West Midlands Academic Health Science Network

Mental Health Clinical Priority EventOctober 10th, 2013

Peter Lewis

Medical Director, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust

Interim Board Member WM AHSN

Background

• Innovation, Health & Wealth – published December 11 set out plans for spreading innovation through the NHS

• Innovation is vital in order to transform healthcare

• Aim to rapidly spread change to improve quality, safety and productivity

Role and purpose of AHSNs

• Improve the identification, adoption, spread, speed of innovation and good practice in the NHS

• Provide the opportunity to align education and training, clinical research, informatics, innovation and healthcare delivery

• Enable the NHS and academia to work collaboratively with industry

• Overall purpose to improve patient outcomes and create wealth

• Succeed where others have not

West Midlands

• 5.6m diverse population• The advantages of the West Midlands’ diverse population base

to support clinical trials, excellent basic science, comprehensive clinical services and a vibrant manufacturing and digital technology sector have already delivered significant advances in health care delivery

• Inequality in health outcomes and healthcare delivery

• Academic & clinical excellence, regional networks• Industrial heritage that will drive wealth creation

Organisations involved in AHSN development to date

• University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust• University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust• University of Birmingham• Keele University• Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust• University Hospital North Staffordshire NHS Foundation

Trust• University of Warwick• Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust• West Midlands South CLRN • Medilink West Midlands

Organisation & governance

MEMBERS

ownership and overall responsibility

for the AHSN

STAKEHOLDERS & PARTNERS

sector cohesion via stakeholder

reference groups

BOARD

leadership, strategy &

assurance Independent Chair

EXECUTIVE

responsibility for the execution and

delivery of the strategy

AHSN

• The West Midlands-AHSN (WM-AHSN) represents a novel, region-wide partnership between NHS, social care, academia and industry, with the principal objective of improving the health of the West Midlands population through efficient and effective translation of research and innovation into practice.

WM AHSN aims

• To transform the identification, adoption spread and spread of innovation and good practice

• To align healthcare delivery, research, education and training

• To drive wealth creation through the development of a regional industry portal enabling access to the NHS, driving adoption and publishing evaluation

• To improve outcomes - driven through use of digital platforms

Strategy & vision – 6 enabling themes• Develop a novel and comprehensive digital framework

– builds on existing Regional strengths (UHBfT, UoW)– outcome driven

• Establish regional clinical trials platforms - support for acceleration, reducing bureaucracy, improving efficiency and cost effectiveness,

alignment with CLRNs • To promote and accelerate innovation, evaluation and adoption • To drive and develop patient-centric integrated care pathways -

bridging primary, secondary & social care• Focus on education & training - delivering a fit for purpose

workforce in partnership with LETB• To create wealth - proactive support for regional medical technology

industry engagement

Initial focus on 3 clinical priorities

• Mental health– In the young – Dementia

• Chronic disease – Diabetes & obesity– Musculoskeletal disease

• Drug safety– From hospital to primary care– Abolishing prescribing errors across the region

Mental Health

• Ensure that procedures are developed to identify innovations in best practise, emerging ideas with potential to advance mental health care, especially in the management of those patients with long term conditions;

• Develop structures, resources and capabilities to effectively and expeditiously rollout tested and prioritised mental health interventions.

Specific Actions

• Stakeholders meeting to create enthusiasm and momentum for the work and identify areas of innovative practise for inclusion in work plan

• Establish Mental Health Innovations Unit• Establish protocols and working arrangements with

themes to ensure that meaningful collaboration• In the first year, use RAID and Youthspace as pilot

projects for the testing of the AHSN methodology and the development and dissemination of innovative mental health interventions

Current position

• Designated without condition on 13th May 2013 (7 of the 15 had conditions)

• WM AHSN key stakeholder meeting held on 24th July 2013

• Mental health stakeholder meeting held on October 10th 2013

http://www.wmahsn.org

Our hope 5 years on…

• To have an integrated & innovative health network• To be the first UK regional digital healthcare economy • To be the known place for industry for NHS access,

evaluation and adoption• To be significantly on the road to reversing health

inequality and to have significantly improved outcomes for the region