Achieve a 10% reduction in numbers of pre-term births through the better management of risks.
Start date: 26/02/2012
Closing date: 01/06/2012
The NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes focus on tackling the biggest health and social care challenges we face today. They are awarded for the achievement of significant breakthroughs that have been focused on a specific objective relating to an important health challenge.
This is the application centre for the NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes. Please register your details and then create your application by clicking on one of the challenges below. You can save your application as draft at any time. If you have any questions regarding the process, please contact us.
MEDICINES – REDUCING WASTE, INCREASING BENEFITSTo reduce avoidable medicines waste by 50% and increase adherence to high cost and critical medicines regimens by 30%. Start date: 26/02/2012 Closing date: 01/06/2012 |
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CONTROL OF INFECTIONA Reduction of MSSA (Methicillin-sensitive staphylococcus aureus) and/or E.COLI Bactraemias across a health economy by 30% Start date: 26/02/2012 Closing date: 01/06/2012 |
EARLIER CANCER DIAGNOSISAchieve a step change in the proportion of patients diagnosed with cancer at stages 1 and 2 rather than at the later stages (3 and 4). Start date: 26/02/2012 Closing date: 01/06/2012 |
RECEIVING EMERGENCY CARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE, FIRST TIMETo increase the number of people who receive emergency care in the right place and complete their care in the first location Start date: 26/02/2012 Closing date: 01/06/2012 |
REDUCING AVOIDABLE ATTENDANCES IN PRIMARY CAREReducing avoidable attendances occurring in a primary care setting (GP, Dentists, Pharmacists, AHP or Optician) by 20% with no reduction in the care and quality of the service. Start date: 26/02/2012 Closing date: 01/06/2012 |
Improved diagnostic investigationIntroduce innovative redesign of services coupled with newer uses of technology to enable the right diagnostics to be performed first time and be acted upon faster to: improve patient pathways, experience and outcomes; reduce diagnostic turnaround times to action by at least 50% or reduce inappropriate demand by at least 20% and/or enable at least 25% of appropriate tests to be provided in the community or by direct access. Start date: 26/02/2012 Closing date: 01/06/2012 |
Identification and diagnosis of COPDUse newer technology and other innovations to redesign services: to improve identification and diagnosis of the disease by 25% and reduce the current misdiagnosis level to below the current 30% and/or reduce admissions and readmissions by 33% Start date: 26/02/2012 Closing date: 01/06/2012 |
Reducing Falls and falls injuriesUse collaborative approaches to achieve, for residents in Long-Term Care Settings, at least a 20% reduction in each of the following five measures: falls; falls Injuries; falls-related hospital admissions; falls-related ambulance call outs; and the number of fallers who have a subsequent fall within 12 months. Start date: 26/02/2012 Closing date: 01/06/2012 |
