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The Acute Pain Team at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital has been selected by the Health Foundation, an independent health care charity, to be part of its £1.5m innovation programme.
The fourth round of the ‘Innovating for Improvement’ programme is supporting 20 health care projects in the UK with the aim of improving health care delivery and the way people manage their own health care by testing and developing innovative ideas and putting them into practice.
The initiative from the Acute Pain Team will provide psychological support for patients who are at risk of complicated pain management or psychological problems following surgery. Through preoperative psychological assessment and management, the aim is to decrease patients’ anxiety, manage their expectations of surgery and improve care quality and patient experience.
Over the course of the programme the team will develop its innovative idea and approach, put it into practice and gather evidence about how the innovation improves the quality of health care.
The team will be led by Dr Elaine O’Shea, Consultant Anaesthetist. Dr O’Shea said: “This is a fantastic opportunity to work with the Health Foundation to improve the quality of care given to surgical patients at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. The Acute Pain team are excited about commencing this innovative approach to patient care.”
Sarah Henderson, Associate Director from the Health Foundation, said: “We are very excited to be working with such a high-calibre of teams, who all have great innovative ideas. As an organisation we are keen to support innovation at the frontline across all sectors of health and care services, and I am pleased that we will be able to support these ambitious teams to develop and test their ideas over the next year.
“Our aim is to promote the effectiveness and impact of the teams’ innovations and show how they have succeeded in improving the quality of health care, with the intention of these being widely adopted across the UK.”
The programme will run for 15 months and each project will receive up to £75,000 of funding to support the implementation and evaluation of the project.
