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The NHS North of Scotland Innovation Hub, NHS Highland, HIE and UHI will be hosting a health innovation networking event: Health Innovation Junction: Where Ideas Meet Impact on 18th June 2024 at Eden Court, Inverness.

Our aim is to bring together stakeholders in NHS (including support agencies), academia and businesses to network, exhibit and discuss the challenges being faced in healthcare delivery and explore the best new and emerging technologies from industry that could create transformational change.

REGISTER

Registration is now open, to attend and exhibit REGISTER HERE.

EXHIBIT

If you wish to exhibit your company or product during the Exhibition/Trade Fair session please complete the REGISTRATION FORM.

AGENDA

VENUE

The event will take place at the Bishops Palace at Eden Court, in the beautiful city of Inverness, the capital of the Scottish Highlands.  The city offers spectacular scenery like Loch Ness (you might find the mysterious Loch Ness monster if you are lucky!), historical Culloden battlefield, castles like Urquhart, a victorian market, famous whisky tours and a lot more. It is a vibrant city with friendly people. For more information, visit https://www.visitscotland.com/destinations-maps/inverness/.

Directions and further information can be found here Eden Court - Getting Here.

ACCOMMODATION

If you require overnight accommodation here is a list of some hotels close to the venue:

• Palace Hotel
• Columba Hotel
• Premier Inn, River Ness
• Glen Mhor Hotel and Apartments, Ness Bank
• Glenmoriston Townhouse
• Premier Inn, Inverness West
• Travelodge, Inverness City Centre

If you have any queries regarding the event please contact gram.nosinnovationtestbed@nhs.scot.

NHS Tayside Innovation provided an exciting opportunity for budding innovators within the NHS Tayside workforce to take part in their first Dragons' Den event on 25th April 2024 within Ninewells Hospital, Dundee.

Six brave finalists pitched their innovation ideas to the Dragons and were delighted to all walk away with an offer of funding from NHS Tayside Charitable Foundation to undertake their project over the next twelve months with support from NHS Tayside Innovation.

The event helped showcase the talent and passion of NHS staff in Tayside, and the support available from NHS Tayside Innovation. Events like this are so important in encouraging grass roots innovation, and the varied pitches covered a diverse range of specialities.

The success of the event has shown that everyone in the NHS has the potential to be an innovator!

For more information about NHS Tayside Innovation please email tay.innovation@nhs.scot or visit the website: https://www.nhstayside.scot.nhs.uk/OurServicesA-Z/InnovationTeam/index.htm.

• What should people working in health and social care be doing with their time?
• How can we make those precious hours count?

In an era of unprecedented financial and workforce pressure humans should really only be doing things that are uniquely human; things that can’t be done by software or other technology.

In the same way that washing machines have replaced wash day and a quick check on your phone has replaced a trip to the library, we need to use available technology to remove more low value tasks from humans in the health and social care environment.

This is the main message of Spending Time Where it Counts: an Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Health & Social Care in the North of Scotland. The Strategy lays out in simple terms how we can achieve this: how we can build on existing successes with AI in the region and increase the adoption of Robotics, Process Automation, Machine Learning and Predictive Analytics.

The strategy was drafted by a multidisciplinary group and was endorsed by the Chief Executives and Chief Officers from across the region. A public consultation took place in late 2023 and the strategy has now been published.

An implementation group is now forming in order to take forward the recommendations of the strategy.

Please follow the below link to explore the strategy in full.

Time Where it Counts Report landscape.pdf

Dr Steve Baguley, Clinical Director of eHealth, NHS Grampian, Chair of the Writing Group

NHS Grampian were delighted to host the The North of Scotland Innovation Hub Network Event on 14th December 2023 in the Sheddocksley Baptist Church in Aberdeen City.

The event was attended by members from across the hub, along with external partners and industry members. The day was a huge success with the theme of "less presentations and more conversations", with the focus on creating opportunities for everyone to contribute to the day, and stimulate thought provoking discussions.

The keynote speakers for this event were:

Eric Doyle - Managing Director from The OGV Studio who shared his TEDx Talk "Passion Will Get You Moving."  Learn more at:Eric Doyle Passion Will Get You Moving

John Greig - Technology Strategist from Microsoft shared a presentation on "Exploring the Potential of AI in Healthcare."

Both sessions were thought provoking and engaging discussions that we hope have inspired the team to look forward to what comes next in 2024.

The afternoon session was broken up into interactive networking sessions with some of the project partners from NoS showcasing demonstrations of their projects and products. This session was well received by all and we extend a massive thanks to all who came along and took part.