InnoScot Well being is aiming to assist NHS Scotland enhance girls’s well being with a contemporary innovation name focused at being pregnant and perinatal remedy and care.
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The brand new name will probably be open for submissions on Wednesday 7 June and seeks to encourage contemporary concepts and new considering from all well being care employees to advertise and help good baby and maternal well being.
It’s an space of intense focus for the Scottish Authorities. Its Girls’s Well being Plan (2021-2024) set out a daring technique to enhance well being and cut back well being inequalities; long-term plans for enhancing maternity and neonatal care are being remobilised following the pandemic and Getting it proper for each baby (GIRFEC) is a continued dedication to offering all youngsters, younger individuals, and their households with the proper help on the proper time.
InnoScot Well being is a proper associate of NHS Scotland and believes that figuring out concepts drawn from the deep experience and expertise of the workforce can enhance how the service gives the proper care for each girl and child, whereas giving all youngsters the very best begin in life.
Inspiring this various workforce to give you new methods of working is important, and to assist encourage employees to come back ahead with revolutionary concepts, InnoScot Well being’s bundle of help for NHS Scotland employees consists of help as much as the worth of £25k for preliminary seed funding, regulatory help, challenge administration, and the in depth innovation experience of its extremely skilled crew.
Concepts that InnoScot Well being are on the lookout for may embody:
- Gadgets for managing and monitoring being pregnant
- Improvements to enhance labour and supply
- Applied sciences for neonates needing specialist care
- Bettering outcomes for moms with co-morbidities
- Assist for girls experiencing psychological well being issues earlier than and after supply
It is important that we enhance the outcomes of maternity and neonatal look after all girls, infants, and households in Scotland, and place extra deal with psychological well being and inequalities.
In 2020, girls have been 3 times extra more likely to die by suicide throughout or as much as six weeks after the top of being pregnant in comparison with 2017-2019. We additionally know black and Asian girls have the next likelihood of dying throughout being pregnant in comparison with white girls, whereas additional inequalities stay a difficulty.
However we have now a possibility to work collaboratively to enhance being pregnant and perinatal companies and are calling on NHS Scotland employees who’ve huge expertise and perception to come back ahead with their concepts and options.
Workforce innovators with breakthrough concepts may be the distinction that makes for improved affected person outcomes.”
Robert Rea, Head of Innovation, InnoScot Well being
Because it was arrange in 2002, InnoScot Well being has developed a spread of medical gadgets, merchandise, and applied sciences to be used in hospitals, care properties and on-scene emergency settings, each in Scotland and around the globe. It helped to pioneer the Ambulance Baby Restraint (ACR)®, a versatile, totally harnessing system used for the protected, safe and efficient transport of infants and youngsters in an ambulance.
The patented two-part system was an thought of Keith Colver and David Fitzpatrick from Scottish Ambulance Service, developed alongside InnoScot Well being and Light-weight Medical.
The Kids’s Acute Transport Service, NHS an infection management officers, and paediatric ICU specialists at Glasgow’s Yorkhill Hospital for Sick Kids additional contributed to ACR® improvement and it’s now manufactured by ParAid Medical after being adopted throughout Scotland.
InnoScot Well being is usually a very important associate within the journey from analysis to deployment for innovation in being pregnant and perinatal remedy and care.
Within the case of the extremely profitable Ambulance Baby Restraint®, we labored with all events to facilitate the design and improvement, IP safety, and put in place crucial authorized agreements.
We hope to duplicate this success with our newest themed name. The intention is to encourage bespoke options to on a regular basis points from the individuals who work throughout the service and infrequently greatest perceive the challenges. Our industrial help then helps translate concepts into services and products that may then be deployed again into the NHS, leading to improved outcomes, higher processes, and a extra sustainable well being service.
Gillian Henderson, Head of Mission Administration, InnoScot Well being
The decision welcomes concepts – easy or advanced – from any NHS well being board and employees throughout all roles.
Concepts may be submitted on-line by way of www.innoscot.com. As soon as submitted, they are going to be evaluated by an professional crew and chosen improvements will then have entry to a bundle of help.
