Theory of Change - innovate
There’s always a different way to work, yet often it’s hard to ignore what you’re used to doing and find the better way. So we help people to take a step back, innovate, and plan the practicalities of change.
We encourage innovation from across the healthcare system; a good idea is a good idea, no matter how small it is or where it comes from.
Examples of this include:Shine – our innovation programme
Each year, our Shine programme provides people with the opportunity to tackle a challenge to high quality care. Shine helps healthcare professionals to readily test and try out ideas for improving quality while reducing costs in a way that can be measured and proven.
Flow, Cost, Quality
This innovative programme seeks to understand the relationship between patient flow, cost and the quality of services. We are working with South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Improving the Safety of Maternity Services
The aim of this programme of work is to improve the safety and reliability of obstetrics and midwifery through a teamwork solution. The teams are developing exceptional clinical leadership skills, team practices and unit-level improvement capability in four UK hospitals.
Improving the Safety of Mental Health Services
The aim of the ‘Improving patient safety in mental health’ programme was to support four organisations across the UK to improve the reliability of care in order to reduce harm and raise safety awareness throughout their organisations. Participating organisations will innovate to produce a tested set of change packages replicable across other mental health care providers.
Shared Decision Making
Our Magic (Making good decisions in collaboration) programme will explore how shared decision making can be embedded into clinical practice as a core part of mainstream health services. The programme is designing and testing approaches to encourage the use of shared decision making and runs from August 2010 to January 2012.
