Clinical leaders play an important role in encouraging innovation and creativity in teams. Raj Purewal discusses how to promote an innovative spirit.
Clinical leaders play a crucial role in encouraging creativity and innovation in their teams. Raj Purewal, business development and partnerships director at Trustech, the NHS innovation experts, explains how to keep the innovative spirit alive and deliver the most value from a good idea.
Innovation has been promoted as the key to increasing productivity and saving money across the NHS, while improving patient care; and it is changing healthcare for the better. The sector is taking strides forward in terms of new medical devices and equipment, diagnostics and screening tools, education and training materials, software and information services, and much more.
However, some Trusts still struggle to ingrain innovation into the mind-set of the workforce. Many healthcare professionals still believe that innovation is not relevant to their area of expertise or that they can’t be innovative. These people simply do not realise that innovation can involve making small changes to practice, as well as devising ground-breaking new approaches to patient care.
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