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The Innovation Insights webinars are a series of free webinars which highlight and share Health Innovation East Midlands’ knowledge of the adoption and spread of innovation within the health and care landscape. These webinars feature a wide range of content from key experts across our organisation, including topics highlighting:
Webinars will include an initial presentation followed by the opportunity for attendees to share any questions that they have for speakers as part of an interactive Q&A session. Each one will close with a series of key take home messages and calls to action to help attendees take forward what they have learned into their organisations.
The series is free to attend and is open to everyone regardless of the role that they are in or the organisation that they are working for.
A list of our upcoming webinars can be found below. Details of further webinars and links to register to attend will be shared here throughout the year as they are announced.
Watch our previous webinars on-demand and download the resources.
Health Innovation East Midlands Analytics and Evaluation Service team hosted an Innovation Insights webinar on ‘Evaluating healthcare innovation: common challenges and practical solutions’
Evaluating healthcare innovation can be complex; getting it right is essential for successfully adopting new technologies and care models across the NHS and the wider care system.
In this practical session, the team explored different types of evaluation, what they aim to achieve, and the challenges organisations often face when evaluating healthcare innovation. While not all evaluations encounter difficulties, understanding where common issues arise can significantly reduce the risk of failing to generate meaningful insights.
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Find out more about our Analytics and Evaluation support team
Health Innovation East Midlands and the Midlands Clinical Senates held a webinar to explore key barriers to implementing AI technologies within health and care settings.
Health and care professional seeking to introduce AI tools and technologies heard first-hand from the Clinical Leadership Fellows about the challenges balanced with actionable insights to apply to mitigate these issues, to help realise the potential for AI to support efficient and effective health and care provision.
Watch a recording here and View the slides here.
Every year in England, around 370,000 children under five sustain an injury that requires hospital care*. Around 40,000 are admitted, and tragically, around 35 die. Most of these injuries happen at home, and most are preventable. Families living in disadvantaged areas are at greatest risk.
The Stay One Step Ahead (SOSA) programme, developed by the University of Nottingham in collaboration with Small Steps Big Changes and the Child Accident Prevention Trust, is an evidence-based, co-produced intervention that helps parents and carers make homes safer.
You can access the resources from our webinar below to find out more about the programme, the evidence behind it and the support that is available to help you implement it.
The webinar was aimed at commissioners and managers of child health and early years services, public health teams, child health and early years practitioners and third sector and other organisations with a role in child health, family support or home safety.
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Access the implementation toolkit
*https://smallstepsbigchanges.org.uk/projects/stay-one-step-ahead-sosa/
Self-Harm is a risk to patient safety that impacts patients physically and psychologically. One of the key patient safety priorities in our Mental Health Programme has been to reduce incidences of self-harm.
In 2024, Health Innovation East Midlands worked in partnership with colleagues at Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) on a project which aimed to reduce incidences of self-harm on an inpatient ward. The project was led by a core team of three Nurses from LPT and HIEM and supported by a multi-disciplinary team of experts in data analysis and improvement. In a short period of time, the ward saw over a 40% reduction in incidents. Better yet, this was all achieved without increasing restrictions and staff and patients fed back on how this has positively impacted them.
In this webinar, hear directly from the project team, learn about their approach, what the team did to reduce self-harm on this ward and how the methodology applied can be transferred to other projects.
Watch a recording of the webinar here.
View the slides from the webinar here.
Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) is a common inherited condition, yet it often goes undiagnosed, leaving patients at significantly increased risk of premature cardiovascular disease. Early identification is key - and that’s where FAMCAT2 comes in. Developed and deployed by colleagues at the University of Nottingham, FAMCAT2 is a validated clinical algorithm that uses routinely collected primary care data to identify individuals at increased risk of FH.
This free webinar was led by experts from the University of Nottingham, including PRIMIS, who were directly involved in the development, validation, and deployment of the algorithm, alongside practitioners who have successfully implemented FAMCAT2 within their localities.
Watch a recording of the webinar here
View slides from the webinar here
Some of health’s biggest challenges can only be tackled by taking a whole system approach. This webinar explored how we have helped Integrated Care Systems (ICS) in the East Midlands to work with key stakeholders to implement system wide changes.
The webinar used a recent project that reduced the risk of harm to patients from opioids as an example, but the 7 step systems approach is transferable to any system-wide change.
NHS England’s Senior Improvement Manager for Medicines Safety, Ruth Dales, introduced the model she developed, and senior improvement leads Kate Hardiman and Richard McBain shared their learning and reflections of implementing it with local systems.
Engaging with Deaf People to Achieve Health Equity
Deaf people remain one of the most excluded groups in society, facing barriers to healthcare that lead to poorer outcomes, including higher rates of uncontrolled diabetes and blood pressure, later cancer diagnoses, and increased prevalence of mental health challenges. (Rogers et al., 2024).
This webinar explored the health inequalities experienced by the Deaf community, and the practical steps that can be taken to make services, research and innovations more inclusive. Speakers provided an insight into the barriers Deaf people face, guidance on how best to engage with the community, and examples of how their perspectives can improve services, research, and innovation.
Top Tips for engaging with deaf people PDF
Companion list of useful resources and terminology
This session showcased two pioneering East Midlands systems and presented project updates on:
Speakers shared exclusive insights and lessons learned on encouraging change, what worked for them, and focused on how these models can be used to inform other health and care services.
HEAR US and I am HEARD are co-produced tools developed by the East Midlands Reducing Restrictive Practice Community of Practice. They are designed to facilitate meaningful post-incident debrief conversations between staff and patients.
This session introduced the innovative I am HEARD and HEAR US tools, exploring how they were developed, their practical applications, and impact. We covered the Quality Improvement methodology used to shape these tools, along with expert recommendations for successful implementation in practice, including use of measurement for improvement . The session also shared valuable skills and techniques to support the effective implementation into practice to improve patient care and outcomes.
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This virtual showcase focused on Ambient AI and how this is improving clinical productivity. It provided valuable insight into:
The webinar featured a real-world case study and a live Q&A with NHS professionals, Health Innovation East Midlands representatives, and an Ambient AI provider.
This webinar explored the fascinating and sometimes challenging subject of measuring the benefits and impacts of innovation in health and care. Delivered by Glen Howard, Head of Analytics & Evaluation at Health Innovation East Midlands, this hour long interactive session provided an overview of some of the issues involved in identifying benefits for patients, workforce and health and care organisations, and once identified, some of the challenges in measuring these.
Black, Asian, and minority ethnic women face higher risks during pregnancy and childbirth compared to their White counterparts. Black women are five times more likely to die during pregnancy, while Asian or Asian British babies have a 73% increased rate of neonatal death compared to White babies. This highlights the need to ensure that ethnically diverse women receive culturally appropriate, evidence-based information that informs their decisions relating to their pregnancy.
This webinar focused on the challenges that inequalities in maternity pose, especially around informed decision-making. During the webinar, we showcased JanamApp, a multilingual pregnancy app designed for South Asian expectant mothers to address health inequalities.
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The evidence behind a programme or innovation is often one of the pillars of success. Evidence reviews - sometimes known as Evidence Synthesis or Systematic Reviews - combine information from multiple studies on the same topic to understand their combined findings. They help health professionals to make more informed decisions about how effective a drug or treatment might be for example. There are many types of evidence synthesis, and selecting the most appropriate method for the specific question being asked will depend on various factors including the resources available, the scope of the review, and the needs of the stakeholders.
This webinar showcased examples of the different types of reviews and provided an overview of approaches covering the pros and cons, highlighting the key similarities and differences between them.
View the slides from the session here.
This session provided insight into important considerations when conducting healthcare evaluations, with experts from Health Innovation East Midlands sharing their experience of scoping, managing and overseeing evaluation projects. The session included opportunities to bring questions to the team and to find out more about the support we can offer to those seeking to undertake an evaluation within their organisations.
We heard about the exciting Specialist Polypharmacy Multidisciplinary (MDT) Pilot Service evaluation project recently conducted, with the project team (and their evaluators) sharing their project, how they conducted their evaluation and the outcomes identified.
NHS Project Team – Rishi Gupta, Gill Stead, Anna DelfEdge Consulting – Virgina Dall’O, Lucy Pirkle
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Top Tips document
Isla Health shares visual data in patient records, reducing the need for face to face appointments and has shown to improve productivity. In a recent evaluation, results showed that the deployment of Isla Health has helped to streamline processes in outpatient clinics such as Neurology, Dermatology, Allergy, and Burns Care.
This session gave insight into the important considerations when conducting health and care evaluations. Attendees got to hear about Isla Health’s digital platform and how this has been positively evaluated at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH).
Being able to create a compelling and clearly articulated value proposition is one of the most common challenges that can become a barrier to stakeholder engagement and health and care system interest. It should be easy to describe and should aim to define the value of the innovation to a range of stakeholders. Watch our webinar to understand the critical role that value proposition plays in the success and adoption of an innovation.
This webinar was delivered in partnership with the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI), and featured speakers from both organisations sharing what makes a good value proposition and covering the support that they can provide to innovators.
People with a Learning Disability often have poorer physical and mental health than people from other communities, and face barriers to accessing health and care services to keep them healthy. This means that too many people with a learning disability are dying earlier than they should. Good quality engagement, involvement and coproduction with people with Learning Disabilities and their Carers is an important way to redress some of these health inequalities, improve access to services and improve health outcomes.
In this webinar Robyn Lees, Lived Experience Facilitator at IMPACT* and Deborah Wilson, Patient Public Involvement and Engagement Officer at Health Innovation East Midlands share some practical tips on how to engage with people from this community and how to use the ideas and experiences gained to deliver more effective and inclusive services, research, improvements, and innovations.
Watch a recording of the session here.
Read the Top Tips document here.
This session provided insight into important considerations when conducting healthcare evaluations, with experts from Health Innovation East Midlands sharing their experience of scoping, managing and overseeing evaluation projects.
We heard about the Atrial Fibrillation (AF) Virtual Ward Leicester evaluation project recently conducted, with the project team (and their evaluators) sharing their project, how they conducted their evaluation and the outcomes identified.
Speakers
NHS Project Team – Prof. Andre Ng, Suzanne Armstrong
Niche Health Consulting – James Fitton
We heard about the Pan-LLR Integrated Chronic Kidney Disease Transformation Project (LUCID) evaluation project recently conducted, with the project team (and their evaluators) sharing their project, how they conducted their evaluation and the outcomes identified.
NHS Project Team – Rupert Major, Tracy Jesa
Edge Consulting – Laura Dell’Antonio, Lucy Pirkle
This webinar explored the fascinating and sometimes challenging subject of measuring the benefits and impacts of innovation in health and care. Delivered by Glen Howard, Head of Analytics & Evaluation at Health Innovation East Midlands, this interactive session provided an overview of some of the issues involved in identifying benefits for patients, workforce and health and care organisations, and once identified, some of the challenges in measuring these.
The presentation part of each of our webinars will be recorded and slides will be shared with those in attendance afterwards. If you have any queries about content or accessibility, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.