Innovation in Healthcare

In this episode, Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria Programme Manager Paula Elliott, leads a discussion on Martha's Rule and how we have supported the implementation of this major Patient Safety initiative across NHS Trusts in the North East and North Cumbria. In May 2024, NHS England announced the implementation of Martha’s Rule across 143 pilot sites across the country. From Apri...

In the second of two episodes, bringing together our Women’s Health and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention programmes, we explore the cardiovascular disease for women in relation to health inequalities. We discuss how social inequalities can have a knock-on effect for cardiovascular disease risk, and highlight the Healthy Heart Checks (https://healthinnovationnenc.org.uk/what-we-do/improving-po...

In the first of two episodes, bringing together our Women’s Health and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention programmes, we will explore the unique cardiovascular risk factors for women. In this special podcast for International Women’s Day, our guests discuss how menopause can impact cardiovascular disease risk and why it’s important to have a healthy heart check and to know your numbers, especia...

Professor Dean Fathers is the Chair of Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria, and he recently attended a trade mission to Romania organised by the RISE Institute. In this episode, Dean leads a conversation with Dr Dawn Price and Jonathan Rowley, who were also part of the delegation, and they share their learnings - on how internationalisation - can improve and benefit innovative healt...

As part our Medicines Optimisation work, the Medicines Safety Improvement Programme (MedSIP) aims to reduce inappropriate high dose opiate prescriptions for non-cancer pain, and supports better management of chronic pain across the North East and North Cumbria. In this episode, Victoria Strassheim (https://healthinnovationnenc.org.uk/team/victoria-strassheim/) , our Pain workstream programme l...

Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria has partnered with NHS England’s Digital First Primary Care Team to deliver Digital Pioneers (https://healthinnovationnenc.org.uk/what-we-do/driving-digital-transformation/digital-pioneers/) – a programme that aims to facilitate collaboration, exchange ideas and support the scale and spread of digital health innovations within primary care. In thi...

Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria’s Medicines Optimisation programme launched in 2013, and aims to ensure patients get the best from their medicines to improve outcomes. As part of this work, the Medicines Safety Improvement Programme (MedSIP) aims to reduce inappropriate high-dose opiate prescriptions for non-cancer pain, and supports better management of chronic pain across the ...

In this podcast, Peter Lillie, Sustainability Innovation Manager for Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria, and Dr Matthew Sawyer, a North East GP and Director of SEE Sustainability, explore the NHS commitment to reach Net Zero. They discuss some of the positive things that can be done to affect climate change, alongside some of the drivers for change that we are seeing both regionall...

The Academic Health Science Network North East North Cumbria (https://ahsn-nenc.org.uk/what-we-do/improving-population-health/cardiovascular-disease-prevention/) delivers a national programme of work looking at cholesterol and lipid optimisation. Recently, a number of new non-statin treatments that have been made available on the lipid pathway, which will help patients to reduce their choleste...

Dr Joe Chidanyika (https://ahsn-nenc.org.uk/team/dr-joe-chidanyika/)  is Programme Manager for the National Accelerated Access Collaborative and AHSN’s Lipid and FH Programme. In this episode, Joe talks to our Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Programme Lead, Kate Mackay, about his passion for CVD, particularly when it comes to improving health inequalities. He also highlights how his other passio...

Karen Hooper, Midwifery Lead for the National Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme (MatNeoSIP) (https://www.ahsn-nenc.org.uk/what-we-do/transforming-patient-safety-and-quality-improvement/maternity-and-neonatal/) , hosts a conversation about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic during pregnancy. This episode highlights World Patient Safety Day - the theme for 2021 is 'safe matern...

In this episode - Patient Safety Collaborative Programme Lead, Tony Roberts (https://www.ahsn-nenc.org.uk/team/tony-roberts/) talks to the team behind Covid Oximetry @home for the Tees Valley CCG - one of three national pilot sites for the NHS, mobilised for rapid adoption of an innovative programme at the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020. The Tees Valley Covid Oximetry @home project has w...

The first in a series of podcasts with our Associate Director, Jody Nichols (https://www.ahsn-nenc.org.uk/team/jody-nichols/) . In this episode, Jody discusses the Innovation Pathway and the development of OMNIA and the evaluation ecosystem with fellow Associate Director, Rachel Morris (https://www.ahsn-nenc.org.uk/team/rachel-morris/) . Read Jody's blog here (http://www.ahsn-nenc.org.uk/blog...