Our participation in the EXPO

The SHA will be showcasing information from some of our local award winners at the National Expo on the 6th & 7th October 2010, and a number of innovations linked to the eight clinical pathway groups which developed our regional strategy “Healthier Horizons”

Welcome and introduction: Kirsten Major, Director of Health Reform  NHSNW

Please note: the following presentations, showcases and stands are all still to be confirmed.

Film presentation

WOW Wednesday – film showcasing Alder Hey Hospital’s population health approach, which led to them becoming the first WHO accredited Health promoting specialist hospital
Presented by Moya Sutton, Executive Nurse, Alder hey Childrens’ Hospital
This programme “Because your Health Matters” won the SHA innovation award for the impact on health in 2008.  This wide ranging programme engages children and parents in key healthy lifestyle education programmes during their interactions with the hospital which is a tertiary centre.

10 min PowerPoint presentations:

Urgent care : Ambulance Workforce Transformation
Presented by Kerry Hemsworth, NHSNW and John Gillespie, NWAS
A short 10 min presentation describing a radical approach to transforming the role of the paramedic, including new qualifications and a career ladder for technicians to become paramedic practitioners

Clinical Management System
Presented by NWAS (tbc)
Demonstration of the innovative Clinical Management System developed by the NW ambulance service.Details to be forwarded

DVD loop on SHA stand:

Birth clinical pathway group : NHS East Lancashire DVD on post-natal care

“Held” showreel part of the Art exhibition currently on display at Manchester Art Gallery on mental health well-being.

Poster presentation:

Staying healthy clinical pathway group “Our Life” social marketing programme (tbc)

Poster presentation:

Mental Health Clinical pathway Group: “Held” an exhibition at Manchester Art gallery by Wendy Teall, of Manchester Mental Health and Social Care trust.  The Start Art project is a collaboration hosted by Manchester Mental health and social care trust which is using art to improve the mental wellbeing of the city’s residents.  The powerful illustrations and poems give an insight into the issues faced by service users in their everyday lives and during their interactions with healthcare services.

Poster presentation:

Childrens clinical pathway group: Scanspeak, a software system developed by NHS Ashton Leigh and Wigan speech and language therapy team, winner of the TrusTECH innovation award in 2008.
The idea for ScanSpeak  arose 6 years ago following experience in helping very severely disabled children acquire language skills. These patients had such severe disabilities that they were unable to access conventional assistive communication technology that relies on the ability to interface with a keyboard or mouse. Whilst specialist assistive communication devices were available, the speech and language therapists recognised that the software installed on these devices was based on conventional grammatical rules, it did not reflect the processes via which young children acquire language skills and as a result could inhibit an individual’s learning process. ScanSpeak  originated as a set of laminated cards in which words and themes were arranged semantically and split into logical categories that children would select to build up sentences. Based on the success of this initial approach,the speech and language therapists converted ScanSpeak   into a page-set that can be loaded onto a range of assistive communication devices. The vocabulary is arranged over 20 pages with up to 96 symbols per page organised into 6 blocks of 16 symbols

Poster presentation:

Planned care Clinical Pathway group: OSCAR pre-operative assessment tool developed by Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospitals Trust Further detail to be provided

Poster presentation:

Urgent Care clinical pathway group: Ambulance Workforce Transformation from NW Ambulance Service. A radical approach to transforming the role of the paramedic, including new qualifications and a career ladder for technicians to become paramedic practitioners

Poster presentation:

Long Term Conditions clinical pathway group: COPD – avoiding emergency admissions : Met office with NHS Manchester and Salford.  The Met Office are working with PCTs within the NW to provide an early warning system for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease of weather conditions which can cause exacerbations of their condition leading to hospital admission.

Poster presentation:

End of Life Care: Professor John Ellershaw, Marie Curie, (Tbc)

Poster presentation:

European Working Time Directive: an  innovative approach : Deborah Kendall, NW Deanery, winner of the HSJ award 2008. Further details to be provided