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automation; it is changing the way students learn side-by-side with tech, thanks to its capability to tailor educational approaches to match each student’s unique needs for improved comprehension and retention, while assisting student surgeons through precise robotic learning tools, or simply helping to collate relevant information for further reading on their particular clinical interests. The learning of AI principles and potentialities
must now be a central tenet of education for healthcare graduates to ensure they are prepared for its likely integration into their future work. Of course, telemedicine continues to also grow, making more efficient use of both clinician and patient time and marking a major shift in healthcare delivery, but its ability to facilitate remote learning, including simulating virtual patient interactions for students, is less widely known.
Empowering the workforce Formal NHS Scotland partner, InnoScot Health, believes that entrepreneurially focused education can not only directly inform future NHS careers but can also be vital to the development and testing of fresh innovations that will be used by the workforce. As part of a collaborative programme aiming
to develop fresh innovations that can help solve clinical problems, the organisation has helped to encourage the next generation of health and social care innovators by providing real world project briefs to teams of Heriot-Watt University engineering students, while helping them build consulting and client engagement skills. The promising ideas from NHS Scotland
innovators were first submitted to us, and we have since acted as their client and liaison point.
Aiming to trailblaze in NHS innovation is no longer a side project; it must be considered central to job roles in a pivotal climate of recovery and transformation
The learnings of the student engineering project teams – enhanced by clinical insights from Edinburgh Napier University’s nursing students and access to its specialised clinical simulation facilities – are now expected to lead to improved co-designed projects. There are currently three ideas being
developed, each originating from different health boards across the country – a catheter redesign from NHS Fife; cannula cuff from NHS Forth Valley; and wobble stool from NHS Grampian. We consider it vital that we empower NHS Scotland innovators to acquire key learnings, while providing essential support and motivation.
In a similar vein, budding Scottish healthcare
innovators are being urged to apply to the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP) as its new series of preparatory webinars gets underway. We are delighted to be supporting CEP1
both clinical and non-clinical – or studying a healthcare course that could lead to eventually working in the NHS. Such courses include, but are not limited to, medicine, nursing and midwifery, paramedic science, pharmacy, vision and hearing sciences, and clinical science. From a series of educational events and workshops focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship, to talks from founders and healthcare professionals, CEP aims to enhance your development and allow you to discover the innovative startup world of healthcare. Applications for cohort 9 will open on 1
October – but before then, organisers would like to encourage NHS Scotland innovators to familiarise themselves with the application process2
for the entrepreneurial workforce
development programme. InnoScot Health is proud to be part of a
for a third year, encouraging participation
in a programme which we believe to be transformative and inspirational for anyone looking to become an agent of change. The free CEP Prep Learning series of webinars aims to engage and inspire attendees who are keen to innovate and look for creative solutions. The sessions also provide an ideal
introductory foundation for then applying to cohort 9 of the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme this October. Criteria for webinar registrants is either working in the NHS –
collaborative group of organisations – alongside The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI), NHS Education for Scotland (NES), Scottish Enterprise, and Chief Scientist Office (CSO) - supporting Scottish innovators taking part in CEP, which is delivered by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and part of the NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC). Future programme participants will be given focused learning on how to develop the necessary know-how to successfully develop their ideas. The cohort will commence their development journey in late February/early March next year and the coordination group will continue to aid and encourage their innovation ambitions, helping them to identify channels of support while providing networking and collaboration opportunities. They represent the lifeblood of NHS Scotland’s
future as it embraces the opportunities of renewal and transformation – and it’s thanks to their involvement that the programme continues to flourish. We’re looking to make a valuable contribution
to their success by lending our own innovation expertise and support alongside other key partners. CEP is the biggest entrepreneurial workforce development programme of its kind, and we fully endorse its key aims which include supporting entrepreneurs to pursue their innovative ideas without having to leave the health service. The programme fundamentally helps the healthcare workforce to hone the commercial
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