NHS Innovations South West

Resounding success for NISW Innovation Day

NHS Innovations South West recently held an innovation day at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The ‘open forum’ was a resounding success with a constant flow of staff throughout the day. There was considerable interest shown in the innovation agenda and particularly the process of taking an idea and developing it into a real solution as well as all the prototypes and case studies that were on display.

It quickly became clear that the Trust has many innovative staff that had a wide range of questions and enquiries. In fact one of the key results of the day was the large number of ideas that were submitted to NISW to evaluate. These projects are now in the process of being assessed by Chris Sawyer, Business Development Manager for NISW, many of which we believe will develop into full projects and will become commercial solutions available to the whole NHS.
 
Dr Christopher Miller, Dorset County Hospital R&D Manager, was very pleased with the event. He went on to say “We were delighted with the response to this event and it has provided a great way of raising the profile of Innovation at our Trust. It was particularly rewarding to see such a wide range of staff showing an interest in innovation. We managed to get the message across that this area of work is for all staff in the NHS and not just those working in technical areas”

NISW look forward to holding more innovation days in the coming months.

If your NHS Trust is interested in hosting an event, or you would like to find out more about NISW Innovations Days then contact us on 01722 326006 or e-mail us at info@nisw.co.uk