NUH Featured Innovation
H@N: Liberation through technology means more time for direct clinical activity
NUH implemented a novel technological solution to address communication issues outside usual working hours in a highly successful project led by Dominick Shaw and Andrew Fearn. The wireless system has won an innovation award from Cisco. The data from the programme is being used by John Blakey to quantify and compare clinical activity, providing rapid and relevant information to improve services and training. Continue reading
Hand Splints: Versatile innovation that proves persistence can pay off
Neville Wright developed an innovative hand splint as a result of his experience treating patients with hand contractures within nursing homes. The hand splint deals with infection control issues of thermoplastic resting splints within nursing homes, whilst maintaining or serially extending hand contractures and preventing associated problems of hand contractures. Not only this, the splints are comfortable for patients and easy to fit by a single therapist as well as being cheap to produce and distribute. Continue reading
Surgery Models: New 3D Printing Techniques using MRI & CT Deliver Safer Surgery Training
A collaboration between Nottingham and Loughborough brings a major breakthrough in surgical training, via the production of models that replicate complex bodily structures with high precision. Using data from CT or MRI scans, new 3D modelling techniques are enabling the creation of accurate ceramic models of the sinus for the first time. And there’s huge potential for it in other clinical areas like neurosurgery, cardio and orthopaedics. Continue reading
Patient’s Medicines Bag: Saving Money and Improving Patient Safety by Reducing Drug Errors
The award-winning Patient’s Medicines Bag saves time, money and improves patient safety with an extraordinarily simple and effective innovation. Reducing drug errors, drugs stay with the patient in hospital and ambulance staff spend less time looking for medicines. It has become universal and immediately recognisable across all the hospitals that have adopted it. Continue reading
Computer Assisted Sperm Analysis (CASA): A New Standard for Semen Quality Testing
Semen analysis remains one of the few areas of laboratory medicine with little or no automation, relying on training and technique to provide accurate test results. Led by Dr Mathew Tomlinson, a team at NUH has created a new computerised video tracking process that is helping Nottingham’s NHS fertility service improve standards and increase patient throughput. Continue reading
Nottingham Prognostic Index Plus (NPI+): A Ground Breaking Tool for Breast Cancer
The Nottingham Prognostic Index Plus (NPI+) is an award winning decision making tool for clinicians to offer personalised medicine to all female patients with breast cancer. NPI+ builds considerably upon the original NPI that was developed in Nottingham in the early 1980s. NPI+ includes ground breaking functionality by predicting both clinical outcomes (survival) and by aiding customised therapeutics. NPI+ can be used for all female breast cancer patients, not just those who are oestrogen receptor positive. Continue reading
