In this weeks’s edition…

• KSS Patient Safety Collaborative Kent launch
• Kent County Council up for six top local government awards
• The Health Foundation: Innovating for Improvement
• Save the date: Smart Care in Paediatrics Workshop 13th February 2015
• Diabetes Professional Care Show: 11th – 12th November 2015
• NHS England’s Patient Online Webinar Series

Hydration innovation

Around 200 people a year die of dehydration or malnutrition in a care home or hospital. Dehydration is also implicated in falls, pressure ulcers, urinary tract infections and acute kidney injury. It’s estimated that proper hydration would save the NHS nearly £1 billion every year by reducing hospital admissions and helping guard against ill health.

NHS England’s Five Year Forward View (5YFV) sets the NHS the challenge of providing more support for frail older people living in care homes. Already one in six people aged 85 or over are living permanently in a care home. It’s a group of people growing in number and for whom the NHS and social care are not yet always providing the best care. This results in some people becoming permanent care home residents who might not have needed to. And a growing number of avoidable hospital admissions from hydration related causes.

5YFV proposes a new model for enhanced health in care homes. It sees a three-way partnership between care homes, the NHS and local authorities. This will lead to new shared models which “have been shown to improve quality of life, reduce hospital bed use by a third, and save significantly more than they cost”. It’s the only new model of care proposed in 5YFY that doesn’t require some degree of reconfiguration.

Pioneering

The health of older people living with frailty is a priority area for us. Care home residents are a significant number within this group. Our programmes will bring about better health and healthcare for care home residents, with less reliance on hospital services.

A key element to the work is hydration . We are supporting Dr Sarah O’Callaghan’s (Clinical Lead, NE Hants & Farnham CCG & Voluntary Hydration Facilitator at Frimley Park Hospital) work to reduce the number of people affected by dehydration in care homes across the patch and she will present her “Hydrate in care homes” project at our dementia collaborative next month. Academic evaluation of the project suggests that introducing “Hydration Champions into a home offers a fast and inexpensive means of highlighting hydration as one of the major factors care home staff need to be aware of every day”.

We are also working with Hydrate for Health who have a number of pilots taking place in Kent, Surrey and Sussex. Their “Hydrant” is a hands-free drinking system for people with limited mobility struggling to drink without help. Currently this work is at proof of concept stage, with data pre and post pilot being analysed to understand its capacity to improve health and well-being.

Seminar series

Our 2015 seminar series launched last week. A packed room heard from renowned organisation change and leadership development consultant Myron Rogers about how to implement innovation successfully. We’ll hold more seminars between now and July; watch this space for more details.

Kind regards
Guy Boersma
Managing Director, KSS AHSN

KSS Patient Safety Collaborative Kent launch: Thursday, 5 February 2015

[Kent Surrey Sussex Patient Safety Collaborative]

Join the KSS Patient Safety Collaborative to hear about their plans so far and help them to design the programmes so they help you to achieve your priorities for patient safety. Registration is free, and a free buffet lunch is provided.

The event is open to anybody who has an interest in patient safety, including patients, carers, members of the public, health professionals, social care workers, academia and industry. If you would like to come along or would like to find out more, email us at psc@kssahsn.net

For further event information, please click here.

Kent County Council up for six top local government awards

[Kent County Council Media Hub]

The shortlist for the 2015 Local Government Chronicle (LGC) Awards has been announced with Kent County Council scooping six nominations:

• Housing
• Partnership
• Driving Growth
• Business Transformation
• Efficiency
• Kent County Council is also nominated in the Health and Social Care category for its work over two years, led by Public Health, in designing a system that can help towards evaluating joined up care for the frail elderly across the county.

Read more

The Health Foundation: Innovating for Improvement

[The Health Foundation]

The Health Foundation has £1.5m available for up to 20 teams to test and develop innovative ideas and approaches to improving health care delivery in the UK.

As part of their Innovating for Improvement programme they are looking for projects that aim to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own health care through the redesign of processes, practices and services.

For further information and how to apply, please click here.

Save the date: Smart Care In Paediatrics Workshop 13th February 2015

[South East Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA)]

Date: Friday 13th February 2015
Venue: Holiday Inn Gatwick, Povey Cross Road, Gatwick
Duration: 10:00 – 17:00
Cost: Free to attend

Places are limited so early booking essential

This event is for: Paediatricians, researchers, academics and health technology businesses with products/services applicable to paediatrics

For more information and to register, please click here.

Diabetes Professional Care Show: 11 – 12th November 2015

[South East Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA)]

SEHTA Need Your Views! Enter the survey to win an iPad Mini

SEHTA is delighted to announce its partnership with Diabetes Professional Care – a totally new conference and exhibition designed by healthcare professionals for healthcare professionals. This event will take place at the Barbican Exhibition Halls in London on 11th & 12th November 2015. Diabetes Professional Care will include a comprehensive conference programme featuring eight streams covering all aspects of diabetes care and research.

Please click here to be directed to the survey. For further event information, please click here.

NHS England’s Patient Online Webinars Series

[NHS England – Patient Online]

NHS England’s Patient Online team are hosting as series of webinars to support practices, CCGs and CSUs with implementing online services, appointments, repeat prescribing and records access; which is included in the GMS/PMS contracts. You can ask questions, learn from other practices and find out how to access support locally. The webinars will run twice-weekly, starting 21st January 2015 for 30-45 minutes.

For more information and registration, please click here.

In this weeks’s edition…

• Patient Safety Collaborative safe discharge and transfer scoping workshop – 27 Jan 2015
• Innovation Leader Training Programme 2015
• The Health Foundation: Innovating for Improvement
• Save the date: Smart Care in Paediatrics Workshop 13th February 2015
• Access to Seven Day Services Workshop NHS England South East Sub-Region

Beating the burnout

Dr Atul Gawande, 2014 Reith Lecturer, has some interesting things to say about identifying and closing gaps in care quality which we agree with and would like to share:

“Just because you have a roadmap doesn’t mean anybody’s going to follow it. There are barriers to overcome to achieve even the simplest step and those barriers change from place to place…In one health centre staff may not wash hands because they do not know it’s important. In another, because they simply have not made it their habit and no one cares.

“If no one cares to take the trouble to do things right, nothing changes. And the overwhelming message it sends to the people working at the frontlines of care around the world is that no-one notices excellence and no-one cares. That is the biggest source of burnout and discouragement for healthcare workers everywhere.”

Celebrating excellence

Last week the region’s first ever Expo and Awards took place, attended by over 450 people. It celebrated and showcased achievements in improving care quality, with a focus on innovation and collaboration.

Winner of the “Enhancing innovation through collaboration” was Sussex Community Trust for their Telehealth pilot working with a number of partners including Docobo, maker of Telehealth technology. The trust’s community matrons have been working in care homes and achieved a 75% drop in admissions amongst a group of care home residents.

Yesterday that success was prominent in The Guardian. Professor Sir Bruce Keogh spent several hours talking to exhibitors and delegates at Expo and in an interview published yesterday, he describes what he saw:

“The other day, on a visit to the Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network, I saw a device that looks a bit like a games console. It’s much easier for elderly people to use. They hold it with both hands and a little screen asks you questions such as ‘are you breathless?’, and they just press a button that says yes or no. While they are holding the device, it is measuring their heart rate and transmitting their ECG, among other things. It can also monitor changes in bodily fluid, which is an early sign of heart failure.”

It was fantastic to have the opportunity to bring the great work taking place in our region to the attention of national leaders. To see that now leading to national media coverage is testament to their commitment to the innovation agenda – and the high quality work they saw in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

Kind regards
Guy Boersma
Managing Director, KSS AHSN

Patient Safety Collaborative safe discharge and transfer scoping workshop – 27 Jan 2015

[Kent Surrey Sussex Patient Safety Collaborative]

The Kent Surrey Sussex Patient Safety Collaborative is hosting a workshop to help develop the aims and objectives for the safe discharge and transfer workstream, and plan how the work could be implemented locally.

The workshop is open to anybody who has an interest in patient safety, discharge from hospital and transfer between clinical services, including patients, carers, members of the public, health professionals, social care workers, academia and industry.

For more information and registration, please click here.

Innovation Leader Training Programme 2015

[NHS England]

NHS England is providing 100 fully funded places to CCG members on this Innovation Skills Programme. Its core content is drawn from elements of the widely-recognised, CMI accredited, “Diploma in Innovation & Change Management” developed by NHS Innovations South West and Pera Training.

The training aims to help individuals facilitate culture change, improve innovation practice and generate successful innovations in their home organisations.

Further information and application form can be found on the NHS England Innovation Exchange portal.

The Health Foundation: Innovating for Improvement

[(The Health Foundation)]

The Health Foundation has £1.5m available for up to 20 teams to test and develop innovative ideas and approaches to improving health care delivery in the UK.

As part of their Innovating for Improvement programme they are looking for projects that aim to improve health care delivery and/or the way people manage their own health care through the redesign of processes, practices and services.

For further information and how to apply, please click here.

Save the date: Smart Care In Paediatrics Workshop 13th February 2015

[South East Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA)]

Date: Friday 13th February 2015
Venue: Holiday Inn Gatwick, Povey Cross Road, Gatwick
Duration: 10:00 – 17:00
Cost: Free to attend

Places are limited so early booking essential

This event is for: Paediatricians, researchers, academics and health technology businesses with products/services applicable to paediatrics

For more information and to register, please click here.

Access to Seven Day Services Workshop NHS England South East Sub-Region

[NHS Improving Quality and NHS England]

Tuesday, 17 March 2015 from 09:30 to 16:00 Gatwick, United Kingdom

NHS Improving Quality and NHS England are holding a series of events in the South of England to help local health economies plan to deliver access to seven day services, in line with the requirements set out in ‘The Forward View into action: planning for 2015/6’.

For more information and registration, please click here.

In this weeks’s edition…

• Save the date: Smart Care In Paediatrics Workshop 13 February
• NICE Public Board Meeting and question time in Maidstone
• New training for in-house improvement capability – book now

View, guidance, action

Important guidance setting out steps to be taken during 2015/16 to start delivering the NHS Five Year Forward View has recently been published. Its authors include NHS England, Monitor, the NHS Trust Development Authority, the Care Quality Commission, Public Health England and Health Education England.

The Forward View into action: planning for 2015/16, aims to establish a firm foundation for longer term transformation of the NHS. It includes a new support package for GPs, plans to improve illness prevention, and new access and treatment standards for mental health services.

Among the highlights it details how £480 million of £1.98 billion additional investment will be used to support transformation in primary care, mental health and local health economies. It also describes how the NHS will accelerate innovation to become a world-leader in genomic and genetic testing, medicine optimisation and testing and evaluating new ideas and techniques.

Step change

There are a number of significant areas in which our services support delivery of the 2015/16 steps.

NHS England will invite UK and international innovators to bid to develop test bed sites to sit alongside and enable new models of care. These innovators will work in collaboration to bring new care, services and treatments to more patients faster.

For example, AHSNs (and, in some parts of the country, Academic Health Science Centres) will partner with statutory, voluntary and private sector organisations. They will focus on deploying and evaluating the impact of different technologies and innovations working in combination. More details are expected in March 2015.

Expo and Awards 2015

The region’s first ever combined healthcare innovation Expo and Awards is next week – January 13 at Lancaster London Hotel. There’s literally a handful of tickets left, so if you haven’t got one yet you’ll need to be quick if you want to hear from a number of illustrious speakers including:

• Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Director, NHS England
• Dr Mike Durkin, Director of Patient Safety, NHS England
• Professor Ben Bridgewater, Director of Outcomes Publication, HQIP
• Neil Churchill, Improving Patient Experience Director, NHS England.

Further information and ticketing information is available here. I look forward to seeing you there!

The secrets of successful innovation

Our 2015 series of free innovation seminars begins on 21 January at the Sofitel Hotel, Gatwick. Myron Rogers, a global thought leader on whole systems, will be speaking about “Innovation – how to implement successfully”. Tickets are almost all gone, so if you want to start the new year with some fresh thinking and expertise, book a place now by clicking here.

Honoured

I’d like to offer our congratulations to Andrew Morris, Chief Executive of Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust who was knighted in the New Year’s Honours list for services to the NHS and to our non-executive director Dr Anna Van Der Gaag who received a CBE. Anna is Chair of the Health and Care Professions Council and the award recognises her services to health and care.

With best wishes for 2015
Guy Boersma
Managing Director, KSS AHSN

Save the date: Smart Care In Paediatrics Workshop- Gatwick, 13 February

[South East Health Technologies Alliance (SEHTA)]

This free event is for paediatricians, researchers, academics and health technology businesses with products/services applicable to paediatrics

For more information and to register, please click here.

NICE Public Board Meeting and NICE Question Time – Maidstone, 21 January

[National Institute for Health and Care Excellence]

Every two months the NICE Board holds its meeting in a different venue to ensure people interested in its work can hear about the latest developments and question the Board about policy. Attendees will have an opportunity to put their questions to David Haslam, Chair at NICE in a question time session before the main Board meeting.

For more information and details, please click here.

New training for in-house improvement capability

[NHS Improving Quality]

NHS Improving Quality’s Advancing Change team has developed a new ‘train-the-trainer’ programme based on their Quality Service Improvement and Redesign Programme. The aim of the programme is to help NHS organisations build in-house improvement capability and skills.

Closing date for applications is 16 January. For more information, please click here.

In this weeks’s edition…

• Save the dates – Patient Safety Collaborative events in January
• Read all about it! New Patient Safety Collaborative Bulletin hits the shelves
• Ready Now Programme
• CSH Surrey Clinical NED Vacancy
• QSIR train the trainer programme: for in-house improvement capability

Transformation, transformation, transformation!

The 100,000 Genomes Project aims to make the population of the UK the most g-mapped in the world. It offers the prospect of personalised drug regimes transforming killer illnesses into manageable long term conditions for many.

KSS and South London AHSN members feature in the Genomic Network Alliance bid to transform care for patients in south London and the south east.

Affording advances

But the public finances will have to be transformed too, in order for these and other medical advances emanating from Life Science’s R&D pipelines to ever become affordable. The national debt is rising, despite reductions in public spending that mean 25% fewer people receiving state-funded social care compared to four years ago. Further spending cuts will follow as a result of yesterday’s budget settlement for Local Authorities.

Downpayment

In the meantime, the NHS has received a £2 billion “downpayment” on the £8 billion baseline funding increase sought for the NHS in England to enable combinatorial innovation and service transformation in high volume health and social care services.

New models of care are being developed and introduced, designed to maintain independence, improve patient experience and reduce secondary care expenditure: the One Call One Team in West Sussex, North West Surrey CCG’s Integrated Locality Hubs supported by Radcliffe Lisk and others at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals, and the integrated care that Natalie Penfold is involved in from Kent Community Health in Thanet – all recognised at the recent KSS Leadership Collaborative awards.

Older people’s programme

To support vanguard sites and catalyse wider transformation in the care of older people living with frailty, we have consulted upon and are investing in a new programme focused on improving the health and wellbeing of older people. Too often they experience preventable emergency hospital admission. Too many, who wished to die at home, die in hospital. And many more struggle to find the right care from our complicated system.

We are bringing together the best of industry, academia, health and social care to help older people live well at home for longer, by reducing reliance on hospital based care.

2015 innovation seminars begin in January

Our 2015 series of free innovation seminars begins next month. They are open events, free to all to attend and designed to strengthen collaboration between industry, academia, health, and social care. The seminars are organised by us with the Health and Europe Centre, and the NHS KSS Leadership Collaborative.

The first is on 21 January at the Sofitel Hotel, Gatwick. Myron Rogers, a global thought leader on whole systems, will be speaking about “Innovation – how to implement successfully”. For further details and to register for this event please click here

Kindest regards,
Guy Boersma
Managing Director, KSS AHSN

Save the dates – Patient Safety Collaborative events in January

The Kent Surrey Sussex Patient Safety Collaborative (KSS PSC) will be hosting a series of launch events and scoping workshops across the region in early 2015…

The workshops will help us to develop the aims and objectives for each of our clinical workstreams, and to plan how the work could be implemented locally.

For more information and details, please click here.

Read all about it! New Patient Safety Collaborative Bulletin hits the shelves

The latest edition of the Kent Surrey Sussex Patient Safety Collaborative Bulletin is now available on the PSC section of the website.

You can also get the latest PSC news on Twitter: @KSSPSC

Read more

Ready Now Programme

[NHS Leadership Academy]

This innovative, inspirational positive action programme from the NHS Leadership Academy is going to enhance your skills, knowledge and ability to succeed. It’s a game changer.

There are taught elements, self-taught elements, group work, psychometric instruments, psychodynamic processes, experiential learning and a constantly evolving range of approaches to support your success. Applications close 4 January 2015.

For more information and details, please click here.

CSH Surrey Clinical NED Vacancy

[CSH Surrey]

CSH Surrey is in search of a Clinical Non-Executive Director. The post is 2-3 days/ month and requires some-one with a clinical qualification to provide input at Board level as well as to chair the Integrated Governance Committee.

Please contact Sam Scarrott on 0208 394 3840 or sam.scarrott@nhs.net to arrange. Closing date 9 January 2015.

QSIR train the trainer programme: for in-house improvement capability

[NHS Improving Quality]

The new Quality Service Improvement and Redesign (QSIR) ‘Train the Trainer’ programme is an exciting development for 2015.

It is a fantastic opportunity to develop people within your own organisation or system to spread the required skills and knowledge through a tried and tested learning and development programme. The closing date for applications for places on the programme is January 16 2015.

For more information, further details and application, click here.