Innovate

Innovate
Issue 05 Winter 2015 Powering healthcare
innovation
Inside
2 Focus on Funding opportunities
3 Insight Innovation that flies
4 Focus on Medicines optimisation
6 Focus on Out of hospital services
for older people
8 Focus on Digital innovation
12 Focus on Join the Q – the Q initiative
is growing
14 Showcase Community hubs for
greater independence
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Funding
opportunities
i4i Product Development and
Challenge awards
National Institute for Health Research
Product Development awards support research and development of medical devices, active implantable devices and in vitro
diagnostic devices in any area of existing or emerging clinical need. Challenge awards are based on themed calls in areas of
existing or emerging healthcare need.
Deadline: 13 Jan 2016
More information: http://tiny.cc/ii9l5x
Health Services and Delivery
Research funding opportunities
National Institute for Health Research
The researcher-led workstream welcomes outline proposals on topics or research questions identified by researchers within the
programme’s remit.
Deadline: 14 Jan 2016
More information: http://tiny.cc/bn9l5x
HTA commissioned funding opportunities
National Institute for Health Research
The HTA commissioned workstream commissions research proposals that address specific topics or themes, as identified by
the HTA boards and panels. One of the current calls is for Understanding the influence of NHS Health Check Cardiovascular
Disease Risk Assessment Tools.
Deadline: 21 January 2016
More information: http://tiny.cc/hud85x
Eurostars
EUREKA and the European Commission Eurostars supports the development
of rapidly marketable innovative products, processes and services that help improve the daily lives of people around the world.
Deadline: 18 February 2016
More information: http://tiny.cc/a5cx6x
Technology Inspired Innovation
- Feasibility Studies
Innovate UK
Innovate UK is seeking proposals that will kick-start the delivery of
genuinely new products and services, with substantial and scalable commercial potential.
Deadline: 16 March 2016
More information: http://tiny.cc/l3cx6x
Pathfinder Awards Wellcome Trust
The scheme funds pilots to catalyse innovative early-stage applied research
and development projects in areas of unmet medical need.
Deadline: 20 June 2016
More information: http://tiny.cc/7pam5x
Innovation
that flies
Last time I promised you more about the Kent, Surrey and
Sussex Expo and Awards which are happening on 19 January
2016 at the Lancaster Hotel, London.
It’s our biggest, most innovative, most collaborative event yet,
brimming with practice worth sharing and a growing network
of potential partners to spread innovation further and faster.
The focus is on three themes which we know are on the priority
lists for network members and partners across the region:
Improving out of hospital services for older people
Medicines optimisation, and
Digital innovation.
The agenda for the day is shaped around these themes.
For each one, I’m delighted that we will offer delegates the
opportunity to hear from a leading national figure:
Lord Filkin, Chair, Centre for Ageing Better
Dr Keith Ridge, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, NHS
England, and
Beverley Bryant, Director of Digital Technology, NHS
England.
Each theme will also hold its own series of round table
discussions, prompted by the national picture and an
example of good practice that’s already happening in Kent,
Surrey and Sussex.
We aim to then build on those discussions to support the
further spread and adoption of best practice and successful
innovation. At our regional innovation event next summer,
we’ll report on the progress made in these areas.
Expo and Awards 2016 will undoubtedly be an exciting
and inspiring event. It will play a key part in the process of
identifying and spreading the types of innovation and new
models of care that the Five Year Forward View has signalled
as being urgent priorities for us all.
I look forward to seeing you in the new year.
Best wishes
Guy Boersma
Managing Director
KSS AHSN
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SHOWCASE
Medicines optimisation is a national
priority. It’s also a focus for our regionwide
Enhancing Quality and Living
Well for Longer programmes, as well as
the Kent Surrey Sussex Patient Safety
Collaborative.
The current national agenda is focused
on faster spread of developed solutions.
There are already a
number of areas of work
including:
the current
respiratory
programme
work with
community
pharmacists, and
the medication
errors workstream
within the KSS PSC.
Medicines
optimisation
At Expo 2016 the medicines
optimisation innovation huddle will
explore the scale and scope of the
issues within this area, share ideas,
best practice and opportunities for
future work between stakeholders. It will
connect a range of people who work
in this area to provide potential future
work projects and collaborations.
+ PHARMACY
Best practice and better
outcomes in Medway care homes
In a great example of integrated care,
a multi-disciplinary team in Medway is
improving quality of care for care home
residents, reducing A&E attendances
and cutting costs.
The team
A pharmacist, two advanced nurse
practitioners, two end of life care
facilitators and a consultant geriatrician.
The care
The team visits each care home on a
weekly basis for early identification of
potential problems. This proactively
reduces the likelihood of preventable
conditions such as urinary tract
infections and dehydration.
The pharmacist conducts in depth
medication reviews for all patients,
ensuring the drugs each resident is
taking are appropriate and necessary for
their health and condition at that time.
The team also provides support for
residents to ensure they are able to die
in their place of choice.
Novel approach
During the weekly ward round, all
patients needing specialist input
are discussed and action is taken
accordingly. This multidisciplinary forum
is novel for community healthcare
because it allows holistic patient care.
The team exemplifies integrated care as
it brings together colleagues from both
primary and secondary care.
Impact
Pharmacist led medication reviews have
resulted in a reduction of inappropriately
prescribed medicines and polypharmacy
totalling approximately £110K.
Unnecessary A&E attendances have
reduced which in turn has also reduced
the chances of prolonged admission to
hospital.
Coupled with a prompt review of
patients referred to the care home team,
the service is very effective at delivering
efficiency savings.
Lasting change
Regular training and education is
provided to nursing homes to manage
common medical conditions so that
knowledge and experience is shared.
Following medication reviews and
changes, pharmacists and nurse
practitioners make follow up calls to
ensure no harm has been done by doing
so and that the changes made were
understood.
Good practice from individual nursing
homes is shared on a regular basis at
the care home forum to encourage
positive change in the sector.
Find out more
Contact Dr Sanjay Suman, Consultant
Physician, Medway NHS Foundation
Trust, sanjay.suman@medway.nhs.uk
Prina Sahdev, Care Home Pharmacist,
NHS Medway CCG, prina.sahdev@nhs.net
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SHOWCASE
Over the past few months we’ve
engaged with our stakeholders
and members to shape and inform
the Living Well for Longer (LWfL)
programme. A significant focus for the
programme is supporting the shared
ambition across our communities to
avoid unnecessary hospital admissions
for older people and, to that end,
consider new and innovative models of
care to help achieve this goal.
Colleagues in health, social care and the
voluntary sector all face monumental
funding challenges.
Out of hospital
services for
older people
But LWfL isn’t just about money … it’s
about ensuring that older people have
the treatment and support they need
in the right place and at the right time.
And we know that, more often than not,
hospital becomes the place of choice
because of the absence of alternatives.
That’s why we are delighted to be
working in partnership with Age UK.
They are creating the conditions that
enable older people to stay out of
hospital. It’s about supporting older
people to access the person centered
care that enables them to live more
Many of the people who use
our programme say their
volunteer made the biggest
difference to their wellbeing
independently for longer. Volunteers
play a major part in delivering this
initiative.
As we pull together our refreshed
strategy for Living Well for Longer, we
are moving towards a place where we
can support our partners to contribute
to communities in which more older
people can flourish, enjoying better
health, care and wellbeing.
Living Well in Guildford
and Waverley
Isolated older people living with long
term conditions can be at greater risk
of ill health and unplanned hospital
admissions. An innovative project run by
Age UK Surrey is tackling the source of
the problem with an integrated service
that promotes independence and builds
confidence and wellbeing. “Living Well
in Guildford and Waverley” was set up
in August this year and is a partnership
with Guildford and Waverley Clinical
Commissioning Group and the national
Age UK team.
Why was Living Well in
Guildford and Waverley set up?
A similar project with an integrated
care approach was trialled in Cornwall
to help address the issue of avoidable
hospital admissions. It showed that by
addressing older people’s personal and
emotional needs - such as loneliness,
lack of confidence and isolation -
unplanned hospital admissions could be
dramatically reduced.
What makes it different?
The project looks at the whole person
and supports people to get reconnected
to their communities. Its person centred
approach focuses on what makes them
who they are.
“By being part of multi-disciplinary
team and working closely with
GPs, the voluntary sector is
playing an important role as a
change agent, challenging how
support can be provided in a
more person centred way.”
Di Cheeseman
How does it work?
Illustrative case study
Mr Brown is 70 years old and has
diabetes and a heart condition. His
wife has passed away so he now lives
alone with his dog, Rufus. Mr Brown has
had a couple of falls which resulted in
him being admitted to hospital. Since
returning home Mr Brown has lost
confidence and is no longer walking his
dog. He has stopped eating properly
and is no longer managing his diabetes
well. During one of numerous visits to
his GP, his doctor suggested a referral
to the Living Well in Guildford and
Waverley team at Age UK Surrey.
Within a couple of days, Mr Brown had
been contacted by an Age UK Surrey
Personal Independence Co-ordinator
(PIC) Anne.
Anne visited him at home to talk about
the project undertake a wellbeing scale
assessment and then start the process
with a ‘guided conversation’. Guided
conversations enable the PIC to find out
more about the older person, what they
enjoy and their goal. It became clear
that Mr Brown wanted to walk his dog
again and cook healthy meals. He was
missing the social contact of meeting
up with other dog walkers for a chat.
Together they drew up a support plan
that involved exercises to build up
balance and stability and arranging
any mobility aids he needed. These
first steps helped to build Mr Brown’s
confidence to go out. He was then
matched to a volunteer to support him
over a 12 week period to achieve his
end goal. Over the following weeks,
he started to cook healthy meals, walk
Rufus with his volunteer and meet up
again with his dog walking friends.
Find out more
Contact Di Cheeseman, Community
Support and Development Manager,
Age UK Surrey
di.cheeseman@ageuksurrey.org.uk

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Digital
innovation
Digital technologies have the potential
to deliver significant benefits to
patients and help overcome some of
the major challenges facing the NHS.
They have a crucial role to play in the
new models of care which are seen as
essential for improving health, care
and value in the Five Year Forward
View published by NHS England.
Our Expo 2016 will profile some of the
areas where digital innovations are
making a big difference across KSS -
and beyond - on themes that include:
sharing and interpreting
data and patient information
tele-health
health apps
assistive technologies
The project has delivered real results,
but it hasn’t always been an easy
ride. Clinical Director Dr Laura Hill,
and Project Manager Bharti Mistry
talked to us about their journey and
highlighted the top 10 things they wish
they’d known at the start.
What is the PROactive care
programme in north west
Sussex?
It’s a method of supporting people who
have long-term health conditions, or
complex health and social care needs,
and who are at risk of their condition
worsening. As the name implies, the
key objective is to shift away from
reactive care.
The programme embraces digital
innovation using a risk stratification
tool to identify patients have a high
risk of admittance to hospital in the
next year. The tool (Artemus Intelligent
Commissioning System) is provided by
Docobo UK Ltd.
Once patients are identified then a
multi-disciplinary team (MDT) agrees
a plan with each individual to support
them to manage their own care as well
as identifying other sources of help.
PROactive care data for year 2014/15
2,600
More
patients have
than
benefited
20%
of the referrals from risk stratification
profiles which identify patients at high
risk of hospital admission
Since April
2013, there
have been nearly 6,000referrals
Average reduction of
2 unplanned bed days
for more than 400
high risk
patients cared
for by MDT
computer modelling
clinical decision support
use of smart devices.
Work with South East
Coast Ambulance
Service meant 666
220 £0.6m
conveyances
to A&E and
admissions
were avoided,
saving
The PROactive
care approach
Digital innovation has been central to
North West Sussex’s much vaunted
PROactive care programme. Crawley
Clinical Commissioning Group and
Horsham and Mid-Sussex Clinical
Commissioning Group have worked
closely with digital health experts
Docobo on a risk stratification tool to
target at risk patient groups.
8/10
patients strongly
agreed that
staff listened to them and
treated them well
they were provided the
information needed
they felt supported and
managed, and
they knew how to seek help
from the right professional
at the right time
Patients reported
improvements in respect to
motivation and confidence
to self care, their social
network, emotional well
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10 things to think about before you
start your digital innovation project
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Cast your
net wide
The Clinical Commissioning Groups
knew they wanted to take an innovative
approach to risk stratification, but the
best technical solution wasn’t obvious
to them at the start of the programme.
“There was a fairly limited range of
options even just a couple of years
ago. By the time we had gone to formal
procurement we had already done
a lot of ground work looking at what
technology was out there.”
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Start small but
think big
Faced with sceptical stakeholders,
complicated governance rules, and
an untested technological solution,
the Clinical Commissioning Groups
focussed on just primary and acute care
data to start with. It wasn’t until those
approaches were embedded that they
started looking at mental health and
social care data. Now they are looking at
some complex areas like using the data
to identify socially isolated individuals.
2
Get on top of
the guidance, so
it doesn’t get on
top of you
Any digital project involving sharing
of data immediately brings you into
contact with a huge amount of red
tape, national rules and guidance.
The guidance is there for a reason,
but it needn’t restrict you when you
are looking to innovate.
“Know what the guidance is and start
with what you can share and go from
there. You don’t always need to be able
to identify the patient, it’s about finding
populations.”
5
At the end of the day,
it’s about winning
hearts and minds
The solution might be a technological
one, but it is the goodwill of people
across the health and social care
system which will mean the success
or failure of your project. Don’t neglect
the battle for hearts and minds. Better
communication is really important. The
Clinical Commissioning Groups used
infographics, videos, and patient stories.
3
Small can
be beautiful
Think carefully about the type of
provider that will work best with you
to create a solution. For the Clinical
Commissioning Groups, working with
a small, locally, based team meant that
they could build a custom solution, and
experiment with different options.
“Other providers we spoke to only had
a set product but the people at Docobo
liked to innovate and were quite open to
adaption. That is why we chose them.”
Positivity
6
The technology
supports the
service, not the
other way round
It might seem obvious, but it is easy to
get carried away with your technical
solution and to forget to develop the
services that the technology is designed
to support.
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Utilise the SBRI
process to bid for
funding to develop
innovative solutions
The CCGs used the Small Business
Research Initiative (SBRI) competition
to fund changes to the risk stratification
tool to pilot the inclusion of social
isolation. The resulting innovation has
ensured this high-risk group can be
identified more effectively.
Involve patients
7 from the beginning 8
Involving patients not only ensures the
solution you are building is the right one,
it also helps you build support around
your ‘case for change’.
“From early on we were already
involving the patients and consulting
them and getting their input. And there
were other people who started wanting
it so there was a little bit of patient
pressure as well.”
10
And finally… don’t
be afraid to fail
Remember that failing is an important
part of the process of implementing
something new.
“Our digital solution came off the back
of similar project that had not quite
worked. People were sceptical but we
didn’t let that stop us coming back
with the next iteration until we had
something that worked.”
Experience
Try to move beyond
the traditional
commissioner/ provider
relationship
Innovation requires proper collaboration
between all parties. Don’t manage your
digital provider at arms-length. Work
closely with them from the start, and
keep the conversation going.
“Flexibility and the adaptive nature of
the relationship has taken us forward.
It’s a symbiotic relationship. Docobo
can’t do without our expertise as
clinicians and we can’t do without their
technical expertise.”
Think big
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Where do the participants
come from?
Join
the
Sign up to join the Q
KSS PSC co-ordinated the
founding cohort appointment
process for our region.The
founding cohort has been
appointed to help design and
test Q during 2015, which will
inform wider recruitment to
Q in 2016. KSS PSC is now
developing a new Safety and
Quality Improvement Network
which will work alongside
the Q Initiative. Future Q
members will be selected
from this network, so if you
are interested, experienced
or trained in safety or quality
improvement work, we want
you to join.
Sign up at www.kssahsn.net/Q
is an initiative, led by the Health
Foundation and supported and
co-funded by NHS England, connecting
people skilled in improvement across
the UK.
will make it easier for people from
all parts of the health and care
system with expertise in improvement
to share ideas, enhance their skills
and make changes that bring tangible
benefits for all patients.
is bringing together a diverse
range of people to form a
community working to improve
health and care. These people range
from frontline staff, managers and
researchers to policymakers and
‘patient leaders’.
Jennifer Bayly
Nial Quiney
Tony Kelly
Liz Fisher
Jo Habben
The aim is connect a critical mass of
people in order to radically expand and
accelerate improvements to the quality
of care.
Watch our Q video at
www.kssahsn.net/Q
Kate Cheema
Sarah Leng
Michelle Webb
Anna Van der Gaag
The Kent, Surrey and Sussex
Q Initiative founding cohort
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Multi-disciplinary
services, personalised
patient plans
Ultimately we
want to make it
possible for more
people to have
access to care
at home and
stay independent
for longer.
Community hubs
transforming care in Surrey
Glenda Vella, Clinical Lead in
Adult Community Hub, Queen’s
Nursing Institute Nurse at First
Community Health and Care, speaks to
Innovate about Community Hubs and
takes a transformational look at how care
can be more effectively delivered in our
communities.
What is a community hub?
It’s a long term vision to offer a single point
of access to multidisciplinary services in
the community. We aspire for it to be an
integrated approach across health and
social care that is designed with the patient
to create a personalised plan.
How’s this different from the
current model?
First Community Health and Care’s
current services provide a high standard
of care to patients. Often the care is
delivered by multiple services which can
sometimes create unnecessary obstacles
for patients trying to access care.
The objective of the Community
Hubs project is to reduce duplication
caused by multiple assessments and to
reduce the burden on the acute sector
in emergency admissions through
community delivered care.
We work closely with community nurses,
therapists, primary care, social care,
mental health, carers support, therapies
services and the voluntary sector to
deliver this new service.
So this has been created as
a response to high hospital
admissions?
In part - acute hospital care accounts
for almost half of the entire NHS budget
and admission rates to hospital are
increasing. However there is also a need
for people to be supported to stay well
and for patients to receive care at home
or as close to home as possible.
The Community Hubs focus on “what
good looks like” and aspires to create
community services that better serve
the patient. We scoped the work with
stakeholders in the local community to
understand where gaps were in their
own services and across the local health
economy to develop this programme.
These are the sort of improvements we
need to make now if we’re going to keep
in step with changing patient needs. In
Surrey, over the next 7 years the rate of
increase in over 85s is projected to be
greater than that for over 65s, so we need
to act quickly to be prepared for these
generational changes.
OK, so give us an example
of how this project can help
older people maintain their
health, independence and
wellbeing?
People living with diabetes on insulin is
a great example. In the UK, the number
of patients diagnosed with diabetes
continues to grow. The increase in people
needing assistance to administer insulin
to maintain safe blood glucose levels
has resulted in additional demand on
community nurses.
Before the hub redesign it was an
increasing challenge to accommodate
patients’ insulin at a time that fitted
with their lifestyle. The evening nursing
had very limited capacity between
18.00-20.30 as they had a full caseload
of patients requiring insulin or clexane
administration.
By changing the service times for
community nursing, we’ve created
capacity for an unscheduled care in
evening service and we are able to
support insulin administration at a time
that supports patient choice.
How can people find out
more?
There’s more information at
www.firstcommunityhealthcare.co.uk
or contact
Liz.Hobby@firstcommunitysurrey-cic.nhs.uk
Thanks very much Glenda for taking the
time to speak to us here at Innovate. We
wish you the best of luck with the future
of Community Hubs.

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Heart failure:
evidence based
clinical measures
save lives
Heart failure care has improved continually over the last seven years; that’s according to the
National Heart Failure Audit. The audit has shown prolonged survival and better outcomes
for heart failure patients every year.
Leadership, benchmarking,
collaboration
KSS AHSN Improvement Manager
Jen Bayly leads the Heart Failure
collaborative in our Enhancing Quality
programme. She has created a process
in which strong clinical leadership,
benchmarking and collaborative
learning is used to identify and reduce
variation in heart failure care.
Connecting acute and
community teams
The work brings together Heart Failure
specialist teams from acute and
community settings to benchmark the
quality of care being provided, measure
improvement of that care and provide
regional and international comparisons.
It aligns the Best Practice Tariff and the
Acute Heart Failure guidelines, using the
National Heart Failure Audit data and
NICE Quality Standards.
Our approach uses regional monthly
dashboard reports, at trust and service
level, to enable commissioners and
providers to understand how they
can deliver better care and outcomes
for people with heart failure. It also
addresses the considerable variation
that currently exists in the management
of heart failure and associated
outcomes.
Find out more
Contact Jen Bayly, Enhancing Quality
Heart Failure and Atrial Fibrillation
Programme Lead, KSS AHSN
jennifer.bayly@nhs.net
kssahsn.net/heartfailure
We aim to
improve
outcomes,
reduce
variation
and save
the lives of
people living
with heart
failure
Heart failure affects
550,000
people
currently diagnosed in the UK
Heart failure is the
leading cause of
hospital admission in
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65s
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Projectio ns indicate
that hosp ital admissions
for heart failure
are set to rise by
50%
in the ne xt 25 years due
to an ag eing population
5-year
survival rate for
heart failure
is
worse
than breast or
prostate cancer
NATIONAL
HEART
FAILURE
AUDIT
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in each of the last
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Pressure damage is
everybody’s business
The KSS PSC ‘Pressure Damage is
Everybody’s Business’ conference
in October attracted more than 250
delegates from health and social care
services in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
The conference provided opportunities
to hear patient stories and share best
practice, as well as to learn from, and
network with, national patient safety
and pressure damage experts.
Delegates also found out more about
the new innovative devices and tools
industry partners are developing to
help reduce pressure damage and
improve patient experience. Workshops
delivered by leaders in their field
included key learning from litigation and
serious incident reviews, nutrition and
hydration, and pressure mapping and
positioning.
Download
All of the presentations and
workshop resources from the
conference are available on the
pressure damage resources section
of our website
www.kssahsn.net/pressure
Kay Mackay, Co-Director,
Kent Surrey Sussex Patient
Safety Collaborative
“I’m more certain than ever that by
working together we can achieve our
ultimate goal of reducing pressure
damage in all care settings.”
Kieran Attreed-Williams,
Quality Innovation Manager
for Home Support Services,
Essex County Council
“There needs to be more of this
more regularly, it’s brilliant.
We wanted to come today to
share what we’ve been doing
around Essex and for people
to take away a little bit of the
knowledge we’ve got.”
Clare James, Director, Your
Turn
“It’s a fantastic environment with
everybody cherry picking the bits
they want from everybody else and
also understanding how they can
apply it to where they work and
whichever situation they are in.”
Jacqui Fletcher, Clinical
Strategy Director, Welsh
Wound Innovation Centre
“KSS PSC have got nurses,
people from patient safety, from
commissioning and a whole host
of other disciplines here; it’s great
to see that level of engagement.”
Caroline Lecko, Patient
Safety Lead, NHS England
“KSS PSC has been really
proactive at bringing together
some expertise, some knowledge,
some innovation and really
engaging with people who are out
there delivering care.”
Samantha Gradwell, Patient
Safety National Lead
Investigator, NHS England
“It’s been a really, really innovative
day. You can see that the audience
are fully engaged and interested in
the topic, so it’s very encouraging.”
Upcoming events
Ongoing in 2016
Innovation surgeries
Kent, Surrey and Sussex
We host regular innovation surgeries for
companies wishing to further develop
their market access strategies and plans.
We explore, in confidence, where the
peculiarities of the NHS (or wider health
system) and its financial mechanisms are
likely to impact on their plans and advise
on potential remedies. The surgeries are
intended for companies with products or
services on market or ready for market. They
help us identify products of potential interest
to our member organisations.
Next dates are:
• Guildford on 25 January 2016
• Crawley on 27 January
• Kent on 28 January.
To find out more or to book, please email
Clare.Ansett@sehta.co.uk
3 Feb 2016
KSS AHSN Heart Failure
Collaborative
Gatwick
Featuring the new EQ measures data for
acute and community services across KSS.
See kssahsn.net for more information
9 Feb 2016
Integrating care throughout the
patient’s surgical journey
The King’s Fund, London W1G 0AN
This one-day conference will explore how
to embed a coordinated and collaborative
way of working between health and care
professionals who are responsible for
patients’ care before, during and after major
surgery, so that they can deliver the best
possible outcomes.
http://tiny.cc/w5gm5x
9 February 2015
Intermediate care for older people
The King’s Fund, London W1G 0AN
Workshop for clinicians and managers
leading the delivery, co-ordination and
commissioning of intermediate care
for older people with frailty, within and
across health care, social care and
the voluntary sector. Programme
includes Professor David Oliver
on ‘what good care looks like’
based on the paper, Making
our health and care systems
fit for an ageing population.
http://tiny.cc/8bhm5x
9 Feb 2016
KSS PSC Medication
Errors
Gatwick
See kssahsn.net for more
information
24 Feb 2016
KSS PSC – Sepsis Learning
Event – Primary and Community
Care Gatwick
Free event for GPs, practice nurses, care
home staff, community nurses, paramedics,
urgent treatment and minor injuries staff
and out-of-hours staff (including 111 and
GPs), and anybody else who may need
to recognise the signs of sepsis in a
community setting.
See kssahsn.net for more information
Get in touch
innovate@kssahsn.net

Events
Innovate Issue 05
The fast lane
for innovation
Tuesday 19 January 2016
The Lancaster Hotel,
London
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Main stage speakers include:
Beverley Bryant, Director of Digital Technology,
NHS England,
Dr Keith Ridge, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer,
NHS England, and
Lord Filkin, Chair, Centre for Ageing Better
We will focus on three major themes that are key to
achieving better health, better care, and better value:
Digital innovation
Medicines optimisation, and
Improving out of hospital services for
older people.
Brought to you in partnership with
Kent Surrey Sussex Leadership Academy,
South East Coast Strategic Clinical Networks,
South East Health Technologies Alliance.
Find out more at
www.kssahsn.net/Expoandawards2016
#KSSExpo
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