Background to and aims of the Regional Innovation Fund

1. Background to and aims of the Regional Innovation Fund Healthier Horizons

2. “ In the North West our ambition has always been to be at the cutting edge of health care, through encouraging innovative practice across the region’s health economy.” Mike Farrar C.E. NHS NW Andrew McCorkle Assistant Director Performance Quality & Nursing Better Care Better Health Better Life

3. Presentation Overview • National & Regional Policy Framework • SHA’s Vision & Role • Overview NW RIF • Changing Context Better Care Better Health Better Life

4. “Clinical practice is constantly improving, offering new opportunities to improve the quality of care. This means that if quality is really at the heart of everything we do, accepting, embracing and leading change is an imperative, not an option. Innovation must be central to the NHS.” High Quality Care For All, Next Stage Review. Better Care Better Health Better Life

5. National Regional Policy Framework • High Quality Care for All focus on innovation • Establish SHA duty to promote • Outlines support process including Regional Innovation Fund • NHS Constitution outlines commitments to innovation for patients & staff. • Quality Innovation Productivity & Prevention agenda • NW Healthier Horizons, innovation is core to the strategic direction outlined in our regional NHS vision. • Implementing so that people in the North West benefit from the latest advances in medicine and health care. Better Care Better Health Better Life

6. NW Innovation Vision • Our vision is to create a culture across the Northwest where innovation is enabled, expected, supported and celebrated. • The focus of innovation in our region is in developing new knowledge and using existing knowledge in new ways to create value and improve quality. Better Care Better Health Better Life

7. SHA Role • SHA role continue to act as a catalyst for change by • stimulating new ideas • support development of innovators • rewarding best practice to enable ideas to be put into practice widely and quickly • promoting new ways of working to tackle long-standing problems. • SHA requires innovation to the drive improvements in quality and productivity and focus the NHS regionally on prevention of ill-health. Better Care Better Health Better Life

8. NW Overview RIF • Linked to Healthier Horizons goals/clinical pathway groups/ QIPP agenda. • Managing in partnership to grow and spread tomorrow’s best practice in the NHS. • Return on Investment • benefit patients, more efficient and better value for money services for the patient, • widespread diffusion of new ideas and best practice. • Evaluation of progress • Not all will succeed ….. • Annual Innovation Report Better Care Better Health Better Life

9. Innovation continuum invention Proof of concept Product to market Adoption and diffusion Culture V strong strong weaker aspiration Better Care Better Health Better Life

10. North West Innovation Culture • • Expertise in the existing system & in this room, let’s use it! • Need for more collaborative working, sharing & learning. • Working together to discover & develop future approaches and solutions. • Establishing a sustainable future proof social movement of innovation. Better Care Better Health Better Life

11. Changing Context • White paper Equity & Excellence: Liberating the NHS • “ Create an NHS which is more responsive to patients, and achieves better outcomes, with increased autonomy and clear accountability at every level ” • Developing new system, patient led, local empowerment, clinical leadership, sustained focus on improving outcomes. • Achieving £15-20 bn savings to reinvest in improving quality and outcomes. • QIPP critical to support savings and reform Better Care Better Health Better Life

12. Changing Context & QIPP QIPP is about creating an environment in which change and improvement can flourish; it is about leading differently and in a way that fosters a culture of innovation; and it is about providing staff with the tools, techniques and support that will enable them to take ownership of improving quality of care. Julia RA Taylor Programme Director NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Better Care Better Health Better Life

13. Changing Context & Innovation • Need to make I of QIPP. • Important that we continue to develop a sustainable culture of innovation. • Ensure that as QIPP plans shift into QIPP/reform plans innovation still central focus. • Quality is defined as effectiveness, patient experience and safety this can be achieved through the learning and sharing of innovations. • Continue to implement and develop innovations that generate improvements and efficiencies. Better Care Better Health Better Life