West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN) Celebration of Innovation 2016 | Page 9

Breaking Free Group

GROUNDVISION

Delegate Brochure 2016

The world’s first online healthcare programme designed
specifically for offenders to be implemented in prisons.
Centre for Rare Diseases

THEME SPECIFIC NOMINEES
2gether NHS Foundation Trust
Through developing a process for Patient Safety
Leadership Walk rounds in mental health inpatient areas,
it is demonstrated that patient safety is a priority for senior
leaders.
ADI Health

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PainSense is two digital apps, designed to give more
support for self-management for people living with
persistent pain, “Pain Toolkit” and “Pain Management
Plan”, as well as a set of app-based needs assessment
and patient-reported outcome tools and eLearning
resources for clinicians.
Appitized Health
Pocket Midwife is the first mobile app developed by the
NHS exclusively for patient use. Developed in collaboration
with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, the
purpose of the app is to reassure pregnant women and
their families on their pregnancy journey, while creating
major efficiencies for the NHS, including huge financial
savings.
Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre
Research has shown that not all patients who suffer
with back pain need the same level of care. Using a brief
screening tool and matched treatments, care can be
targeted to help patients recover more quickly. We have
developed and tested an electronic template to assist
clinicians deliver this approach.
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health
Foundation Trust (BSMHFT)

2016 Nominees

Research conducted by BSMHFT identified 44%-59% of
Channel referrals had mental health and psychological
difficulties. A NHS-Police partnership has been developed
with the capacity to ameliorate the varied and complex
psychological and mental health needs of this group and
so reduce the vulnerabilities associated with radicalisation
and extremism.

Birmingham City University
There are many benefits of prolonged skin to skin
contact between an infant and a parent or carer, and
any intervention that promotes and enhances healthy
development is an asset to the baby. The ‘Snuggle-Up!’
enriches the shared experience, promoting attachment
and bonding by being skin to skin, harmonising the
experience for both.
Birmingham City University
The ‘Informal to Informed Carers’ project is a
person-centred education and skills development
programme to support unpaid carers to care better for
their loved ones as well as themselves.
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS
Foundation Trust
Baby Check was developed to help parents recognise
when babies need medical care. It consists of a set of 19
simple checks which test for different symptoms. Now,
Baby Check is available to parents and carers as an app –
rapid assessment at their fingertips, in their own home.
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS
Foundation Trust
The traffic light game facilitates clients (adults with
learning disabilities) to explore day to day situations with
the support of a game master to make judgments about
potential risks. The traffic light system allows clients to
colour code different situations based on assessment of
risk.
Birmingham Women’s Hospital NHS
Foundation Trust
‘Lessons learned dramatically’ allows the staff to use
simple video creation to focus on the problem by using
drama and ‘acting skills’ to make fun of the problem by
exaggerating it and then modelling good behaviour with
careful scripting.

The Rare Disease Centre, based within the new Institute of
Translational Medicine, aims to provide a one-stop clinic
where patients can undergo pre-planned diagnostic tests and
see all specialists and the multi-disciplinary team relevant to
their care at one visit.
Cloud2 Ltd
Kinesis is a clinical advice application that runs securely
over the N3 network, allowing GPs and other healthcare
professionals to seek advice from specialists as an alternative
to referring patients.
Coventry and Warwickshire Pathology Services (CWPS)
CWPS has validated and now implemented the Omnyx digital
pathology system for routine histopathology reporting. This
represents a major advance in histopathology, moving from
microscopes to digital images for diagnosis. The department
is the first in the UK to do this, and one of the first worldwide.
Coventry University, South East Staffordshire and Seisdon
Peninsula Clinical Commissioning Group (SESSP CCG) and
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
Following an open space consultation, we adopted an
asset-based community development approach to support
individuals with severe COPD. We have co-created an
informal “community clinic”, RIPPLE, where we blend
enjoyable activities chosen by our patients with gentle
exercise, anxiety management, and self-management
support and education.
Coventry University
My Liver App is an innovative mobile phone app designed
to help support young people with liver disease while
negotiating the transition process. Designed by young people
for young people, the app will improve knowledge,
allow users to engage with their care and reduce stress on
healthcare systems.
Endoscope-I Ltd
A system normally costing in excess of £10,000, Endoscope-I
condenses this technology into a portable, easy to use and
economical device that can be used to capture, record and
playback a patient’s ENT examination which then uploads
the images into the local electronic health record for
documentation or referral for a second opinion.

6,000 patients die every year due to clinicians not recognising
the patient’s deterioration in time, many more dying through
sepsis and the need to respond rapidly. GROUNDVISION
solves these issues and puts crucial patient centric alerting
and real-time analysis in the hands of clinicians and medical
staff enabling them to proactively treat patients before it
b ecomes too late.
HeadGym
HeadGym coaching is a one-to-one flexible service providing
innovative self help techniques for adults and children that
enable clients with mental health challenges to develop
mental resilience and manage their own mental health.
Health Education England West Midlands (HEE)
HEE has developed a bespoke Telephone Consultation and
Distance Health Assessment training module, offering
targeted skills training to clinicians involved in 111 and out of
hours service delivery, addressing an identified training need
and satisfying national policy to enhance the development of
“tele-competencies” in the clinical workforce.
Health Education England West Midlands
The CCT Fellowship was developed by HEE to provide a
platform for GPs to gain enhanced skills in the provision of
urgent care. The end result is a GP capable of practising in
interface roles across primary and community care, while
continuing to use their skills in managing complex comorbidity within the acute setting in emergency departments
and medical assessment units.
Health Education England West Midlands
HEE commissioned a UK-first national project in April 2015
to investigate whether pharmacist prescribers, trained in
clinical diagnostics and examination through an Advanced
Clinical Practice programme, could have a positive impact on
patient care in the A&E. A total of 18,613 sets of patient data
were received, making this the largest (known) study of its
kind to date in the UK.
Keele University
The work of local critically appraised topic (CAT) groups has
led to a number of evidence-based improvements to day-today clinical practice in the Stoke-on-Trent Musculoskeletal
Interface Service and general practice in North Staffordshire.
Kimal Plc
SEPTALERT will give the ability to continuously monitor delta
lactate levels, temperature and heart rate of patients in A&E
right through to critical care. This information can be used by
clinicians in order to aid in the early detection of sepsis and
improve patient outcomes.

Delegate Brochure 2016

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