Cancer Diagnosis Becomes Clear at NHS Innovation Competition
The Yorkshire and Humber NHS Innovation Competition, is designed to provide the opportunity for NHS employees to showcase innovations that have the ability to provide improvements in healthcare delivery in their departments, organisations or the wider NHS, with each winner receiving a £2000 innovation development prize.
The overall winner then goes through to the NHS National Technology Awards, alongside winners from other NHS innovation hubs. World class innovation was on display from this year’s entrants, seeing some truly innovative solutions to healthcare problems, with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Head of Radiological Physics, Giles Morrison, winning the Eversheds Medical Device/Diagnostics Award, for his Dynamic Cardiac CT Phantom.
The device is used to ensure the performance and accuracy of Cardiac CT Scanners, a new technology that helps determine the extent of heart disease and then helps identify the appropriate treatment, a key tool in the Governments drive to bolster screening services across the country.
Bipin Bhakta of Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust won the UDL Assistive Technology and Rehabilitation Award for his robotic system to aid stroke recovery. The innovation allows the patient to undergo additional therapeutic exercise, with minimal input from the therapist, addressing the shortage of hands-on therapy available to stroke patients in the UK.
Mr Bhakta was also the overall winner, and will go through to compete in the NHS National Innovation Awards. Amanda Jackson from Barnsley Primary Care Trust picked up the Yorkshire Forward Publications Award for the creation of a parent information leaflet for newborn skincare. This was created in response to a lack of qualified information on how to treat newborn skin properly, and identifies issues such as the avoidance of baby toiletries in the first few weeks of life.
The Yorkshire Bank Software and ICT Award went to Prashant Verma, of the Sheffield Teaching Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust Medical Physics Department, for the development of a software package for photo-therapy treatment planning. The package allows patients undergoing ultraviolet treatment for conditions such as psoriasis and dermatitis to be treated more effectively by providing the dermatology nurse with the most appropriate follow up treatment time, something which is key in this area as doses can be escalated at each treatment stage.
Richard Clark, CEO of Medipex, the organisation that handles innovation across the region’s NHS said: “The Yorkshire and Humber NHS Innovation Competition is now in its fourth year, and each time we are surprised to see the strength and depth of innovation across Yorkshire and Humber’s NHS. The region is home to truly world class services and innovation, and it is a privilege to play a part in rewarding these achievements.”
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