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Commenting on The Health Innovation Network’s Impact Report 2023-24, Dr Vin Diwakar, Interim Director of Transformation for NHS England, said: “The latest report highlights that investing in innovation, research and life sciences can significantly enhance patient outcomes and benefit the UK economy and society.” Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eKYmriY2

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Our new report highlights how community support and connection can improve the health and wellbeing of people living with #COPD and chronic respiratory disease in #Somerset and beyond. Read about our community engagement project to help NHS Somerset understand how to improve COPD diagnosis, care and support. https://bit.ly/3OzsIGF Research Your Way Ltd Asthma + Lung UK Primary Care Respiratory Society (PCRS)

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Addressing #healthinequalities is an ongoing NHS priority. But how do you engage with relevant partners across communities? How do you determine the financial cost? And how do you strike the balance between national systems, joint planning, and local knowledge to address them? We cover these questions and more as part of our health inequalities bitesize courses, free to all NHS staff and essential learning to anyone wanting to contribute to the health inequalities agenda. https://okt.to/OMLB1q

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The NHS in Devon has launched local engagement around the 10 Year Health Plan, which will run in parallel with, and support, the national Change NHS campaign https://ow.ly/Xem550U9Nth

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NHS Trusts have made great progress setting strategic commitments for reducing health inequalities - but overcoming the significant barriers that prevent them from turning strategy into action remains a major challenge. To help address this @nhsproviders have reviewed 30 NHS trusts to reveal the key components of a succesful Trust strategy for tackling health inequalities, including: 👤Clear leadership ⚙️System integration ⚖️Measurable outcomes What key components have you identified? Read the full review: https://lnkd.in/eKfFAzcY

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A national survey has highlighted positive experiences of inpatients at UHMBT. UHMBT and other NHS Trusts commissioned Picker, an international charity working across health and social care, to undertake the national ‘Adult Inpatient Survey’ and the results were recently published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). A total of 557 patients from UHMBT responded to the survey and the response rate was 48.14%. The survey showed that UHMBT’s results were ‘better than most trusts’ for four questions, ‘somewhat better than most trusts’ for four questions and on a par with other trusts for all of the other questions. Nationally, the survey involved 131 NHS acute trusts in England and 63,573 patients took part - a response rate of 41.7%. Patients were eligible for the survey if they were aged 16 years or older, had spent at least one night in hospital during November 2023 and were not admitted to maternity or psychiatric units. Questionnaires were sent out and received between January and April of this year. Some of the positive findings of UHMBT’s report included the following: • The score for the question ‘When you asked nurses questions, did you get answers you could understand?’ went up from 9 out of 10 in 2022 to 9.1 in 2023. • The score for the question ‘Were you given enough privacy when being examined or treated?’ went up from 9.5 out of 10 in 2022 to 9.7 in 2023. • The score for the question ‘When nurses spoke about your care in front of you, were you included in the conversation?’ went up from 8.7 out of 10 in 2022 to 9 in 2023. • The score for the question ‘Did you get enough help from staff to wash or keep yourself clean?’ went up from 8.5 out of 10 in 2022 to 8.8 in 2023. • The score for the question ‘Were you able to get a member of staff to help you when you needed attention? Went up from 8.4 out of 10 in 2022 to 8.6 in 2023. Senior leaders at UHMBT said the Trust’s results showed that staff were still delivering good results for patients despite significant financial pressures. Lynne Wyre, Deputy Chief Nurse, UHMBT, said: “We warmly welcome the findings of the annual inpatient survey as it is good to have such valuable feedback from our patients. “I would like to thank all of the patients who took the time to fill in the survey and let us know what we are doing well and what we need to improve. I’d also like to thank our wonderful staff for everything they do, day in day out, to provide the best possible care to our patients. “We will now put together action plans to be developed in line with the findings of the inpatient survey. Improving patient experience and making quality improvements are key parts of our Trust strategy – Putting Patients First. “Our Patient, Carer Involvement and Volunteering Strategy also involves patients and the public to ensure the highest standards of quality and care.” https://ow.ly/jfBq50T3YIh

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The Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced plans for new features for the NHS App, such as enabling them book appointments in more settings and receive test results. https://lnkd.in/eZ9h-EXn #apps #NHS

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Our latest report looks to the ABCs to help NHS leaders address the current challenges it faces. For A, we’re looking at Active Solutions and the key pillars for reducing avoidable agency spend.   Get your copy - https://lnkd.in/dTajJvFg   #AgencySpendReduction #NHS #NHSpartners #NHSstaff #WorkforceProductivity

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An effective finance strategy is a key part how NHS organisations can reduce health inequalities. There are three main ways in which finance can help. Find out more about the role of finance in reducing health inequalities on the HFMA website.

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📢 In response to today’s announcement that Ian Trenholm, the Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is stepping down at the end of this month, Prof Martin Green OBE, Chief Executive of Care England says: “Care England has collaborated closely with Ian over the past few months to effectively advocate for our members’ concerns regarding the CQC’s new single assessment framework. While ours and the CQCs collective goal remains ensuring that high-quality care, support and information are provided to people who use health and social care services; the sentiment within the sector reflects significant apprehension and unease regarding the challenges posed by the new framework.   The recent initiation of a review of the CQC inspection regime by Ministers marks a crucial first step towards progress. However, for there to be meaningful change, there needs to be urgent decisive action from the next Chief Executive...” Read his full comment ⬇ https://lnkd.in/dAtQxmPq

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📣 We welcome the Innovation Ecosystem Programme recommendations, published today. The report rightly highlights the need for a focus on clearly defined national health innovation priorities, incentivising the partnership working required to deliver innovation, and improved alignment and shared accountability for innovation adoption performance. Our decade’s experience of innovating in the NHS has demonstrated that innovation is a team sport, and it works best when all the necessary players are enabled to play their specific, but coordinated, roles as the examples laid out in this report highlight. Read our response to today's report 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eKjNUExB Richard Stubbs NHS Transformation Directorate

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Todays report from the Innovation Ecosystem Programme (IEP) outlines ways the NHS can further develop and implement innovations in healthcare. There is an opportunity to embed the report’s recommendations into the forthcoming 10-year health plan, they include: Building skills, capabilities and culture and unlocking time the help the NHS workforce prepare for future ways of working. Developing commercial approaches to share value and adoption in testing innovation. Building robust evaluations to assess the impact of innovations. We welcome the report and look forward to continued collaboration with colleagues across the East of England

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We're pleased to see the publication of this report, which highlights the need for clearly defined national innovation priorities. Achieving greater impact and value from faster and more extensive adoption of health innovation is critical to delivering the three shifts articulated by government. The 15 health innovation networks are the health innovation adoption experts and we're looking forward to continuing our work with partners to deliver on the ambition of the Innovation Ecosystem Programme, in a locally relevant way. Health Innovation Network Richard Stubbs Kathy Scott #InmovationEcosystemProgramme #healthinnovation

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In case you missed it, the Innovation Ecosystem Programme recommendations were published recently. https://lnkd.in/ePJWyDqR Health Innovation Wessex are ready and eager to help implement the clear recommendations that have been set out which will support the testing and adoption of innovation both locally and nationally. #healthinnovation #Innovationecosystem #Wessex

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