The AHSN Network has supported many innovators to help advance our health and care system. Find out more about successful innovations supported by the NHS.
Individuals living with a serious mental illness, die 15-20 years earlier than the general population, due to a greater risk of poor physical health.*This project focuses on the care that people with serious mental illness receive for their diabetes whilst an inpatient in a Mental Health NHS Trust.*Severe mental illness (SMI) and physical health inequalities: briefing – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk
Dignio is helping to keep people out of hospital, and in the safe hands of their care team in the comfort of their home. We provide a modern, easy to use remote care platform and connected devices to alert professionals if they need to act, and to engage people in their care. Health and social care teams across a region can use Dignio to monitor a single illness or a range of conditions. This has led to significantly reduced hospital admissions, and is saving healthcare millions of pounds.
We are a small team united by a common cause – a deep commitment to supporting sustainable healthcare and transforming the delivery of care to patients living with multimorbidity through use of technology and new ways of working. We combine a wealth of knowledge to bring a variety of perspectives and complementary skills to the challenges of the evolving face of NHS Primary Care and work in harmony with forward thinking GP practices and clinicians who share our passion for such innovation.
There is limited information on digital maturity in care homes within London. Building on the EoLC Care Home data packs created in 2018 and 2019, our Healthy Ageing and Informatics Teams were commissioned to create a user friendly and useful digital maturity dashboard for care homes across London. This project was led by the Health Innovation Network and funded by the Digital First London region team.
Marian House Nursing Home (located in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham) successfully implemented a Quality Improvement Project to improve the safety of medicines rounds for residents in their care.
REST EASY Training offer a simple, affordable, effective wellbeing methodology for schools, staff & families. The method forms part of a whole school approach & intervention strategy that teaches children, parents & staff how to recognise & manage emotions using our simple REST EASY acronym. We are evaluated against the NICE guidelines for social, emotional & mental wellbeing needs in schools & meet all DfE pinciples & SEL requirements.
HN is combining health coaching with its data-science expertise for PCNs throughout England. The service is managed entirely by HN and is fully financed by ARRS. Health Coaches can clear capacity so PCNs can work on the vaccination rollout and the extensive backlogs caused by Covid-19. HN's health coaches work with patients to improve their health literacy, build confidence and empowerment and get them to the point where they are pro-active in managing their health. This reduces their reliance on the system and alleviates pressure on primary care resources and GP workloads.
PCL Connect is an elderly-customised ecosystem of devices and applications to connect our seniors with carers, doctors and family members seamlessly using higher-end technology. Our easy-to-use tablet provides elderly patients with an opportunity to instantly make calls and share images with their relatives, carers or doctors. Our wearable sensors collect vital measurements and share them with all authorised parties to spot trends of health deterioration and provide preventive measures before they get severe. Our technology saves time, money and lives.
Ufonia is an innovative digital health company based in Oxford comprising a team of clinical, software and artificial intelligence experts. It was founded by a neurosurgeon with experience leading NHS digital programmes and is applying AI technologies to solve some of the biggest challenges in healthcare.
MyWay Digital Health (MWDH) is a University of Dundee spin out. MyWay Diabetes (MWD) their flagship product, developed with NHS Scotland, is the only self-management platform globally to be scaled across an entire country ( >500,000 web users, >65,000 data registrants). MyDiabetes Clinical is a complementary clinician platform supporting individual/ population evidence-based management/ decision support, risk profiling and analytics. MWDH is NHS Innovation Accelerator Alumni, has won Digital Leaders impact award (2021) European ehealth adopters award (2017), DiabetesUK QiC self-management award (2015).
Less than 50% of severe asthma patients have eosinophil-driven disease (Wenzel2005) and Biologics are designed to control the number of eosinophil cells (Asthma UK). Only 10.8% of eligible severe asthma patients have access to biologic medicines today in the UK. Increasing the use of biologics appropriately would reduce use of Oral corticosteroids (OCS), associated with negative side effects, and exacerbations, causing 75,000 annual UK hospital admissions, each costing £1500.
