A: How to innovate in health - theory into practice

This is not an impossible dream! There are many examples of how innovation affects patients' lives every day. This lively Main Stage presentation by expert innovators, Lynne Maher, Head of Innovation Practice at the NHS Institute, and David Albury, Independent Policy and Organisational Consultant, will make sense of the theory and illuminate it with many examples at work today. The challenge is how to release the innovator in us all!

B: New Service - Interactive exploration of men's health

Do you want to be ahead of the game?  Learn how to use the tools of social innovation to encourage men to stop slowly killing themselves? Male health is the next huge challenge on the horizon, the scope of which is barely realised. Male obesity, for instance, will soon reach a crisis point. Ahead lies an epidemic of heart disease, diabetes and a range of cancers. All of which, without early intervention, will exact a high price in terms of human misery and health resources, as well as signalling a failure to address health inequalities. Discover how social innovation can work to create a new model of health for men:  learn how to become a pioneer

C: Adopt, Adapt and Improve - Royal Bolton Hospital

The answer is already in the system - Royal Bolton Hospital has adopted Lean Thinking as their key method for achieving a high quality and cost-effective service.    The hospital has developed its own version:  the Bolton Improving Care System (BICS).   This workshop explores how the Trust developed their method and the impact this has achieved.

D: New Delivery Mechanism - Patient Opinion

For the last three years, Patient Opinion has been exploring how to generate and use patient stories to improve the NHS, using web 2.0 techniques.  This workshop will explore the key lessons learned on the journey, will involve participants in testing out new ideas for developing the project and making the most of the potential of the web to revolutionise service design and delivery in health.

E: New Business Model - Becoming a Co-owned Social Enterprise

Using the experience of Central Surrey Health, this workshop will explore how to create a vision, win hearts and minds and manage cultural change. It will also share with participants the innovative Central Surrey Health model and its benefits.

F: Scaling Innovation: Let’s Talk - Barts and the London Medical School

A workshop all about communication, interdisciplinary working and how to scale effective innovation in health, led and organised by theLet’s Talk project team of professionals in Psychiatry, Nursing, Medical Education, Communication and Social Sciences from Barts and the London. This workshop explores how social and cultural background contributes to health beliefs and attitudes to mental distress.

No selection: I will use this time to visit the exhibition or drop in to the Open Café

Instead of attending one of the seminars or workshops listed above, you can opt to drop in to our Open Café for interactive discussion on topics that you choose

G: Incubating Health

The Young Foundation's Health Launchpad uniquely blends innovation, social enterprise and health, creating a space where ideas can thrive and develop into vibrant, self-sustaining entities.   Working with ideas generated by you, this highly interactive workshop will use the Launchpad framework to illustrate, step by step, how to work with an idea (anything from care pathway re-design to a new web tool that monitors GP prescribing) and transform it into something real, tangible and effective.

H: Here to help - Supporting third sector innovation

A practical workshop run by John Craig, Director of the Innovation Exchange, exploring the role of charities and other third sector organisations in health innovation. There is no shortage of good ideas in the third sector, but too few of them change the world. The Innovation Exchange works as an honest broker, helping innovators, investors and commissioners to make the most of opportunities for innovation, and actively supporting groups to collaborate, develop and grow innovation.  

I: Service Design - Using "Observation" as a tool for service improvement

Many healthcare professionals are used to ‘observation’ as a key technique in their clinical practice. There is another kind of ‘observation’ that comes from the worlds of design and ethnography. This kind of observation is one of the key tools that we use within all projects that the NHS Institute undertakes. This practical workshop will give you an understanding of how you can use observation to find out what people really do and how they carry out their work. You will experience how using observation can help to change your mindset, to redefine the problem that you are working on as well as providing you with inspiration for new ideas.

J: Working with Service Users - Experience-based Co-Design

"Your Experience Matters" was a collaborative project in partnership with the Head and Neck Cancer Service at Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This workshop will explore how the project tested an experience-based co-design model to create new methods of understanding and improving patient and staff experience and for bringing patients, carers and staff together to turn those experiences into real improvement actions.

K: Grassroots Innovation: Kent & Medway NHS Health & Social Care Partnership Trust

A workshop sharing the experiences and knowledge gained by service users, health and social care students, and mental health professionals through their participation in the Buddy Scheme. This award-winning project involves service users work with nursing, occupational therapy, and social work students to ensure they have an understanding of mental illness from a service user perspective.

L: East Midlands Intelligent Information System

The East Midlands IIS has been created to help support performance management by providing an all-in-one solution to reporting against NHS targets and operational plans. Currently used to provide weekly information to Chief Executives this system will soon cater for all performance reporting across several data themes such as Vital Signs, 18-Weeks, Infection Control and World Class Commissioning. This workshop will enable participants to discuss the rationale for producing the tool and experience a live demonstration.

No selection: I will use this time to visit the exhibition or drop in to the Open Café

Instead of attending one of the seminars or workshops listed above, you can opt to drop in to our Open Café for interactive discussion on topics that you choose