The National Health Services (NHS) UK has announced the names names of successful applicants of a scheme to make evidenced healthcare innovations more widely available to patients under which technologies, processes and models of care to patients, hospitals and GP practices will be rolled out across England.
Seventeen healthcare pioneers from the UK and abroad have been identified and they will receive support, mentorship from seasoned innovators, a bursary through the fellowship to spread their innovations across the country.
According to NHS, the innovations will help prevent diseases, speed up diagnosis, improve safety and efficiency of services and increase patient participation in decision making, self-management and research. This will lead to better health outcomes and a more sustainable NHS.
The healthcare projects have been selected under the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) programme that aims to give patients more equitable access to cutting edge, high impact products, processes and technologies, by focusing on the conditions and cultural change needed to enable the NHS to adopt innovations that matter to patients, at scale and pace.
<h2>2015 NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellows</h2>
- Andrea Howarth for Sapientia – a clinical-grade genome analysis and decision support tool which allows doctors to interrogate all known human genes for pathogenic mutations that are likely to be the underlying cause of a patient’s inherited disease and thereby profoundly improve rare disease diagnosis.
- Anna Moore for THRIVE – a new model of needs-based mental health care for children and young people which integrates SDM.
- Anne Bruinvels for OWise – a validated mobile patient-engagement platform. It enables patients to access personalised information. It is a large-scale database of the anonymised, real-time, PROM data, which it aims to use to improve clinical outcomes in cancer.
- Ben Underwood for Brush DJ – an evidence–based, free, NHS approved app for children to encourage teeth cleaning.
- Bernadette Porter for NeuroResponse – a nurse led, technology enabled model of care for MS.
- Dharmesh Karpoor for EPISCISSORS-60 – episiotomy scissors and SUPPORT training programme for a safer childbirth.
- Francis White for AliveCor – A Mobile Heart Monitor that allows individuals to detect, monitor & manage heart arrhythmias with automatic analysis.
- Lloyd Humphries for Patients Know Best – the patient controlled record allowing integrated care.
- Maryanne Mariyaselvam for Non-injectable arterial connector – improves the safety and care of patents with arterial lines in theatres and the ICU.
- Matt Jameson Evans for HealthUnlocked – the Social Network for Patients delivering needs assessments for the NHS.
- Neil Guha for A novel diagnostic pathway to detect significant but asymptomatic chronic liver disease.
- Paul Volkaerts for Nervecentre – mobile task management and communication tool for hospitals currently being used mainly within hospital at night.
- Penny Newman for NHS Health Coaching – An innovation to improve outcomes for people with long-term conditions.
- Peter Hames for Sleepio – A a fully automated, evidence-based, self-help, sleep improvement programme grounded in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), delivered via an automated professor.
- Peter Young for PneuX Pneumonia Prevention System – consists of a cuffed ventilation tube, a electronic cuff monitoring and inflating device – which prevents a ubiquitous problem associated with standard tubes.
- Piers Kotting for Join Dementia Research – This leverages advances in consumer technology and clinical informatics to bring together the NHS, charities and researchers to innovate how people are recruited to clinical studies.
You can find more information about the NHS Innovation Accelerator here.
