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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals leads the way with medical innovations in international innovation bootcamp 

14 November 2023

Open innovation programme showcases medical innovations created by clinicians and frontline staff at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Three medical innovations created by clinicians and frontline staff at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals have been named the top three winners in an open innovation competition
  • The 2022-23 Healthcare Entrepreneur Exchange Programme provides an opportunity for clinical entrepreneurs to establish overseas collaborations and test their ideas in different healthcare settings
  • The innovations, which include a mobile phone gaming app training anaesthetists on how to optimise the airway during emergency caesarean sections and a brightly coloured barcode denture box for patients staying on busy hospital wards, could help patients and clinicians across the world.  

 

Three medical innovations created by clinicians and frontline staff at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been showcased as part of an international innovation competition. 

The top three winners from the Trust for the 2022-23 Healthcare Entrepreneur Exchange Programme were: 

  1. A mobile phone gaming app training anaesthetists on how to optimise the airway during emergency caesarean sections. The games present different scenarios to the players highlighting specific pitfalls, common errors and reinforce current UK difficult airway guidelines. Dr Fleur Roberts (Consultant Anaesthetist), Dr Hanna Harrison and Dr Jo Crofton Martin (Consultant Obstetric Anaesthetists) and Karl Brennan (Clinical Director, Anaesthesia and Operating Services) 
  2. ‘Denture Defenders’, a brightly coloured, barcode denture box to improve traceability of patient’s dentures while they stay on busy hospital wards (Claire Dewshi, Dental Core Trainee & Colleagues). 
  3. A project looking at reusable non-sterile personal protective equipment in hospital and healthcare settings across South Yorkshire to reduce carbon emissions (Luke Hunt, Specialist Registrar in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Colleagues)  

The competition provided teams with dedicated support and expertise to develop their idea into a product or service that creates value to the NHS and its patients. This culminated in reciprocal visits to their counterparts at Spain’s Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol and Vall d’Hebron Hospital of the Catalan Health Institute to explore each other’s innovation ecosystems and their idea in an intensive, real-world healthcare setting. 

To find out more about the projects please contact dipak.patel12@nhs.net in the first instance.

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