Sharing local innovation and improvement projects can help address health challenges in other areas, without the need to duplicate work across the health system. Learn how the Innovation Exchange can benefit you and your team.
Are you working on a local health innovation or improvement project that could benefit other services or clinical areas across the health system? The Innovation Exchange is the ideal platform to share your work with a wider audience and highlight the efforts of your team.
Having your project featured gives you the opportunity to:
- showcase the innovation and improvement work taking place in your district/service to the rest of NSW Health
- foster collaboration with other NSW Health services
- highlight individuals and teams within your workforce who are leading innovation.
You will have a web page on the Innovation Exchange to feature your project so other health professionals can see what you have achieved, and the lessons learnt along the way. It may help others to solve a similar challenge in their organisation or health service. Your project doesn't need to be completed to be published; the Innovation Exchange also accepts projects that are in the planning or implementation stages.
To submit your project, head over to the Share your project page on the Innovation Exchange website. You’ll find resources, including a Project Summary Template and Contribution Toolkit, that will help you organise your submission.
Discover new healthcare innovations
The Innovation Exchange has grown to feature more than 200 innovative healthcare projects from a variety of clinical areas across a range of care settings. For example, there has been great interest in a recent project from Hunter New England LHD. The Innovation in sepsis education: an escape room model project provides a timed, interactive game where teams of clinicians work together to solve puzzles with a focus on improving compliance with the Adult Sepsis Pathway.
Another recent project added to the website is a collaboration between Southern NSW LHD and Murrumbidgee LHD. The Southern and Murrumbidgee Oral Health Services project provides pathways for patients to access acute and specialist dental care through virtual appointments, making the service accessible for those in remote areas.
The platform also hosts projects completed by students who undertake the Graduate Certificate in Clinical Redesign (see our guest editorial), awarded by the ACI's Centre for Healthcare Redesign in partnership with the University of Tasmania.
Discover more by visiting the Innovation Exchange and searching by topic or care setting.