On Saturday 17th March, the shortlisted entrants of the FastForward Innovation in Healthcare Competition met at the National Final in Manchester. They were joined by over 150 delegates, speakers, workshop leaders and judges to find out the winners of innovation prizes in the four categories of Education, Technology, Patient Care, and Unmet Clinical Need. The shortlisted teams came from across the UK to present their ideas to an audience of investors, students, university faculty, and
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StethoFILM: Reducing the Spread The Team Umair Khan: Medicine, University of Leicester Dr. Tahir Khan: Consultant Histopathologist Ammar Khan: Mathematics, University of Leeds The Problem Hospital acquired infections is a major problem in NHS which has required deep cleaning of the wards with excess expenditure. Whilst the doctors and the hospital staff take necessary care to clean their hands with alcohol gel in between patients, the most commonly used stethoscope of doctors escape attention. Having started
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The Move. Eat. Treat. Campaign Move. Eat. Treat. will function as a movement to focus attention on the issue of lifestyle advice and preventative medicine. The primary focus of the movement is to co-ordinate a petition and campaign to improve the provision of lifestyle advice teaching to all healthcare professionals at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Innovation The second focus of the organisation is to act as a social enterprise to deliver
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Team name: Preston Psych Soc Members: Rebecca Adams, Elizabeth Berry, Christina Kaewchaluay, Ergul Kaide, Holly Wolton Application name: CBT for me The problem: 1 in 4 people will suffer with a mental health disorder in their lifetime. Anxiety and depression are currently the most prevalent psychiatric conditions with around 1 in 10 people in the UK experiencing depressive episodes or debilitating symptoms of anxiety every year. NICE guidelines continue to recommend Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Read more →The Problem Its another busy day on the ward and the consultant strides into the first bay followed by a hoard of junior doctors and medical students. The first patient is a 94 year old gentleman who has been on the ward for a few weeks now and seems to be improving. The consultant briefly looks at him and asks loudly ’And how are we today sir?’. The patient, seeing the consultant looking at him, smiles
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Foundation Doctors and Medical Students have to carry many important items needed for daily ward work around their body, including stethoscope, tourniquet, ID, bleep, alcohol gel, pen, pen torch: the list is endless. The Problem Risk of infection is high as items are not contained and are likely to come into contact with patients and other healthcare professionals. For example, stethoscopes are currently carried around the neck in contact with bare skin and hang loosely
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(Fig1.0 Pyxus© by INOVUS) Current laparoscopic box trainers are prohibitively expensive for individual users and are currently only available for use at institutions and main hospitals. A lack of technical skill in surgery has been found to correlate with decreased patient safety (Barone and Lincer, 1991). Studies show the use of laparoscopic box trainers increase visuo-spatial skill and improve surgical outcomes (Kobayashi et al, 2010). Our plan is to provide a more affordable solution to
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Working through thousands of practice MCQs and EMQs is probably not everyone’s idea of fun, but it can be with our new mobile game app, Meduventure! Build and manage your own virtual hospital in this brand new idea for an application that uniquely blends elements of medical learning and gaming. Success in answering professionally designed MCQs and EMQ’s translates to a direct in game cash flow that enables players to hire new staff, buy
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Hospital wards work on different schedules, for example the variation between meal and quiet times, ward rounds and visiting hours. These factors can limit the time students have to increase their learning through patient interaction. Finding a patient to take a history from and examine can be a time consuming process, leading to more time being spent trying to find a patient, rather than learning from them. When large numbers of students are present on
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