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Encouraging innovation, improving healthcare
The 2010 Clinical Pathway Group recommendations are now available - all applicants must meet at least one of the recommendations.
Encouraging quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) is a key focus for the NHS in the North West. The InnovateNoW programme has been set up to help organisations and partnerships work towards these goals and address the recommendations of Healthier Horizions and the Clinical Pathways Group in the region.
InnovateNoW aims to identify and encourage the spread of innovative practices and services to bring about sustainable healthcare improvements which engage and empower patients.
The InnovateNoW programme for 2010/2011 is being funded from the Region Innovation Fund held by NHS North West, to help drive the quality and productivity of regional healthcare services and meet the healthcare demands of the future by investing in innovation. Applications will be invited once or twice per year.
Successful applications must address the recommendations set out in Healthier Horizons and the Clincial Pathways Group reports, and contribute to the QIPP (i.e. innovate for quality, innovate for productivity and innovate for prevention) agenda.
Last year, InnovateNoW encouraged applications with a focus on two of the pathways - long term conditions and end of life care - to fit with the national work on Transforming Community Services. This year an equal priority is being given to all pathways, and the additional focus is on partnership working across traditional boundaries - NHS North West wants to see applications which forge joint working across health and social care for example, between education and the NHS, across acute and mental health providers, or across primary and secondary care.
InnovateNoW is being managed by the North West NHS Innovation Hub, TrusTECH, on behalf of NHS North West.
Awards criteria
The fourth round of awards will focus on addresing the recommendations of Healthier Horizons, the clinical pathways groups and delivering the QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity and prevention) agenda, AND working across organisations (e.g. primary and secondary care, or primary and social care). Applicants should note that working across organisations is a new requirement for 2010/2011.
Award applications should be in line with NHS North West’s three strategic aims – improving health and wellbeing for all the North West population, optimising the delivery of quality healthcare in the most appropriate setting and being recognised as a world-leading health system.
Applicants should also consider local commissioning priorities and, where appropriate, the Transformational Guides for Transforming Community Services, the Joint Improvement Partnership, the Regional Efficiency Improvement Partnership, the National Technology Adoption Centre and NHS Evidence recommendations.
The InnovateNoW programme is not designed to subsidise core activities such as delivery of an existing service that is the responsibility of local commissioners; proposals that duplicate existing initiatives; routine costs of website maintenance; helplines or ongoing operational costs.
In addition, it will not fund research, product development, biotechnology or pharmaceutical-based innovations, party political activities, fundraising activities or activities which the applicant is not legally permitted to undertake. Finally, InnovateNoW funding cannot be used for implementation of innovations that are regarded as being 'mainstream' in the NHS (defined for the purposes of InnovateNoW as when the innovation has been implemented in at least one third of NHS organisations in the North West).