In Shine 2014, we supported teams with new approaches to delivering health care that aimed to achieve one of the following:
Over the course of 15 months, the project teams developed and tested their innovations, putting them into practice, and gathering evidence about their impact and effectiveness.
The project teams and their partner organisations were from across the UK and included NHS foundation trusts, clinical commissioning groups, royal colleges, charities, universities and social enterprises.
All teams had strong clinical leadership and included people working in the operational environment where the innovation was tested.
The project teams measured the costs and benefits of their intervention.
The teams demonstrated the practicality of their idea, how it improved quality of care for a substantial number of service users, and therefore what impact it would have when scaled up across the UK.
Impact and success were measured through efficiencies, as well as at least one of the other Institute of Medicine’s six dimensions of quality: effectiveness, equity, person-centredness, safety and timeliness.
Each project set measures for each domain of quality that it was tackling, and collected and analysed data throughout the project implementation, supplied on a monthly basis to feed into a project monitoring dashboard.
At the end of the 15-month period, the teams provided:
Led by University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, this project addressed overcrowding in A&E and the increase in mortality rates this causes. The project comprises a safety checklist and IT in...
Led by Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust with contribution from the University of Worcester McClelland Wellbeing Centre, this project focused on supporting young people with psychosis to make i...
Stoke-on-Trent experiences a high prevalence of long-term conditions and data demonstrates that lack of communication and coordination across services exacerbates the problem. This project is piloting...
Led by University Hospital of South Manchester, this project focused on problems with tracheostomy care, which contribute to avoidable harm, morbidity, mortality and unnecessary health care costs. The...
Led by University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, RIPPLE – Respiratory Innovation: Promoting a Positive Life Experience – aimed to improve the social inclusion, and thus health and wellb...
Led by South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, this project tested an innovative occupational therapy intervention to enable individuals to regain independence, look after themselve...
Led by South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, this project developed an innovative early intervention service for young adults with eating disorders. The team offered a range of proven therap...
Led by Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, this project used an adapted non-technical skills for surgeons (NOTSS) system and a ward round based structured checklist to reduce errors and improve sa...
Led by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, this project addressed the high rate of dehydration among over 65s, who account for 68% of emergency hospital bed days yearl. The project focused on...
Led by a team from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, this project aimed to improve the health and wellbeing of ICU patients after they are discharged, measured through return to work levels, GP visits an...
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