Resources
Welcome to the Health Innovation West Midlands (HIWM) Resources page. This section offers resources designed to advance healthcare innovation across the West Midlands. These resources are here to support healthcare professionals and organisations in adopting innovative practices and improving patient care. Explore our collection to stay informed and enhance your healthcare initiatives.
Impact Reports
Impact Report 2023 – 2024
Discover the impact HIWM had in the West Midlands and beyond, across 2023 – 2024.
Impact Report 2022 – 2023
Discover the impact HIWM had in the West Midlands and beyond, across 2022 – 2023.
Impact Report 2021 – 2022
Discover the impact HIWM had in the West Midlands and beyond, across 2021 – 2022.
Health Innovation Network Impacts 2021 – 2022
Discover the Health Innovation Networks impacts across 2021 – 2022.
Toolkits and Guides
A Guide to Quality Improvement in Care Homes
A practical guide for care home teams to help guide and support them in designing and delivering a Quality Improvement (QI) project.
Heart Failure Toolkit
Our developed Heart Failure toolkit ensures that systems have an awareness of the evidence-based pathways.
Sustainable Theatres and Anaesthetics Toolkit
A free resource aimed at supporting theatres and anaesthetic teams in improving environmental impact.
Journals
Effect of cancer waiting time standards in the English National Health Service: a threshold analysis
A retrospective study of publicly available cancer waiting time data, examined against NHS targets by financial year to look for threshold effects.
Cluster randomised evaluation of a training intervention to increase the use of statistical process control charts for hospitals in England: making data count
This study evaluates the effectiveness of Statistical process control (SPC) training against the background of a wider national initiative to encourage the adoption of SPC charts.
Mixed-methods evaluation of an enhanced asthma biologics clinical pathway in the West Midlands UK
This paper reports the findings of an independent, mixed methods evaluation of the effectiveness of the pathway changes in improving patient referrals, treatment waiting times and clinical outcomes.
Reports and Reviews
Regional Implementation of Strategies to Improve Clinical Escalation in Intrapartum Care
Lessons from A Mixed Methods Evaluation across the Midlands Region
Review of the Spread & Adoption Approaches Across the Health Innovation Network
This review identifies and captures learning from the Academic Health Science Networks (Health Innovation Networks) on methods used with partners in the health and care sector to spread and adopt innovation.
Innovation exchanges: delivering economic growth through the Health Innovation Network
Innovation Exchanges are a Health Innovation Network coordinated approach to identify, select and support the adoption of innovations which have the potential to stimulate our economy and transform the lives of patients.
Reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic to inform the health and care system of the future: the Health Innovation Network experience
This report reflects on the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic and reflects on how it can inform future health care systems.