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9 December 2017
The team met in Stratford earlier this November, to discuss future plans for Beautiful Information and take a look at how current projects have been going. Seeing as we’re digital, it’s always very beneficial and refreshing to catch up with everyone face-to-face! One of the hot topics in conversation, was our Innovation Prize Giveaway, where … Continue reading “Team catch up”
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”
9 June 2017
This year’s NHS Confederation annual conference and exhibition takes place at the ACC in Liverpool from Wednesday 14 – Thursday 15 June 2017. If you are attending, please do take the time to visit us at stand A46 in the main arena to find out more about what we do, and how we can help … Continue reading “Come and see us at this year’s NHS Confederation annual conference and exhibition”
22 November 2016
The unnecessary delay in discharging older patients (those aged 65 and over) from hospital continues to be a known and long-standing issue. With the number of older people in England rapidly increasing – by 20% between 2004 and 2014, and with a projected increase of 20% over the decade to 2024 – it is now … Continue reading “Reducing patient time spent in hospital becomes more critical than ever”
10 August 2016
Sometimes people move between the NHS and the private sector [or academia] and vice versa. For those who wish to do it, it is often described as throwing an old mattress over barbed wire fencing to engineer a dramatic escape. Maybe we should just take the fencing down. Kevin Roberts, Chairman of Saatchi and Saatchi, … Continue reading “Tearing down the barbed wire fence”
12 July 2016
This week we made it on the list of 50 New Radicals 2016. New Radicals is a search led by Nesta, the UK’s innovation foundation, and The Observer to find the top people, projects and organisations offering innovative ways to tackle the challenges facing society today. The list compiled from hundreds of entries and nominations, narrowed … Continue reading “New Radicals 2016 accolade putting data into action”