innovators with a comprehensive framework to conduct their first evaluation, with…

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Consultation on a new pathway for the commissioning of MedTech in the NHS

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NHS England and the National Institute for Health and Care (NICE) have launched a joint consultation on proposals to introduce a new pathway for the appraisal, funding and commissioning of MedTech in the NHS. The proposals aim to ensure patients can benefit from faster access to the growing number of cutting-edge products recommended by NICE.…

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Trial of AI-based optimisation technology demonstrates opportunities for the domiciliary care sector to transform provision of homecare

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A three-year programme to trial the use of optimisation technology in domiciliary care has identified a number of opportunities for local authorities and care providers to improve the planning of homecare, offering potentially significant benefits for care workers, service users and the social care sector as a whole. Domiciliary care (or homecare) is provided at…

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Evaluation and evidence toolkits get fresh new look

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Our popular evaluation and evidence toolkits have been relaunched with an improved structure and design. The toolkits aim to give people working in the health and care sector advice on running service evaluations and using evidence to inform service development. In 2016, the team behind the toolkits launched them to fill a gap in the…

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PERIPrem webinar highlights: The scope, data and challenges

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PERIPrem stands for ‘Perinatal Excellence to Reduce Injury in Premature Birth’ and is a bundle of 11 interventions launched in 2020 across the South West region that have a significant impact on brain injury and mortality rates in babies born preterm. Implementation of PERIPrem is being encouraged across the rest of the country to help…

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14 strategies to implement digital services into routine work: article review

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In this blog, Dr Ben Newton, Senior Research Evaluator at Health Innovation West of England, shares his reflections on a qualitative interview study among health and social care professionals on their experiences of digital service implementations. I came across an article called How to implement digital services in a way that they integrate into routine…

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Study shines light on successes of PReCePT programme

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The success of PReCePT, a programme to increase the use of magnesium sulphate to prevent cerebral palsy in premature babies, has been highlighted in a new paper published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The paper shares the findings of the Health Foundation funded PReCePT study, part of the national PReCePT programme…

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New evaluation shows innovative patch technology can speed up clinical diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmias

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We have worked with North Bristol NHS Trust (NBT) to assess the benefits for patients and staff of a cardiac monitoring solution that is seen as a technological advancement from traditional electrocardiogram (ECG) Holter monitoring systems. Our evaluation of NBT’s implementation of iRhythm’s Zio device shows it has successfully improved system efficiencies by increasing the…

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Discover, develop, deploy: creating an innovation pipeline for the West of England

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As we celebrate the 75th birthday of the NHS this year, our Chief Executive Natasha Swinscoe and Chair Steve West reflect on another milestone we are also marking here at the West of England AHSN. We’ve come a long way together since we were first established in 2013 as you can see from our illustrated…

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Improving maternity care – lessons from scaling up the PReCePT programme

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Enhanced quality improvement (QI) programmes may be necessary to support the adoption of best practice in maternity units with less developed integrated working practices, a new paper published in the Journal Implementation Science suggests. The research builds on ARC West’s evaluation of the AHSN Network’s national PReCePT programme, led by the West of England AHSN,…

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