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Completing the Picture draws high visitor numbers
£5.56 million awarded for ground-breaking surgical innovations
SBRI Healthcare has awarded over £5.56 million in funding to six pioneering medtech innovations in the fields of surgery and mental health. The funding will be used to fast-track these technologies through the next stages of commercialisation, including the development of prototypes or demonstration units.
The winning projects include cutting- edge innovations, such as augmented reality training simulators for surgeons, a video game based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and a peer-to-peer digital platform that promotes emotional and mental wellbeing.
Hundreds of visitors attended the Completing the Picture event, which took place at Hilton St George’s Park, Burton on Trent, on Wednesday 26 June 2019.
Hosted by Hillrom, the Educational Medical Devices Symposium, offered delegates opportunities for learning and networking, via an exhibition and seminars. Completing the Picture talks focused on procuring, maintaining and managing medical equipment, highlighting the importance of engineers incorporating the understanding of clinical and policy issues into their professional development plan.
Among the speakers were award-winning science journalists, Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham, who examined how medicine has advanced from “literal stabs in the dark” to implanted chips and artificial intelligence. Sue and Richard discussed the history and future of medical devices – from trepanning, blood- letting and early plastic surgery, to the first surgical chip implant in a human being, as well as the future of cybernetic technology and wearable technology - where the interface between human beings and machines becomes ever closer. Russel Turner, equipment library trainer at
Royal Derby Hospital shared his experience of integrating NEWS2 into the Trust-wide connected vital signs monitoring system. NEWS2 is the latest version of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS), updated in December 2017, which advocates a system to standardise the assessment and response to acute illness.
One of the highlights of the day was the talk given by strategic service and workforce policy analyst, Dr Patricia Oakley, who shared her insight into the NHS Long Term Plan. Dr Oakley assessed the potential impact of the
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plan, and how the strategic investment decision making and purchasing programmes will need to be organised. She focused her talk on how the major and minor capital and revenue, and PPM, budgets might be determined given the proposed developments of integrated primary care networks, and cancer and cardiac care networks within each ICS. Her comments on the potential impact of a No Deal Brexit left many of the audience visibly shocked.
Ian Coe, chief nursing information officer,
West Suffolk NHS Foundation, explained how the integration of medical devices with patient records, can create time savings and an improved patient experience. A decade ago the NHS supported a programme of quality improvements, under the banner of the ‘Productive’ series, that were designed to release more time to care for patients. Today, adopting these same principles, nurses at the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust are utilising medical devices that integrate data directly into the patient’s electronic record. Chief nursing information officer, Vicki Kaluza, discussed the complex role the EPR plays within the hospital infrastructure and how her team is supporting hospitals as they tackle their most resonant challenges; patient safety and patient flow. Concluding the day’s talks was Simon
Weston CBE. When the RFA Sir Galahad was destroyed in the Bluff Cove Air Attack during the Falklands War, Simon Weston was on board. Simon was severely injured, sustaining serious burns to 46% of his body. In his talk, he shared the struggles he went through to overcome his injuries, and how they redefined his role in life. He shared with delegates how triumph in the face of adversity can be achieved by “seizing the moment.”
All six projects were identified through a SBRI Healthcare nationwide competition that called for innovative technologies designed to solve existing problems in mental health and surgery specifically. These projects were initially identified for phase one funding in 2018, including proof-of-concept testing, and will now benefit from a second round of funding to demonstrate both technical and commercially viability. Dr Keri Torney, deputy director of life sciences, strategy and innovation at NHS England and NHS Improvement, said: “The NHS Long Term Plan reaffirms our commitment to improving mental health care and to speeding up the process of getting new innovations to patients. We are delighted to support these innovative technologies that aim to improve outcomes in mental health and surgery.” Dr Seamus O’Neill, chief executive of the AHSN NENC and chair of the AHSN Network nationally, added: “We are excited to be working with a clutch of truly innovative technologies that have the potential to tackle these very specific needs head-on. The challenge now is to support them through the next development phase to ensure these innovations can be successfully commercialised and can bring benefits to patients throughout the UK, as quickly as possible.”
Through a regular series of
competitions, SBRI Healthcare identifies, co-creates and supports businesses through early stage development of unique health technologies that can solve unmet healthcare challenges.
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