10: Internationalisation - The Importance to Innovative Healthcare

Professor Dean Fathers is the Chair of Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria, and he recently attended a trade mission to Romania organised by the RISE Institute.

In this episode, Dean leads a conversation with Dr Dawn Price and Jonathan Rowley, who were also part of the delegation, and they share their learnings - on how internationalisation - can improve and benefit innovative healthcare in our region.

Find out more about Professor Dean Fathers

RISE Institute:
RISE Institute is a dynamic non-profit association based in Transylvania, Romania, in the heart of Europe. RISE Institute aims at responding the challenges of the 21st century by fostering the sustainable growth of communities through skilling, up/re-skilling, research, innovation, and excellence in education, industry and in public sector.

Find out more at: riseins.org

NTH Solutions:

NTH Solutions is an NHS subsidiary. As well as delivering exemplary services to our own Trust, we provide solutions nationally to external organisations that improve efficiency, safety and reduce costs. From revolutionary infection control products to a full suite of facilities services, we are proud and privileged to extend our NHS ethos and standards into the wider UK community.

Find out more at: nthsolutions.co.uk 

Mistura Informatics Limited:
Mistura is a company of former NHS healthcare experts that provide digital systems in the UK. The systems give simplified medicines information and adherence resources to help patients, carer and healthcare staff, who want to take medicines safely and correctly by removing clinical language jargon, and informing what to be concerned about and when to take action that improves medicines health outcomes whilst reducing waste and NHS service demand.

A 2023 state of the nation document, (Kent Surrey & Sussex Academic Health Science Network and the National Innovation Centre for Ageing, 2023) identified £65m of NHS savings from 'preventable' medicines related hospital admissions that can be released from deploying systems, such those provided by Mistura.

The Choice and Medication Mental Health Website: 
Specialist Pharmacy Service Nationally Recommended Resource providing comprehensive yet simplified information on 25 mental health conditions and 175 medicines including simplified specialist information eg. medicines in pregnancy, comparison handy-charts with the main medicines leaflets translated to 20+ languages.
https://www.choiceandmedication.org/

The MaPPS system: 
Shortlisted for a Health Service Journal (HSJ) Improving Care with Technology Award, MaPPs creates Personalised Medicines Care Plans in different formats including language translations and Easy Read pictograms/short phrases that are particularly helpful for people with health literacy or cognitive challenges or for people with a learning difficulty. 
MaPPs also creates Reminder charts and Administration charts to help people at home to safely manage a daily schedule of multiple medicines and help staff know what to look for when helping others with their medicines taking eg. in hospital, residential or nursing care homes. https://www.mappsorg.com/

The What's my Drug? QR code portal:  Quick and easy access to simplified information about ANY medicines in different formats including text, Read Aloud, Easy Reads pictograms/short phrases and translation to empower