Course: Understanding Innovation in the Healthcare Sciences

The wider adoption of your innovation is not the end of the story. Continual reflection and refinement of your solution/innovation should occur. Below we discuss the continual circle of improvement. …

Below we recap our thoughts around stakeholders and emphasise the importance of all stakeholders, including patients and carers, in dissemination. Lindsey Brown is a lay representative at the University of …

You have an innovative idea and have gained support from stakeholders and funders. You have piloted your innovation and have been able to demonstrate its success. We will now look …

In Week 3, you have learnt about how to develop, project plan and manage time and resources using simple techniques and tools. We also learnt about techniques to measure the …

Here we will consider techniques and tools to further evaluate pilot studies and how to measure the impact of change. This will allow you to measure the success of your …

Through this step we will consider the importance of demonstrating an improvement as a result of your innovation. If no improvement can be demonstrated, it is unlikely that your innovation …

You may have a really good innovation idea, which should produce great improvements in the patient pathway. Discussion with stakeholders may also have led to high levels of support for …

In Step 2.5 we noted that in order to secure funding you will need to provide a business case. In this step we will explore the key features of a …

In this step, we discuss the tools and techniques available for project planning. Project planning should include every step of your innovation project, from project initiation to dissemination. This will …

In this step, we will discuss techniques used to measure current service and formulate a baseline. In this context a baseline is what happens now, for example the current waiting …

In Week 2, you reflected on your own knowledge to identify and find support for your project. We then considered sources of local, regional and national support. We began to …

In previous steps, you have identified your innovation idea, recognised who your stakeholders are, and started to develop your business case. To ensure buy-in and collaboration from your stakeholders, you …

In Step 2.3 we looked at sources of local support. If you wish for your innovation to be more widely adopted, you will also need to seek support further afield. …

In this step we are providing a guide to the different sources of support available to you as an innovator. The guide revisits local support, but also expands this to …

As we saw in Week 1, in order for innovation to be successful, you will need support. Support can come from many places and via a number of different stakeholders. …