Proven innovations have taken too much time to be adopted by the NHS in the past,but some key initiatives aim to tackle this issue with the aim of improving patient outcomes.
Accelerating access to innovations within healthcare is high on the agenda, with some key initiatives receiving funding to speed adoption in the NHS – from projects aimed at reducing pressure ulcers, to breakthrough technologies and treatments for conditions such as cancer, dementia and diabetes.
Seven healthcare project teams have each been awarded £0.5 million by the Health Foundation to take proven healthcare interventions and approaches and deliver them at scale across the UK. Over the next two and a half years, as part of the Health Foundation’s Scaling Up Improvement programme, the project teams will scale their projects regionally or nationally and aim to deliver direct improvement to patient outcomes.
To effectively promote, spread and embed change across NHS the project teams will work together with a range of organisations such as clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), health boards, royal colleges, academic health science networks, and voluntary sector organisations. A previous example of success from the Scaling Up Improvementprogramme is the pharmacist-led PINCER project to reduce medication errors in general practice.
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