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8 November 2017
We are looking for applications from patients, clinicians and managers across England, with ideas for how patient flow and patient pathway management can be improved for the prize worth £20,000*. The prize is being sponsored and we will be announcing the sponsors shortly. In the context of Sustainability and transformation partnerships and ever improving access to … Continue reading “Our first innovation prize has launched”
21 June 2017
All NHS trusts will have their daily situation reports (SitRep) automatically collected by NHS Improvement from October 2017. SitReps are collected from acute trusts each weekday during winter, through manual data entry on areas such as A&E closures and diverts, cancelled operations or bed pressures. The automated data collection was announced 21 June, and NHS … Continue reading “Beautiful Information commissioned by NHSI to automate data collection”
14 June 2017
In-Form Solutions is a provider of effective management solutions to both community and business organisations and have decades of experience in supporting NHS organisations to improve their ways of working. In-Form will be a key reseller of Beautiful Information’s products and services and our relationship is managed by John Griffiths, Managing Director of In-Form. John … Continue reading “Enhanced partnership arrangements with In-Form Solutions”
9 June 2017
It was a busy end to the final quarter of the Financial Year 2016/2017, but one of the many highlights was our successful application to the Digital Outcomes and Specialists framework at the start of year. We are also pleased to announce that we have been accepted on the G-Cloud 9 framework for cloud-based services for public-sector organisations. … Continue reading “Framework success”
9 June 2017
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Background Innovation in healthcare is said to be notoriously difficult to achieve and sustain yet simultaneously the health service is under intense pressure to innovate given the ever-increasing demands placed upon it. Whilst many studies have looked at diffusion of innovation from an organisational perspective, few have sought to understand how individuals working … Continue reading “‘Innovators study’ – Exploring how innovation in patient safety and quality of care is achieved by individuals working within the NHS”
12 October 2015
“The higher number of patients waiting to be admitted into a hospital bed from A&E than in previous years points not only to patients being admitted when they are sicker, but also to pressure on beds in other parts of hospitals. This leads to disruption in the flow of patients though A&E. Delays in discharging … Continue reading “Are you winter ready?”
1 June 2015
This week sees the launch of the Beautiful Information manifesto which sets out what we hope to achieve over the coming years. Although it is aspirational, we know that we can make a great deal happen right now, just by using information more effectively and by making it actionable. We call this ‘data into action’ … Continue reading “The beautiful information manifesto launches on the 6th June”
15 July 2014
On behalf of the Kent Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science the beautiful information team recently team hosted the first of a series of events to bang the drum about the importance of the IM or Information Management function within the NHS – www.kssahsn.net/index.php/news/making-information-beautiful. For too long IM function has been lumped in together with the … Continue reading “Making Information Beautiful event”
22 November 2013
EKBI’s Marc Farr has been named in the HSJ Top 50 Innovators in Health 2013. It said: “He is the founder of Beautiful Information at East Kent, which among other things tracks A&E activity levels. The project won the data/information management category at the 2013 National Patient Safety Awards. Made honorary professor in geomatic and civil engineering at UCL in 2007, his academic … Continue reading “Marc Farr named in HSJ’s Top 50 Innovators”