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)
- 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
- 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
