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Video guides to getting the most out of life with a long-term conditions (#2390)
Innovation 'Elevator Pitch':
The Sound Doctor is the leading source of film and audio patient information in the UK, offering a coherent and authoritative learning programme encouraging effective self-management of long-term conditions.
Overview of Innovation:
The Sound Doctor self-management library includes more than 300 short films and animations covering diabetes, COPD, dementia, heart failure and other conditions. The material is of exceptionally high quality and offers a structured programme of education, which can be a lifelong companion for people living with a long-term condition.

The aims of The Sound Doctor self-management programme are:
 
1. To reduce the number of avoidable admissions (and readmissions) to hospital
2. To reduce the need for face-to-face contact with clinicians (and to improve the quality of meetings which do take place)
3. To improve the quality of care for patients (and patient experience of their care)
4. To help people get the most out of life through effective self-management

The self-management library

Developed after consultation with key charities, leading clinicians and patient groups, the films offer detailed and practical advice about taking control of a long-term condition. There are between 40 and 60 films on each condition, including interviews with all the healthcare professionals that people will come across in the course of their journey. There is also reassuring advice from people living with each condition about taking day-to-day control. The Sound Doctor puts your healthcare team in your pocket, available 24/7.

Examples
With diabetes we cover diet, activity, medicines, blood glucose monitoring, risk factors and complications among many other aspects of living with diabetes. In the COPD library breathlessness, anxiety, exacerbations, breathing control and inhaler techniques form the basis of a structured package on all aspects of the disease.
In each case the material is motivational, positive and reassuring. 
 
Evidence and testimony
The Sound Doctor has a demonstrable role in improving self-management, reducing the need for face-to-face contact with healthcare professionals and hospital admissions. In addition it has been exceptionally well received by patients.

The films are extremely well reviewed by healthcare professionals and other experts and, in evaluations, users overwhelmingly report increased knowledge and confidence as well as fewer visits to the GP and fewer hospital admissions. We also know that the films improve people’s experience of their care, 99% willing to recommend them to others with the same condition.

The Sound Doctor is currently being used in several CCGs as well as Hospital Trusts and community pharmacies. 
Stage of Development:
Market ready and adopted - Fully proven, commercially deployable, market ready and already adopted in some areas (in a different region or sector)
WMAHSN priorities and themes addressed: 
Long term conditions: a whole system, person-centred approach / Wellness and prevention of illness / Digital health / Innovation and adoption / Person centred care
Benefit to NHS:
Effective self-management of long-term conditions is a core component in reducing costs and improving outcomes.
 
The Sound Doctor library is not an ad hoc series of films touching on a few subjects that might be of interest to someone with a long-term condition. It is a comprehensive, structured education programme that can be a companion for life.
 
An evaluation carried out in West Leicestershire in December 2016 among long-term users of The Sound Doctor found:
 
96% of users understood their condition better
98% learned new information about their condition
96% felt more confident about managing their condition effectively
88% had a better understanding of their medicines (10%not applicable)
93% have changed their self-management technique
98% found The Sound Doctor easy to use
99% found it a useful addition to their healthcare
99% would recommend The Sound Doctor to others with a similar condition
 
Crucially:
 
92% of users reported fewer visits to their GP
62% said they had been to hospital less often
 
The Sound Doctor films are designed to reduce the need for face-to-face contact with clinicians and to reduce the number of hospital admissions and re-admissions.
 
ROI
 
Costs are reduced in various ways including GP appointments at an average cost of £25 and hospital admissions. One COPD exacerbation avoided can save, on average £1,960. Our films focus on medicines management, inhalers techniques and recognising and coping with exacerbations. Other, intangible, benefits are derived from decreasing reliance on social care through increasing the independence of users.
 
In general, other costs can be reduced by:
 
  • Fewer complications of diabetes
  • More people living independently at home (reducing costs of social care)
  • Fewer bed days in hospital
  • Better adherence to medications and effective use of inhalers
  • Fewer referrals for physiotherapy caused by back pain
 
Testimony from users is exceptionally positive.
 
Why try The Sound Doctor?
 
Self-management is the key to reducing the costs of treating long-term conditions in a testing financial climate. The Sound Doctor is a class-leading information product that can achieve this.
 
“The quality of the product is, in my experience, unmatched anywhere in the world.”
Dr Charles Alessi, Senior Adviser Public Health England

For more information please contact Rosie Runciman: rosie@thesounddoctor.org (Tel) 01285 850887
Website: www.thesounddoctor.org
Initial Review Rating
5.00 (1 ratings)
Benefit to WM population:
All the benefits outline above apply equally to the West Midlands population. This is a versatile and scalable product which has been adopted in several CCGs and hospital trusts around the UK. 

We are particularly keen to develop our product and produce new material for and in the West Midlands as a local company benefiting from the Serendip programme at iCentrum.
Current and planned activity: 
When funds permit, The sound Doctor intends to continue producing new libraries of films addressing other conditions. In particular we plan a comprehensive package of films covering stress, anxiety and depression; alcohol; further musculo-skeletal conditions and weight management.
 
We are open to discussion on co-producing this and other material with CCGs, hospitals or local authorities in the West Midlands
What is the intellectual property status of your innovation?:
The Sound Doctor owns all IP in all products. Material is generally licensed to clients on an annual or monthly basis (min 12 months) and allows access for up to 100,000 users.
Return on Investment (£ Value): 
high
Return on Investment (Timescale): 
6-12 mon
Ease of scalability: 
Simple
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Connecting care with care facilities and the hospital (#2373)
Innovation 'Elevator Pitch':
Reduce bed blocking and improve ward care by enabling ward access to digital data upon admission of personal knowledge of the patient including This Is Me, My Passport and Risk data, and assist with step down process and therapy.
Overview of Innovation:
ReMe supports dementia, older people, carers and families and accompanies the person across their care journey. ReMe was trialled and co-produced by dom care, care homes and in wards.

A new breed, we’ve christened ReMe ‘Activity Based’ software, to differentiate from care planning. For patient knowledge and the ability to enhance care comes from activities, not data input. By using algorithms to source bespoke internet images, music and videos and define a profile it’s possible to deliver more person-centred care. At ReMe’s core are activity tools that learn about the person, such as reminiscence and cognitive therapy, and enable discovering calming content for acute care strategies. ReMe stores life stories, preferences and interests and connects with a care circle, as well as creating automated activity reports which can be sent to the user's family.

Around this person-centred care core are business tools each care sector’s needs. Therefore, ReMe achieves an ROI by assisting in client acquisition, care assessment, acute care planning, management and paper reduction, activity creation, scheduling and data collation, whilst providing family and admin reporting. With cross care sector data connectivity and real portability, ReMe becomes part of a dementia acute care strategy.

For care in the community, ReMe’s free with premium subscriber services. With self-management, connectivity, entertainment and activities and by generating data, ReMe supports daily care, celebrates a life, strengthens family links and tackles agitation, depression and isolation, becoming a highly-personalised resource and recourse.

ReMe is used currently in the following care sectors.
  • For dom care, ReMe improves care, client engagement, reports and generates extra revenue through selling extra hours based on a wellbeing and family connected value added service.
  • For care homes, ReMe helps families engage in the care process, carers use tablets productively, reduces paper and enhances activities, therapy and reporting. ReMe improves care and saves money.
  • For hospitals, ReMe is a low-cost means to better know the patient; that improves admission, through digital connection to the care home and dom carer providing access to knowledge of the patients’ ‘day before’ care profile. ReMe enhances person centred care, patient wellbeing, reporting and stepdown.
ReMe is easily adopted with no legacy software or training needs.
Stage of Development:
Market ready and adopted - Fully proven, commercially deployable, market ready and already adopted in some areas (in a different region or sector)
WMAHSN priorities and themes addressed: 
Long term conditions: a whole system, person-centred approach / Digital health
Benefit to NHS:
RemindMeCare (ReMe) delivers savings for the NHS through its care in the community self-management functionality reducing admissions, an improved admissions process (i.e. Digital This Is Me, Risk and My Health Passport), enhanced in-ward care, reduced medication and more informed step down.

ReMe provides connectivity with care homes, domiciliary care, day care centres and families, and enables better knowledge of the person to be used in person-centred care delivery.

Continuity of bespoke, tech advanced activities and therapies, that enhance patient wellbeing, engagement, person centred care and acute dementia care, generate improved patient outcomes, reduced agitation, medication and drugs costs, as well as better informed step down and earlier discharge.

Increased availability of personal and risk data reduces risk (and possibly litigation), resort to medication and wellbeing decline, so ReMe aims to reduce bed days.

ReMe supports improved family visits and overnight stays through the provision of familiar content and entertainment.

Automatic care activities recording, for CQC/admin reporting and research is available.

Evidence of value is shown only by the demand and positive feedback received from care homes, LA’s, hospitals and families nationwide but will be formalised shortly.

ReMe addresses the Next Steps NHS Five Year Forward View; by reducing A&E/GP visits, making patients information available to clinicians; enabling prescribing apps to help people manage their own health, addressing loneliness and aiding carer respite and assisting LA requirements regarding services provision and monitoring.
 
We’re pioneering this connected care approach in conjunction with SWLCC 5-year strategy, focussing on care quality, safety and cost savings, addressing the defined challenges of avoiding hospital admission, supporting ‘Community services to meet the highest standards and working more closely with primary care, mental health, acute hospital services and social care’. Our participation in the Better Care funded Croydon APA project defines ReMe’s role in the budget shift from hospitals to the integration of health and social care, through the coordination of care. Critically, ReMe addresses recommendations by NICE to focus on person centred and family care support through engaging consumers with a user-friendly product that promotes self-management of illness including long term conditions.
Initial Review Rating
4.20 (2 ratings)
Benefit to WM population:
RemindMeCare delivers support for older people and people with dementia, their carers and families and which is portable and usable by their carers, from home to domiciliary, live-in, day care, residential and ward care. ReMe was developed with people in the NHS and trialled in wards and care homes.

ReMe is a new breed we’ve christened ‘Activity Based’ software to differentiate itself from care planning software. For knowledge of the person and the ability to enhance care is derived from activity provision, not from data input.
By providing self-management tools and engaging activities and by generating data, ReMe supports daily care, celebrates a life, strengthens links with family and tackles agitation, depression and isolation. ReMe becomes a daily highly personalised resource and recourse for those people involved in care.

ReMe’s suite of person-centred care algorithm based activity tools enhance care and are the constant core across all care sectors, and continually learn about the person wherever they may be. ReMe’s the only system that offers bespoke reminiscence and cognitive therapy by sourcing images, music and videos that are unique to the user and so enables discovering calming content for acute care strategies. ReMe stores life stories, preferences and interests with carers and a care circle, as well as creating automated activity reports which can be sent to the user's family.

Wrapped around this person-centred care core are business tools that address the needs of each care sector encountered by the person, including those common to all such as CQC reporting and family engagement.
RemindMeCare goes further, achieving an ROI for care businesses and wards by assisting in care assessment, acute care planning, management and paper reduction, activity creation/scheduling/planning and data collation, whilst providing family, admin and regulatory body reporting. With cross care sector data connectivity and real portability, ReMe becomes part of a dementia acute care strategy for whichever care sector at any time is caring for the person. For the ward, ReMe offers access to the vital knowledge of ‘the day before’ care profile of the admitted patient and the benefits that enhanced person centred care can deliver.

Usable on any platform and with encrypted data, ico compliance (G Cloud pending), ReMe has addressed information governance and digital security.

Please view videos (https://www.remindmecare.com/business/ward/ )
Current and planned activity: 
ReMeApp: self-management care tools that assist maintain care in the community, improve the ability of carers to deliver bespoke care and connect the person with their care circle and with their community; to reduce resort to GP and A&E through enhanced care circle engagement. Dementia care training is included and partnerships with Dementia Pathfinders and Worcester University will be extended achieve delivery.

ReMeData: Integration with Care Planning systems; ie with patient’s systems (such as CMC) and others as required.ReMeGP: GP Connectivity. Through remote connectivity tools GP’s can remain engaged, be better informed but on a remote basis. The intended result is less resort to disturbing surgery visits. GP connectivity will be release in 2018.

ReMeComm: self-management care tools for those cared for in the community, that match the person cared for with local community activities (A partnership pending with Worcester University, CarersUK, MeetingDem and others.
What is the intellectual property status of your innovation?:
We are the sole owners of our IP
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Return on Investment (£ Value): 
Very high
Return on Investment (Timescale): 
0-6 mon
Ease of scalability: 
Simple
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Backpack-Friendly Professional Support When You Need It Most (#2369)
Innovation 'Elevator Pitch':
We enable employers to provide a one stop support package for employees in times of need. They phone a single phone line to access support for issues inc. emotional support, managing physical & LTC's and providing signposting to local services 
 
Overview of Innovation:
What is BackPack?
Backpack enables employers to provide a one stop support package for their employees in times of need.
Employees phone a single phone line to access support for a range of issues including emotional support, managing physical and long term conditions and providing signposting support to local services offering support in a range of areas including managing finance, debt and other issues. 
The BACKPACK Online Portal
Clients log in with their membership reference to access;
 
Information on;
  • Long Term condition management
  • Local information to support
  • How to access BACKPACK services
 
Access to;
  • Self-Diagnostic forms
  • Quizzes and exercises
  • Checklists
  • Webinars and video information
  • Useful articles and Blogs
 
What Support Is Provided?
Lifestyle Support around long-term conditions- diabetes, HIV, other
Emotional Support 
 
Stage of Development:
Trial stage - Trial stage to prove that the idea actually works as intended
WMAHSN priorities and themes addressed: 
Mental Health: recovery, crisis and prevention / Long term conditions: a whole system, person-centred approach / Wellness and prevention of illness / Education, training and future workforce / Wealth creation / Digital health / Innovation and adoption / Person centred care
Benefit to NHS:
People with mental and physical health conditions will learn to self manage and are less likely to present to primary or secondary care. This will reduce the pressure on services.
This early intervention model, which follows the Preventative Model will reduce demand on the health and social care ecosystem.
We will evaluate the project outcomes. 
We will share best practice
Proactively identify needs through the 'on-boarding' triage programme
Initial Review Rating
4.60 (1 ratings)
Benefit to WM population:
We seek to improve the physical, social and mental well-being of the WM population
People in the WM will recive fast and easy access to personalised care at the early stages of their needs
People will be able to access information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week- at a time to suit them
People will grow their capacity to self manage their own condition or that of the people they care for.
Easy access to mental health resources will help to prevent conditions escalating, improving the recovery time.
Deliver value to the client form first contact through proactively identifying needs at the 'on-boarding' triage programme
Current and planned activity: 
We plan to pull on all our strengths to deliver this innovative programme;
Health Exchange's current triage system used to deliver a holistic well being service for NHS
Citizen Coaching's online course delivery and impact measurement framework. Citizen is a member of Living Well Consortium- delivering IAPT (Improving Access to Psychological Therapy) inteventions.
Our indepth knowledge of the employee assistance market 
Our multi-channel approach to well-being services, blending online and physical interventions
I-SE's strength in taking social enterprises to the market place and operationalising new concepts

 
What is the intellectual property status of your innovation?:
BACKPACK (TM) This will be a collaboration between Health Exchange, I-SE (Initiative for Social Entrepreneurs) and Citizen Coaching. We seek advice on how to progress this. All three busineses are social enterprises.
Return on Investment (£ Value): 
high
Return on Investment (Timescale): 
0-6 mon
Ease of scalability: 
Simple
Co-Authors:
Graham Beaumont
Sarah Crawley
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Amaven Exercise Medicine: Prevention and Recovery Through Exercise (#2357)
Innovation 'Elevator Pitch':
Amaven is an online health, fitness and wellbeing profiling tool which measures, tracks and improves bio-motor abilities and prescribes evidence-based physical activity programmes to prevent and treat medical conditions and age-related diseases.
Overview of Innovation:
The Amaven programme adheres to up-to-date guidelines & best practise to deliver an effective & safe approach to caring for the wellbeing of older people. All our programmes have been designed by occupational therapists/physical activity specialists. One of our exercise programmes is based on the Otago exercise programme which has been proven to reduce falls and injuries from falls.


We follow guidelines from: CQC, DH, NICE falls guidance, Cochrane Reviews, Sherrington Effective Exercise to Prevent Falls Review, Public Health England, British Heart Foundation National Centre Research, FaME trial. 

Health, fitness & wellbeing profiling tool. We use health assessments to identify risks & create an in-depth health, fitness & wellbeing profile for individuals. Assessments are simple to do & can be carried out by family members, care workers/other professionals or Amaven Health Mentors. Regular assessments produce evidence of progress or deterioration, highlight risks & can lead to prevention of damage. Information can be shared via reports with individuals & organisations involved in their care.


Person-centred wellbeing programmes. Specific scores & indicators are used to inform a personalised activity programme that can be done safely at home or in other settings, either done individually or in a group all activities prescribed promote physical, social & emotional health to positively impact an individual's life. 

Individual health assessments provide practitioners with a complete picture of a person’s health helping to identify any risks & prevent potential injuries. Staff can discuss results with relevant professionals such as GPs if the person needs additional help. All information a person chooses to share is confidential unless they wish to share it further. They can log onto the Amaven platform at any time & view their wellbeing profile. 

Amaven is personalised to the needs of the individual & a personalised activity plan is generated to work on areas that need greatest attention. The programme also helps to create a wellbeing community in residential homes & group activity sessions help people to be more social. 

Staff will be fully trained to use the Amaven platform & receive on-going support (phone/email) if required, using the information gathered to work with the individual’s practitioners & family members to improve the delivery of care. 

Visit the website & learn more about our programmes for Independent Living, In-care, Low Back Pain & Parkinson's.
Stage of Development:
Market ready and adopted - Fully proven, commercially deployable, market ready and already adopted in some areas (in a different region or sector)
WMAHSN priorities and themes addressed: 
Long term conditions: a whole system, person-centred approach / Wellness and prevention of illness
Benefit to NHS:
Early intervention is proven to reduce costs significantly.
 
Amaven is an online health, fitness & wellbeing profiling tool which measures, tracks & improves bio-motor abilities & prescribes physical activities to prevent & treat medical conditions & age-related diseases.
 
The programme is designed for older people to stay independent & allow them to live in their own homes & keep them out of hospitals & care homes. 
 
Falls remain a major cause of injury & death amongst the over 70s & account for more than 50% of hospital admissions for accidental injury. Hip fractures resulting from falls are reported to be the most serious type of injury, affecting approximately 60,000 people per year in the UK (Husk et al. 2008).  
  • 1/3 of all UK households are older households*
  • 3.5 million 65+ live alone (36% of all people aged 65+ in GB)*
  • 2 million people over 75 live alone*
  • There are 11.6 million people aged 65 or over in the UK*
  • Falls are the largest cause of emergency hospital admissions for older people & significantly impact on long term outcomes*
  • Falls account for up to 40% of ambulance call-outs to homes for people aged 65+ costing £115 per callout*
* Source Age UK, Later Life in the United Kingdom, June 2016
 
Amaven tracks progress to highlight impact, inform personal needs & deliver specific outcomes. Specific programmes for strength & balance have been shown to reduce the risk of falls by as much as 60 percent (Skelton, 2001).
 
The Amaven platform adopts a person-centred approach to wellbeing. The activity programmes have been designed to build resistance against conditions such as osteoporosis & dementia & improve the overall health & wellbeing of older people. 
 
Low back pain is a major health-care problem resulting in disability & often depression & job-loss. It is reported that 60-80% of the population suffer from low back pain.
 
For Parkinson’s, in addition to medications, there are some activities that may ease the motor symptoms of Parkinson’s, improve quality of life & increase adherence to the medication. There is also now scientific evidence to suggest that certain activities, including exercise, social connectedness & creativity may not only be therapeutic for Parkinson’s symptoms, but could alter the brain by creating new pathways of communication among brain cells & to create new cells.
 
Visit our website to learn more about the Amaven programmes for Independent living, In-Care, Low Back Pain & Parkinson's.
Initial Review Rating
4.60 (1 ratings)
Benefit to WM population:
Demand pressures facing the NHS are increasing with emergency admissions crowding out elective admissions. Cost pressures facing the NHS include a growing and ageing population, the increasing prevalence of chronic conditions across all age groups, and the rising cost of delivering care.
 
Amaven is an online health, fitness and wellbeing profiling tool which measures, tracks and improves bio-motor abilities and prescribes physical activities to prevent and treat medical conditions and age-related diseases.
 
The platform is a cost effective and convenient tool that helps health practitioners to deliver outstanding care, keeping people independent in their own homes and out of hospitals and care homes.
 
National data shows that the number of hospital admissions amongst older people is increasing. Over the last 10 years hospital discharges (and therefore admissions) for those over 75 have been rising at a much faster rate than ageing trends in the population; almost four times faster (38% compared to 10%)*.
 
The growth in hospital readmissions has been higher still, up by 86% for those over 75. This national picture is supported by the results of research by Royal Voluntary Service: of 401 people over 75 who had been in hospital within the last 5 years, 13% had been readmitted within three months. * (* source:  Royal Voluntary Service)
 
Amaven will prescribe personalised activity programmes that promote physical, social, and emotional health to reduce the incidence of frailty and falls. Regardless of age or ability, personalised physical activities will be prescribed to either maintain or develop the key components of health, helping the individual stay active and self-sufficient into old age.
 
By supporting people effectively in the community, Amaven can help those with long-term health and care needs to stay out of hospital or residential care, thereby reducing costs to the NHS and social care by avoiding the need for more costly interventions whilst maximising outcomes for patients and service users.
 
Click here to watch how Amaven has helped the residents of St Johns Nursing Home in Bromsgrove. 
Current and planned activity: 
We would like to see greater regional awareness and adoption of the Amaven Exercise Medicine Programme, working in partnership with providers to focus on individual patient outcomes and to effectively embed technology enabled care to deliver services that are truly person centred. 
Return on Investment (£ Value): 
N/A
Return on Investment (Timescale): 
N/A
Ease of scalability: 
Simple
Commercial information:
Market ready and adopted - Fully proven, commercially deployable, market ready and already adopted in some areas (or in a different region or sector)

The platform is in over 200 schools, is being used in the fitness industry and a pilot programme has been delivered in care homes in the West Midlands. It is also part of a large Sports England bid in partnership with Active Cheshire and Manchester Metropolitan University.
Investment activity:
Currently we have not received any investment, however will be seeking investment in the near future.
Regional Scalability:
Apart from initial training and support and ongoing email and telephone support, the programme is delivered through an online platform which is designed to be person centred. It will therefore be easy to provide across the region and further afield.
Measures:
The platform includes an assessment aspect which generates reports as and when the user/s require. Through regular assessments (3 months, 6 months, etc.) comparable data will be generated to identify and monitor the user's heath, using specific indicators such as risk of falls, strength, balance, cognitive function, etc.

Reports can be generated for an individual, a group or a whole setting or area, providing robust data for the user as per their needs and requirements.

As much of the programme is delivered through the platform it is very cost-effective and not labour intesive.

The aim of the programme is to identify, prevent or improve older people's well-being, specifically focussing on risk of falls and frailty.
Investment sought:
We have not yet gained any investment as the programme is still at the pilot stage.

We are not seeking a fixed sum as we can develop smaller or larger aspects of the programme as per investment we may gain.
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