YH HIEC Stakeholder Event

A Collaborative approach to innovation, education and implementation

We held an event for members and stakeholders on 30 January in Leeds.  Over 140 colleagues attended the event; hearing from key speakers, participating in workshops about the HIEC work and hearing from NHS staff who are working with the HIEC teams to deliver change in their organisations, feeding back their views into the current and future education and innovation arrangements and on future priorities.

We would like to thank all those people who attended and participated in the event and helped to make the day a success.   The outcomes and feedback are now available in detail:

Workshops from each of the HIEC themes presented with NHS colleagues we are working with to deliver change.

Briefings available on the day from summaries of our work to more detailed case study briefings on TAPS and the Telehealth implementation in Scarborough and the first of a series of innovation shared learning briefings around the HIEC approach and implementing behaviour change.

Plenary sessions including presentations from Chris Butler, YH HIEC Chair, Christine Outram, Senior Responsible Officer, Health Education England, Beverly Alimo-Metcalf, Chief Executive, Real World Group and Dawn Lawson, Managing Director, YH HIEC.

Panel session bringing together colleagues from teh NHS, HEIs, LAs and voluntary sector together to discuss the importance and barriers to networking, partnerships and collaborative working across sectors.

Your feedback is a summary of the feedback from delegates including their views on the event, what their key priorities are and what from the HIEC could and should be embedded in the emerging innovation and education arrangements.

The headline summary of the outcomes are:

  1. ON THE RIGHT TRACK

From the workshops and the voting sessions on the HIEC approach it was good to hear that we are ‘on the right track’ and that we should keep doing what we are doing, do more of it and build on what we’ve achieved.  From the workshop sessions particularly suggestions to continue the way we  work to increase adoption and spread included:

  • Networking
  • Engagement
  • Multi-disciplinary education, training and working
  • Involvement of patients, parents and other service users

Some very practical and specific ideas for adoption and spread were also suggested, these are set out in the theme workshops feedback, which we will reflect on and build in to our work over the coming months.

  1. BARRIERS

Feedback from all the sessions picked up on very similar themes around the barriers to the adoption and spread of innovation, none of these were a surprise to us or we expect to you.

  • Resources (time and funding)
  • Scale of change in the NHS and conflicting priorities
  • The need for strong leadership
  • The need to engage the workforce

We acknowledge these barriers and will continue to look at ways to minimise and overcome them when delivering our work and influencing future arrangements, over the coming months.

  1. MAXIMISING IMPACT

In addition to doing more of what we are already doing there was a strong emphasis from delegates that we needed to focus the drive for adoption and spread over the coming year to extend out into the organisations beyond the teams we are currently working with.

This will be a key focus for us over the next 11 months.

  1. INFLUENCING/LEGACY

We are working to influence the emerging landscape and it has been helpful to understand what we build on over the coming year; working with colleagues across the region to embed the HIEC learning and approach and representing our members priorities for the adoption and spread of innovation.

You told us that we should strengthen and embed the four key aspects of the HIEC approach; Collaboration, participation, networks and partnerships; Evidence based innovations; Education at the heart of what we do; An enabling approach – systematic/managed.

You then fed back that if the HIEC approach could be applied to a new theme to have maximum impact over the next 5 years the themes/priorities would be:

  • Educating, engaging and empowering patients, parents and other service users
  • Dementia
  • Care of the elderly and end of life care
  • Mental and Physical health agenda
  • Public Health
  • Whole systems, integrated approach – across sectors and disciplines
  • Workforce, education and training
  • Leadership/communication and resources
  • Falls
  • Pressure sores
  • Care closer to home
  • Maternal and Infant Health and Care

The majority of discussions not only focussed on the possible themes/priorities but delegates also stressed that the whole systems, integrated approach – across sectors and disciplines should be applied to these priorities.

  1. NEXT STEPS

We will be taking the feedback from the event to the HIEC Board on 26 March 2012 for further discussions around how we adapt and strengthen our work over the coming year to maximise impact and to influence future arrangements in order to meet our members’ needs.

 

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