Innovation belongs to all of us and needs to be embedded in our work every day to continue to provide high quality care for our patients, their carers and families and to support our workforce.
It’s really important that we embrace both invention and adoption so that new solutions are developed and implemented at pace.
We’ve launched an innovation pathway, a process to help support the development of solutions across the trust, focusing on four steps – include, understand, test and share.
We’re building and strengthening our networks and working closely with industry and the regional and national healthcare system.
We have developed a range of case studies to showcase initiatives developed by colleagues.
Read our innovation case studies
Clinical Entrepreneur Programme
Newcastle Hospitals is an ‘In Site’ test bed site for the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, helping to develop and evaluate new solutions to benefit staff and patients.
Our clinical entrepreneurs are working to transform services and develop innovations including support for our young patients with sensory needs, those children and young people undergoing treatment for cancer, and adults with pelvic health problems.
Our innovation team works with colleagues and partners to help nurture and develop solutions to turn them into reality. Discover out more about their work.
Festive innovation showcase
The Great North Children’s Hospital is launching a festive innovation showcase bringing a unique opportunity for staff and patients at the children’s hospital to share thoughts, ideas and challenges to help us improve patient care.
At the heart of this initiative is a simple but powerful mission – to create a culture of innovation that continually enhances the quality of care that our patients experience.
In the NHS, every staff member and community member is in a unique position to see opportunity for improvement. This showcase provides a platform to bring these ideas to light, helping us all work towards a brighter, healthier future.
Patients, staff and the public at the children’s hospital are invited to submit your own innovation challenges – these are real-life challenges or areas of improvement observed through your experiences within the NHS.
We’d love to hear about anything that you feel could make GNCH experience better, from patient care pathways to digital tools and even ideas for improving our hospitals physical environment.
This approach is designed not only to engage but to empower. By giving everyone a voice, we foster an inclusive culture where every idea is valued, and the hospital continues to be a place of continuous improvement.
How to submit your challenge
The festive innovation challenge is taking place at the Great North Children’s Hospital innovation showcase on Thursday 5 December between 12pm and 2pm in the children’s hospital outpatients atrium.
The challenge is open to staff, patients, families and carers at the children’s hospital.
To submit an innovation challenge at our event please follow these steps:
- Take a bauble
- Write your challenge on the back
- Hang it on the festive tree
Alternatively please print the bauble image from this page. You can then write your idea on the back of the bauble and bring it to the festive tree.
Download festive challenge baubleAnother option is to take a photo of the bauble and email it during December into our team at [email protected].
The festive challenges will be collected by the innovation team and themed, so we can understand our most pressing challenges and work with you to solve these.
NHS partners
We hope our showcase will inspire other NHS organisations to adopt similar initiatives, learning from our experience of tapping into the wealth of ideas held by the wider community.
You’re very welcome to save the festive challenge bauble to use for your own innovation challenges. If you would like to find out more please email the team at [email protected].
