What is innovation?

In this video, Lucy Hawkins (Senior Consultant) describes our understanding of the term ‘innovation’ and the conditions that allow it to flourish.

PHM Academy - Core Team Event 2nd July 2019 

We held our first Core Team event on the 2nd July 2019 which was a huge success.

In March 2019, NHS England is expected to report the outcome of its review of constitutional waiting times targets. This report reviews the factors that have led to the decline in performance against one of these targets - the 4-hour target for Accident and Emergency Departments. The analysis uncovers new insights and has the potential to reshape received wisdom about the performance of A&E departments, carrying important implications for healthcare policy and system leadership.

High level findings from a series of evidence reviews on new care models.

Building the Right Support is a national plan to provide better support to people with a learning disability or autism. It says what services and supports are needed to help people whose behaviour challenges services or who have mental health problems.

Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycles, developed by Walter Shewhart and Edward Deming, are a common model used for testing small scale changes. Using these cycles enables you to test whether the proposed change will succeed, before rolling out full implementation. 

This document provides more detail on our initial offer to clients – including our series of training workshops, our innovation & evaluation toolkit and advisory support.

The fishbone tool, developed by Kaoru Ishikawa, is a cause and effect analysis that helps you to understand a range of the causes to a problem, not just the obvious ones. Use this tool to determine why a particular problem is occurring.

In this interactive PDF, we set out our thinking on innovation and evaluation, as well as our overall offer of support at individual, organisation and system level for each stage of the innovation process.

In this document, we set out the core principles underlying high quality evaluation. We also describe some of the methods that can be used, highlighting potential pros and cons and our advice on when they should be used in the innovation process.