Press release announcing the Mediplex Award for Myoutcomes

1. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Innovation in the NHS was Celebrated at the Eleventh
Medipex NHS Innovation Awards and Showcase
Innovative NHS staff and their collaborators from the region’s universities, charities and SMEs have
been celebrated at the eleventh annual Medipex Innovation Awards and Showcase. It was clear from
this year’s entries that the use of technology to improve the efficiency of services is high on the agenda
for the NHS, as demonstrated in the description of the winners below.
Innovators from around the region gathered at Oulton Hall near Leeds on 8th
October 2015 for a
networking event and awards ceremony where seven teams were crowned winners across five
categories: Digital Health, GP & Primary Care, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Medical Devices &
Diagnostics and Secondary Care. The awards provide a platform to showcase pioneering new ideas
and technologies developed by, or with, NHS staff to improve patient care and make services more
efficient.
The awards are run by Medipex Ltd., the innovation hub for NHS organisations in Yorkshire and the
Humber and the East Midlands. Seventy high quality entries were received this year from which
fourteen teams were selected to attend the awards ceremony as finalists. Seven of these teams were
crowned winners, receiving their awards from TV presenter and NHS paediatrician Dr Ranj Singh.
The winners of the Medipex NHS Innovation Awards and Showcase 2015 were:
Digital Health category (joint winners):
Thomas Gray from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust won his award for Healthcare Supervision
Logbook, a mobile phone app designed to collect continuous
feedback from doctors-in-training and the consultants
responsible for supervising them. This platform allows for a
much wider, real-time view of the quality of both the
training that is being delivered, and of the students
themselves, to identify and target problem areas. The
product is being piloted in the region and is expected to
contribute to better patient care through improvement of
medical education.
Simon Judge from Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
was chosen as joint winner in this category for his work on
the ITU Communication Toolbox, an app that allows patients
on mechanical ventilation to efficiently communicate
through a tablet computer device. The design of this
communication aid has been evidence-based having drawn
on a systematic literature review, qualitative data from
interviews with patients and carers, and ‘embedded’ design
work within an Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU). The resulting
device is anticipated to improve communication, enhancing
both the emotional state of the patient and the care they
receive.

2. Runner up:
Graham Smith from Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust: Summary Care Record
Access Validation Tool (SCV)
GP and Primary Care category:
Caroline Senior from Leeds Community Healthcare NHS
Trust won the award for her development of a pilot
scheme to deliver intravenous diuretics to heart failure
patients in their own homes, a procedure that ordinarily
requires a patient being admitted to hospital for 13 days.
Significant patient benefit was demonstrated, with 100%
of patients involved in the pilot reporting that they
preferred the community-based care, as well as substantial
cost savings to the NHS.
Runners up:
Elaine Wyllie from NHS Scarborough & Ryedale CCG: Safeguarding Children App
Kristina Fletcher from NAViGO Health & Social Care CIC: Improving Access to Psychological
Therapies (IAPT) for People with Long Term Physical Health Conditions
Mental Health and Wellbeing category (joint winners):
Dianne Tetley from Lincolnshire Partnership NHS
Foundation Trust was selected as joint winner for her work
on MyOutcomes® UK, a secure, web-based feedback and
data management system that supports the practical
application of an Outcomes Orientated Approach to the
delivery of Mental Health Services (OO-AMHS). Patients
input feedback before and after sessions with practitioners
and the software displays a graphical interpretation of this
feedback to check patient functioning and the quality of the
therapeutic alliance.
Lynne Barker from Sheffield Hallam University was chosen
as joint winner in this category for her work on a digital
version of The Cooking Task. Traumatic brain injuries can
lead to impairment in cognitive functions such as multi-
tasking, planning, sequencing and prospective memory.
Cooking requires the use of many of these skills and can
provide a sensitive and reliable measure of executive
function ability in a ‘real-world’ context. The digital Cooking
Task programme has now been piloted and is anticipated to
reduce time and costs associated with assessment of
cognitive function.
Runner up:
Lydia Burfield from Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust: Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Service Training DVDs for Professionals: The Voice & Experiences of Young People

3. Medical Devices and Diagnostics category:
Stephen Smith from University of York has developed
the LID-Monitor, commercialised through spin-out
company ClearSky Medical Diagnostics, which can
detect involuntary movements that are associated with
Parkinson’s disease and that can also be caused by the
medication used to treat it. The device allows home
monitoring of patients over a 24 hour period and
bespoke software produces an easy to interpret graph
that can be presented to clinicians in order to inform
any changes in medication that may benefit the patient.
Runners up:
Diana Anderson from University of Bradford: Simple blood test to detect individuals with cancer
Jeremy Prydal from University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: Early detection of lung cancer using
high resolution autofluorescence spectrometry
Secondary Care category:
Mike Pinkerton from Doncaster and Bassetlaw
Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust came first in this
category for establishing an in-house Orthotic
Manufacturing Unit. Historically all patient orthoses
were purchased from external companies but product
and administration costs were significant and treatment
for patients was delayed, which impacted on
performance targets. The in-house facility has radically
changed how orthotic services are delivered across the
Trust and has substantially reduced orthotic spend. The
unit also provides same day repair facilities for patients,
reducing the number of clinical appointments required
and the number of items supplied to each patient,
whilst allowing them to remain as independent and
mobile as possible.
Runner up:
James Burton from University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust: Overnight haemodialysis to improve
patient experience and clinical outcomes

4. Full details of the finalists in each category can be found on the Medipex website:
www.medipex.co.uk
Ends
Further information from:
Agnes Crutchard, Medipex:
Tel 0113 397 0963, email agnes.crutchard@medipex.co.uk
Notes for editors
ABOUT MEDIPEX
Medipex is the Innovation Hub covering the Yorkshire and Humber and East Midlands regions. It was
set up in 2002 to identify truly innovative ideas conceived by NHS staff and, where possible, to
protect any intellectual property associated with those ideas and facilitate their commercial
exploitation. Since 2004, Medipex has evaluated around 1,500 ideas put forward by NHS staff and
manages a pipeline of successful innovations. As well as working with NHS staff, Medipex also works
with academia and a wide range of medical technology companies to help them link with NHS staff
to facilitate development of medical technology products.
The Medipex NHS Innovation Awards 2015 were sponsored by Bartlett insurance brokers, Synergix
Health, Urquhart-Dykes and Lord LLP, Ward Haddaway law firm and the Yorkshire and Humber
Academic Health Science Network.