Innovation in Healthcare

Innovation in Healthcare

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Innovation in Healthcare episodes

  • 22: Digital Inclusion - Device Repurposing

    In this episode, Rachael Barham, Digital Transformation Programme Manager, for Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria (HI NENC), leads a conversation with Jenny Foster, Network Manager for the Children and Young People’s North East and North Cumbria Diabetes Network, and Grace Murray, Digital Midwife, for South Tees NHS Foundation Trust, about their collaborative work on digital inclusion initiatives that have supported more than 400 families and pregnant people, to ensure that patients are supported in accessing a range of digital health technologies.

    HI NENC is committed to making digital health and care accessible to everyone. Our work focuses on two key areas:

    Digital Inclusion Forum – A collaborative space bringing together partners from health, care, and the voluntary sector to share learning, identify challenges, and co-design solutions that make digital access more equitable.

    Widening access to health through digital inclusion projects – A practical initiative that supports people at risk of digital exclusion by gifting digital devices (such as smartphones and tablets). Alongside the devices, patients are given support and training, to help them engage with health services and stay connected to care.

    Resources:
    Digital Inclusion | HI NENC
    Digital Inclusion | Boost Learning Academy
    Project gets patients on the web to help with their wellbeing
    Why Digital Inclusion Matters More Than Ever

    44 min
  • 21: Meet the Innovators: Andre Yeung - My Medicines Assessment

    In this episode, Programme Manager Emma Richardson chats with Andre Yeung, Pharmacist and Founder of Northern Informatics, about his journey as an innovator and the development of My Medicines Assessment - a new, quick and accurate way for pharmacists to assess patients for medicines adherence problems and to recommend support that is based on evidence.

    About Andre Yeung:
    Andre is a pharmacist with extensive experience across public healthcare. He founded My Medicines Assessment to address long-standing challenges in how patients are supported with their medicines – combining clinical insight with a deep understanding of pharmacy practice.

    Resources:
    My Medicines Assessment

    26 min
  • 20: Secure Data Environments - The Role of Public Members

    Secure Data Environments (SDE) are a new way that health and care data will be accessed for research and development purposes. It seeks to make access to data safer and easier for researchers and analysts.

    In this episode, Kathryn Eden, Communications Lead for the North East and North Cumbria SDE, talks to Violet Rook and Roland Finch about their role as public members. A public member refers to someone who serves on a committee, steering group or panel of an organisation, to enhance its governance by acting as an advocate for public interest.

    Public members do not work as clinicians, researchers or managers and can offer a different perspective, and can include:

    • people who use health and social care services
    • unpaid carers
    • advocates, or people who work with a relevant voluntary or support organisation
    • people who have a general interest in the use of NHS data in relation to health and care research and development
      • Resources:
      Secure Data Environment | Recruitment of public members for Secure Data Environment
      Secure Data Environment | North East and North Cumbria NHS
      Health Data Research Gateway

      39 min
    • 19: Secure Data Environments

      Secure Data Environments (SDE) are a new way that health and care data will be accessed for research and development purposes. It seeks to make access to data safer and easier for researchers and analysts.

      In this episode, Dr Alan Bagnall, Clinical Lead for the North East and North Cumbria Secure Data Environment, leads a conversation with Dr Nehal Hassan, Clinical Pharmacy Lecturer at Newcastle School of Pharmacy, and Arne Wolters, Head of Improvement and Analytics for Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. They discuss how the SDE programme will transform how clinical data is accessed, while also ensuring patient privacy.

      Resources:
      Secure Data Environment | North East and North Cumbria NHS
      Health Data Research Gateway

      34 min
    • 18: Digital Inclusion - Why it Matters Now More than Ever

      Digital Transformation Director, Dave Belshaw leads a conversation between Baroness Hilary Armstrong, who chairs the Government’s Digital Inclusion Action Committee and Professor Dean Fathers, Chair of Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria.

      In this episode they explore how the Government’s Digital Inclusion Action Plan is being rolled out and why it is more important than ever to ensure no one is left behind.

      The speakers reflect on why digital inclusion matters now, how it links to wider government policy, and the role that health organisations, local government, the voluntary and community sector, and industry can play in improving access to digital skills and technology.

      Resources:
      Digital Inclusion Action Plan
      Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria - Digital Transformation

      1 hr 1 min
    • 17: Transforming Osteoporosis Detection
      IBEX Innovations Ltd is a bone health company specialising in early diagnosis of osteoporosis, and has received support from both Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria, and Health Innovation Network South London, as part of South London’s FemTech Accelerator 2023 cohort.

      In this episode Programme Manager, Iain Taylor, who provided coaching support as part of the FemTech programme leads a discussion with IBEX CEO, Dr Paul Scott, and Chief Medical Advisor and broadcaster, Dr Sarah Jarvis, on the importance of early screening for osteoporosis, a condition which Sarah herself has been diagnosed.

      IBEX are winners of our Bright Ideas in Health Awards 2024 - Innovative MedTech Award.

      Resources:
      IBEX Innovations Ltd
      IBEX Innovations: Transforming Osteoporosis Detection with HI NENC Support (article)
      Stop waiting for failure: rethinking osteoporosis identification and care (article)
      43 min
    • 16: Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement - Place of Birth
      Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria’s Patient Safety Collaborative is a delivery partner for the NHS National Patient Safety Strategy.

      The Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme forms part of this work, which includes improving the outcomes for preterm babies born less than 34 weeks gestation.

      In this episode, our Programme Lead,  Julia Wood, leads a discussion about on our ‘Place of Birth’ intervention work, which is critical to preterm babies, especially those born before 27 weeks.

      Resources:
      Northern Neonatal Network
      Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme
      Patient Safety Collaborative
      North East and North Cumbria Local Maternity and Neonatal System


      26 min
    • 15: Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement - Magnesium Sulphate
      Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria’s Patient Safety Collaborative is a delivery partner for the NHS National Patient Safety Strategy.

      The Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme forms part of this work, which includes improving the outcomes for preterm babies born less than 34 weeks gestation.

      In this episode, our Programme Lead, Julia Wood, leads a discussion with Karen Parker - Head of Midwifery at Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust - about the benefits of magnesium sulphate, and how that has improved outcomes for preterm births.

      This episode is produced in celebration of World Patient Safety Day - the theme for 2025 is: 'Safe care for every newborn and every child'.

      Resources:
      PReCePT Programme | Prevention of Cerebral Palsy in Preterm Labour
      Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme
      Patient Safety Collaborative
      North East and North Cumbria Local Maternity and Neonatal System

      13 min
    • 14: Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement - Preterm Birth Evaluation
      Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria’s Patient Safety Collaborative is a delivery partner for the NHS National Patient Safety Strategy.

      The Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme forms part of this work, which includes improving the outcomes for preterm babies born less than 34 weeks gestation.

      In this episode, our Programme Lead, Julia Wood, shares a discussion with Research Midwife, Dr Cath McParlin, about the evaluation of what has been achieved for preterm births in the North East and North Cumbria.

      This episode is produced in celebration of World Patient Safety Day - the theme for 2025 is: 'Safe care for every newborn and every child'. 

      Resources:
      Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme
      Patient Safety Collaborative
      North East and North Cumbria Local Maternity and Neonatal System

      19 min
    • 13: Martha's Rule
      In this episode, Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria Programme Manager Paula Elliott, leads a discussion on Martha's Rule and how we have supported the implementation of this major Patient Safety initiative across NHS Trusts in the North East and North Cumbria.

      In May 2024, NHS England announced the implementation of Martha’s Rule across 143 pilot sites across the country. From April 2025 this was expanded to additional sites, including community, maternity and neonatal settings, emergency departments and mental health. This is part of a wider programme of work to improve the management of deterioration, incorporating work to improve prevention, identification, escalation and response to acute deterioration.

      Our Patient Safety Collaborative is supporting the implementation of Martha’s Rule pilot sites across the North East and North Cumbria (phases 1 and 2) and in collaboration with UCLP, leading on the implementation of Martha’s Rule into maternity and neonatal settings nationally.

      Resources
      Find out more about Martha's Rule at:
      NHS England » Martha’s Rule
      Managing Deterioration and Martha's Rule Programme - National Deterioration Forum - Futures

      Find out more about our Managing Deterioration Improvement Programme:
      Patient Safety Collaborative

      30 min

    About Innovation in Healthcare

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    The Innovation in Healthcare Podcast is produced by Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria (HI NENC), which supports innovation in all its forms within the NHS and Social Care.