Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria has partnered with NHS England’s Digital First Primary Care Team to deliver Digital Pioneers – a programme that aims to facilitate collaboration, exchange ideas and support the scale and spread of digital health innovations within primary care. In this episode, Emma Richardson, Programme Manager for our Digital Transformation team, chats to Andre Yeung, a Pharmacist and Clinical Lead for North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB), about how we have supported his innovation for the rollout of digital pharmacy screens and the digitisa ..read more

Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria’s Medicines Optimisation programme launched in 2013, and aims to ensure patients get the best from their medicines to improve outcomes. As part of this work, the Medicines Safety Improvement Programme (MedSIP) aims to reduce inappropriate high-dose opiate prescriptions for non-cancer pain, and supports better management of chronic pain across the North East and North Cumbria region. In this episode, Dr Graham Syers, a GP and Clinical Lead for North East and North Cumbria’s Integrated Care Board, hosts a candid discussion with practitioners from ..read more

In this podcast, Peter Lillie, Sustainability Innovation Manager for Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria, and Dr Matthew Sawyer, a North East GP and Director of SEE Sustainability, explore the NHS commitment to reach Net Zero. They discuss some of the positive things that can be done to affect climate change, alongside some of the drivers for change that we are seeing both regionally and nationally. The theme for this episode is the small things that make a big impact,  introducing how can we all play a part in making small actions that can make a positive change to our health ..read more

The Academic Health Science Network North East North Cumbria delivers a national programme of work looking at cholesterol and lipid optimisation. Recently, a number of new non-statin treatments that have been made available on the lipid pathway, which will help patients to reduce their cholesterol, and therefore reduce heart attacks and strokes. Inclisiran is one of these new therapies, but what's really important is the way it has been delivered, taking a population health management approach, meaning that patients can access treatment much more quickly as it is rolled out through primary c ..read more

Dr Joe Chidanyika is Programme Manager for the National Accelerated Access Collaborative and AHSN’s Lipid and FH Programme. In this episode, Joe talks to our Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Programme Lead, Kate Mackay, about his passion for CVD, particularly when it comes to improving health inequalities. He also highlights how his other passion for football helps him encourage better health and wellbeing through grassroot coaching. Find out how the Academic Health Science Network North East North Cumbria (AHSN NENC is delivering the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention programme, part of wh ..read more

Karen Hooper, Midwifery Lead for the National Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme (MatNeoSIP), hosts a conversation about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic during pregnancy. This episode highlights World Patient Safety Day - the theme for 2021 is 'safe maternal and newborn care'. Contributors for this episode: Carla Anderson - Public Health Midwife, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Emma Jackson - Pregnant Mum-to-be Emma McCone - Matron, Vaccination Programme, Nightingale Hospital, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Jo Turner - Midwife / Transformation and ..read more

In this episode - Patient Safety Collaborative Programme Lead, Tony Roberts talks to the team behind Covid Oximetry @home for the Tees Valley CCG - one of three national pilot sites for the NHS, mobilised for rapid adoption of an innovative programme at the height of the COVID pandemic in 2020. The Tees Valley Covid Oximetry @home project has won the Primary Care Initiative of the Year category for the HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2021. Find out more information on Covid Oximetry @home here ..read more

The first in a series of podcasts with our Associate Director, Jody Nichols. In this episode, Jody discusses the Innovation Pathway and the development of OMNIA and the evaluation ecosystem with fellow Associate Director, Rachel Morris. Read Jody's blog here ..read more