South Yorkshire Innovation Showcase 2024
Celebrating innovative practice in South Yorkshire
The South Yorkshire Innovation Showcase 2024 is a new initiative that aims to recognise and celebrate the strength of our local health and care system by showcasing examples of good practice and sharing great ideas that could be scaled up to benefit our communities. By doing this, we hope to grow the profile of innovation and research already happening across the region.
In collaboration with the South Yorkshire Innovation Hub - a partnership between us and Health Innovation Yorkshire & Humber - we are asking you and your team to share your innovative practice or encourage your colleagues to share their great work so that it can be celebrated, and supported to sustain and scale by senior sponsors from across the ICS. All you need to do is complete this brief Innovative Practice Form that should take about 10 minutes.
There are several important benefits to participating in the South Yorkshire Innovation Showcase by sharing details about your innovative approach including:
- Recognition for you and your colleagues for excellent practice being delivered in the region.
- Greater awareness and understanding of your work across South Yorkshire, thanks to the opportunity to showcase your project/initiative at the South Yorkshire Innovation Showcase celebration event later in the year, with expected attendance from decision-makers and health and care leaders.
- An opportunity to network and strengthen relationships with key organisations in the region including health and care providers, academic institutions and industry partners. This may in turn lead to new opportunities for funding or professional development.
- Contributing to create a culture of learning and innovation across our health and care system. By sharing examples of good practice you are playing an active role in helping to drive improvement in population health outcomes across South Yorkshire.
- The chance to learn from peers conducting similar work and understand where further improvements could be made to service provision.
We know it can be challenging to find the time to share the work you and your team are doing. That’s why we have tried to make the process as straightforward as possible, with a simple form and plenty of time to complete it. We want to hear about all the great work you are doing, so please let us know how we can support you in sharing your ideas. Your contributions are important to us, and we are here to help.
Who can participate
We are particularly interested to hear about great initiatives that support the achievement of one of the four Bold Ambitions in the South Yorkshire Integrated Care Partnership strategy:
1. Focus on development in early years so that every child in South Yorkshire is school ready.
2. Act differently together to strengthen and accelerate our focus on prevention and early identification.
3. Work together to increase economic participation and support a fair, inclusive and sustainable economy.
4. Collaborate to value and support our entire workforce across health, care, VCSE, carers and volunteers. Developing a diverse workforce that reflects our communities.
We know that there are many high impact, innovative activities that are happening across South Yorkshire that might not align to one of the four Bold Ambitions. If you have an innovative project that you think should be celebrated and scaled up so that more people benefit, we are keen to hear about it through our open category.
Organisations and individuals across health and care are encouraged to contribute to the South Yorkshire Innovation Showcase. This includes, but is not limited to primary care organisations, acute trusts, mental health and community trusts, academia, the VCSE sector, local authorities, combined authorities, public service providers (e.g. schools, police, fire and rescue) and other organisations which contribute to the wider determinants of health. These projects might also include industry partnerships.
Initiatives which are delivered in partnership across multiple organisations are also encouraged. In this instance, please complete the Innovative practice form on behalf of a designated lead partner, and make reference to the wider group of partners.
If you are involved in more than one initiative which aligns to separate Bold Ambitions, we would love to hear about them – please fill out a form for each project.
If you have any queries about your eligibility to apply, please contact Andrew Woodcock a.woodcock2@nhs.net
For full details of the South Yorkshire Innovation Showcase please download the programme pack.
Share your innovation project
To share your initiative, please complete and return the Innovative Practice Form by midnight on 19 August 2024 to sy.innovation@yhahsn.com
For full details of the South Yorkshire Innovation Showcase please download the programme pack
Have a colleague or team member who you feel is delivering excellent, innovative work in South Yorkshire? Please share this Programme Pack with them and let others know about this opportunity.
If you have any queries about the process, please contact Andrew Woodcock a.woodcock2@nhs.net
