East Midlands AHSN: Impact report 2019-20

Summary

The role of the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) is to drive the uptake of innovation and technology and develop safer systems of care nationally and in a way that is specific and useful to regional partners.

This Impact Report looks back over the last year (April 2019 until the end of March 2020) and some of the impacts that the East Midlands AHSN programmes have had.

Content

Here are just some of East Midlands AHSN programmes:

• ESCAPE – pain 374 people received life-changing rehabilitation helping them to live with osteoarthritis.
• Focus ADHD – East Midlands ADHD programme to improve ADHD diagnosis for children and young people selected for national adoption and spread.
• ChatHealth – Secure health messaging service reaches 100% coverage for young people in the East Midlands. 
• Digital outpatient appointment follow up – Trust’s Oncology clinical specialty reduced unnecessary follow up appointments by 97% in one pathway using digital approach.
• Transfers of Care Around Medicines – Over 12,000 at-risk patients received additional support with their medications when leaving hospital.
• Patient safety work with care homes – Commitment by East Midlands care homes to their residents’ safety applauded by national health and care system leaders.
• Atrial Fibrillation – 220 strokes avoided and 73 lives saved across East Midlands.