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Annual Review 2018-19

  • Highlights
  • Leaders' views
  • Our Health Integration Teams (HITs)
  • Highlights
    • Our highlights in 2018-19
    • Timeline
    • HIT research funding
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Our 2018-19 highlights

Here are just some of the highlights our unique partnership and our Health Integration Teams (HITs) have achieved over the last year.

Enabling new research funding

  • £2.9m total funding for HIT-led research
  • £4.5m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) follow on funding for SPHERE (Sensor Platform for Healthcare in a Residential Environment)
  • £6m EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Health and Care, to train the next generation of researchers in using digital technologies
  • £6.6m Medical Research Council UK Prevention Research Partnership to tackle the root causes of unhealthy planning, economics and decision-making

System change and pathway redesign

  • £656,521 invested in service changes involving our HITs
  • 4 HITs – Stroke, Integrated Pain Management, Avoiding Hospital Admissions and Bristol Bones and Joints – are working closely with local Sustainability and Transformation Partnership Healthier Together on pathway redesign

Embedding patient and public involvement (PPI)

Attendees at the introduction to digital health training

  • More than 30 patient and public contributors on HIT leadership teams
  • Training 11 people to empower them to participate in digital health conversations
  • 5 patient and service user-led events attended by more than 300 people

Communicating and engaging

The audience at the AI in Health and Care event

  • 340 heard from Ben Goldacre, Natalie Banner and Deborah El- Sayed at AI in Health and Care: How do we get it right?
  • Contributed to more than 10 other events, including the Bristol and Bath Health and Care Awards, the launch of materials to promote safer drug injecting practices, Pedestrian Crossings: the good, the bad and the rationale, the 2018 HIT conference
  • 10.6k followers on Twitter

Enabling city-wide work

  • Work on better use of data, supporting academic connections with Healthier Together in their digital plans including hosting an ‘information engine’ workshop
  • Contributing to 2 sessions at the Bristol Forum, including a Partnerology session
  • Contributing to the successful UK Prevention Research Partnership MRC funding bid

Influencing beyond our city

  • Advising East Anglia region on setting up their own health partnership
  • Sexual Health Improvement Programme (SHIP HIT) submit written evidence to Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into sexual health and anti-microbial resistance
  • Movement Disorders HIT Directors star in BBC 2 documentary
  • Healthy Urban Environments (SHINE HIT) responds to West of England joint transport plan
  • Improving Care in Self-Harm HIT presents to Parliamentary self-harm and suicide prevention group, and contributes to the National Suicide Prevention Strategy
  • Homepage
    • Highlights
      • Our highlights in 2018-19
      • Timeline
      • HIT research funding
  • Highlights
    • Our highlights in 2018-19
    • Timeline
    • HIT research funding
  • Homepage

Our 2018-19 highlights

Here are just some of the highlights our unique partnership and our Health Integration Teams (HITs) have achieved over the last year.

Enabling new research funding

  • £2.9m total funding for HIT-led research
  • £4.5m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) follow on funding for SPHERE (Sensor Platform for Healthcare in a Residential Environment)
  • £6m EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Health and Care, to train the next generation of researchers in using digital technologies
  • £6.6m Medical Research Council UK Prevention Research Partnership to tackle the root causes of unhealthy planning, economics and decision-making

System change and pathway redesign

  • £656,521 invested in service changes involving our HITs
  • 4 HITs – Stroke, Integrated Pain Management, Avoiding Hospital Admissions and Bristol Bones and Joints – are working closely with local Sustainability and Transformation Partnership Healthier Together on pathway redesign

Embedding patient and public involvement (PPI)

Attendees at the introduction to digital health training

  • More than 30 patient and public contributors on HIT leadership teams
  • Training 11 people to empower them to participate in digital health conversations
  • 5 patient and service user-led events attended by more than 300 people

Communicating and engaging

The audience at the AI in Health and Care event

  • 340 heard from Ben Goldacre, Natalie Banner and Deborah El- Sayed at AI in Health and Care: How do we get it right?
  • Contributed to more than 10 other events, including the Bristol and Bath Health and Care Awards, the launch of materials to promote safer drug injecting practices, Pedestrian Crossings: the good, the bad and the rationale, the 2018 HIT conference
  • 10.6k followers on Twitter

Enabling city-wide work

  • Work on better use of data, supporting academic connections with Healthier Together in their digital plans including hosting an ‘information engine’ workshop
  • Contributing to 2 sessions at the Bristol Forum, including a Partnerology session
  • Contributing to the successful UK Prevention Research Partnership MRC funding bid

Influencing beyond our city

  • Advising East Anglia region on setting up their own health partnership
  • Sexual Health Improvement Programme (SHIP HIT) submit written evidence to Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into sexual health and anti-microbial resistance
  • Movement Disorders HIT Directors star in BBC 2 documentary
  • Healthy Urban Environments (SHINE HIT) responds to West of England joint transport plan
  • Improving Care in Self-Harm HIT presents to Parliamentary self-harm and suicide prevention group, and contributes to the National Suicide Prevention Strategy

Our partners

Bristol City Council
North Somerset Council
South Gloucestershire Council
University of Bristol
University of the West of England
Sirona
NHS
Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group
NHS Blood and Transplant
North Bristol NHS Trust
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
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