Enabling spread and adoption of innovation and improvement in our complex and inter-dependent health and care systems

Summary: This workshop will share the evolution of and learning from the Bevan Commission Academy (Exemplars, Fellows and Advocates) with particular reference to the Bevan Exemplar programme and its delivery model.  It will use 3 Exemplar case studies to demonstrate the transition from idea to innovation and adopt and spread and the key components that have led to their successful implementation and sustainability.  Workshop participants will work in small groups to generate new ideas for transforming their health and care system to create improved outcomes for people and identify the issues that will need to be addressed from policy levers, ecosystem infrastructure, people and culture and organisational perspectives.

Background: The sustainability of our health and care services requires a radical approach which challenges the status quo, identifies all the many moving parts in the complex adaptive system and has a solid framework to anchor the transformation such as the Prudent Health and Care Principles as is the case in Wales. 

Aims and Objectives: The increasing need for integrated, values-driven health and care systems requires leaders that have the capability and confidence to drive organisational and system-wide transformations.  This workshop’s overall aim and objectives is to provide delegates with insights into an integrated approach to identifying and supporting health and care transformational leaders and stimulate discussions on how the Bevan Academy model could be adapted and adopted for use in other regions and organisations.

Target Audience: This workshop is open to all delegates and we would like to hear from a wide range of health and care stakeholders including people with lived experience, health and care team members, managers, decision makers, researchers and policy makers.

Facilitators: Tom Howson, Innovation Lead, Bevan Commission, Swansea University, Wales (Presenter and Small Group Facilitator)

Helen Howson, Director, Bevan Commission, Swansea University, Wales (Small Group Facilitator)

Leo Lewis, International Lead, Bevan Commission and IFIC Senior Associate (Small Group facilitator)

Format:

•Energiser activity (5 minutes)

•Background to the Bevan Commission and Academy (5 minutes)

•Evolution and model of the Bevan Exemplar Programme (10 minutes)

•Exemplar Case Studies to highlight what has worked well and what has not worked so well and the challenge of innovation adoption (15 minutes)

•Small Group Work outline (5 minutes):

•Brainstorm innovative approaches and tools to support adoption and spread following Sandbox creative thinking model (20 minutes)

•How can these approaches and tools be utilised to facilitate the health and care workforce, organisations, managers and decision makers, and policy makers work together to improve, integrate and innovate? (20 minutes)

•Group feedback and discussion and close (10 minutes)

Key Learnings: Workshop participants will gain insights into what could work, for who and in what situations and why based on evidence from health and care innovation in Wales.