Making room for innovation: a practical model for de-implementing previous ways of working

Supporting the adoption and sustainability of innovation at scale is essential for improving health and care systems to implement innovation to create a healthier population. Yet, successful innovation often depends on retiring old practices, a process known as de-implementation. Health Innovation Wessex has developed a new, evidence-based model to support de-implementation and will share their insight in this webinar. 

You’ll explore:

• Why de-implementation matters for innovation success.
• Why a managed approach to the complex transformational activities of stopping, replacing, or restricting low value care is legitimate work and should be enacted to de-risk the process, save time and money, and make room for new ways of working to thrive.
• The Heath Innovation Wessex De-Implementation Model: a practical framework for managing change and how the model makes room for new innovation.
• Real-world case studies
• Insights with others and discuss their experience of de-implementing services and whether a managed process would de-risk the process, and/​or saved time and money during transformation activities. 

Expect a mix of expert presentations, breakout discussions, and actionable takeaways.

• Learn a structured approach to safely and effectively retire outdated practices.
• Gain insights on strategies to de-risk transformation.
• Take away practical tools to save time, reduce costs, and enable innovation to flourish.

This event is designed for anyone leading or supporting the introduction of innovation in health care, including:

• Health system leaders
• Service improvement managers
• Clinical directors
• Policy and transformation leads

Philippa Darnton, Director of Insight, Health Innovation Wessex

Phillipa has over 30 years’ experience in the NHS and academia. From her early career as an Allied Health Professional (SLT), she has taken her passions for improving patient care and innovation into roles in strategic planning, operational, service improvement and commissioning. She joined Health Innovation Wessex in 2015 to lead programmes in evaluation, spread and adoption, pivoting support during the pandemic to rapidly capture learning from front line clinicians and managers through an innovative Rapid Insight approach. Having led a team to deliver over 100 independent evaluations of innovations in health care including digital solutions, her work has contributed critical insights to enable decisions about what innovation benefits patients and our health and care systems and how to implement it. Her large-scale improvement work has included programmes in stroke care, cardiac services and neuro-rehabilitation. 

Andrew Sibley,  Evaluation Programme Manager (Mixed Methods), Health Innovation Wessex

Andrew joined Health Innovation Wessex in 2018 and before this worked in academia as a mixed methods Senior Research Fellow, holding roles at King’s College London and the University of Southampton. He has also worked in a research capacity directly for NHS and local authority organisations. Andrew brings a wide range of expertise in using advanced quantitative and qualitative methods to support real-world evaluations of innovation. His research interests include the application of implementation theories/​models/​frameworks to support innovation adoption, evaluation of new care models and new roles to support long-term conditions, and medicines management. What drives his work is a deep commitment to improving patient care and promoting proven innovation to improve health services. Andrew is passionate about bridging the gap between research and evaluation approaches to benefit the real-world assessment of innovation. 

Emma Williams, Associate Director for Strategic Partnerships, Health Innovation Wessex

Emma leads the development of Health Innovation Wessex’s customer offer and to seek new and exciting partnerships across health, social care, academia, voluntary, community and social enterprises (VCSE) and industry. She also leads on the development of business growth strategy and business planning. Emma has worked for almost 30 years within management and frontline roles across health, social care, and the voluntary and community sector. She has wide experience in leading large scale organisational change, service redesign, stakeholder engagement and building effective network relationships. 

Patrick Arnold, Innovation Adoption Programme Manager, Health Innovation Wessex

Patrick  joined Health Innovation Wessex from a medical device sterilisation company working across the public and private healthcare sectors, and prides himself on not taking a ​‘one size fits all’ mindset but instead finding a collaborative approach to explore the best possible solution for the partner that he is collaborating with. In addition to his previous role Patrick has a wealth of experience in private healthcare with a focus on sales, business development and commercial activities. He has led and delivered large scale implementation projects with major acute NHS trusts which led to him undertaking an MSc in Health Management and a dissertation that focused on the spread and adoption of the Long-Term Conditions (LTC) Framework. Patrick is passionate about finding ways to enhance the great work already being undertaken in primary care in Wessex and nationally to improve healthcare practices for clinicians, non-clinicians and patients. 

The session will be facilitated by the Q Community team.