Innovation

The Innovators Council: call for ideas
The purpose of the Innovators Council is to champion innovation in public services - it will be a forum for people to make suggestions for reform and challenge thinking in public service design and delivery. Have you got ideas about how people delivering public services can work better together? Have you spotted areas of duplication in public services which could be cut out? The Innovators Council is looking for ideas to make public services more efficient by building them around the needs of citizens, cutting out the waste and changing ways of working together. The Council will be meeting for the first time on 24th June and if your idea makes it onto the shortlist you will be invited to come along and take part. If your idea can be explained in a few words, you can let us know on the Public Experience website. If what you are suggesting is more complicated you can send it by e-mail or post it to Room 1.17, Admiralty Arch, Lonson SW1A 2WH.

National Innovation and Improvement Survey – deadline 8th June 2009
The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has launched the first nationwide Innovation and Improvement survey specifically designed for the NHS. It offers all NHS staff an opportunity to influence the national innovation and improvement agenda and inform the programmes of work that happen at national and regional level in the NHS over the next year. The survey, which is open to all NHS staff, takes about 10 minutes to complete and is live until 8th June. Results will only be analysed at nationwide and SHA level and will not be analysed at the level of an individual NHS organisation or team. All responses will be anonymous and no individual responses will be shared. It will not be possible for anyone to identify respondents as a result of the survey. When the survey is complete, everyone who has completed the survey will have the option to view their results in comparison to the overall responses.

Nurturing good ideas
J van den Ende, B Kijkuit
Harvard Business Review, 2009, 87(4), pp24-25
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Health Informatics

How to successfully select and implement electronic health records (EHR) in small ambulatory practice settings
NM Lorenzi, A Kouroubali, DE Detmer, M Bloomrosen
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2009, 9:15
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Benefits of information technology training to National Health Service staff in Wales
DL Warm, SE Thomas, VR Heard, VJ Jones, TM Hawkins-Brown
Learning in Health and Social Care, 2009, 8(1), pp70-80
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Health Informatics

Health Informatics Review report
This report builds on the Next Stage Review by describing how informatics is supporting the delivery of better, safer care of patients, improving the NHS through better research, planning and management, and empowering patients to make more informed choices about health and care. Click here to read the report.

Key Reports

High quality care for all: NHS next stage review – final report
The final report of Lord Darzi’s NHS Next Stage Review was published on 30th June 2008. It responds to the 10 Strategic Health Authority strategic visions and sets out a vision for an NHS with quality at its heart. High Quality Care For All sets out a new foundation for a health service that empowers staff and gives patients choice. It ensures that health care will be personalised and fair, include the most effective treatments within a safe system, and help patients to stay healthy. Click here to access the full report and the summary, and here to access the website and supporting material.