CPI welcome the Mongolian National Development and Innovation Committee

CPI were invited by the University of Bradford to meet a delegation from the Mongolian National Development and Innovation Committee – a non-ministerial strategic planning unit reporting directly to the Prime Minister. Members of the NDIC were in the UK on a fact-finding trip to find out ways to promote innovation to help Mongolia move to become a knowledge-based economy and to help it meet its Millennium Development Goals.

Mark Napier, Managing Director at the Centre for Public Innovation, spoke to the delegation about the role of service innovation and how to go about promoting it in the public sector, as well as how innovation could be used to help the Mongolian government meet its Millennium Development Goals.
 

An independent evaluation of the South East Alcohol Innovation Programme (SEAIP), which ran from 2009 to 2011, found that all ten of the projects scrutinised could succeed anywhere in the country. It concluded that:

•Five of the projects identified significant cost savings, with the potential if extended to save the NHS and local authorities millions of pounds
•Five of the projects reported reduced hospital admissions among their client groups
•Three of the projects have been taken up as NHS Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) initiatives, indicating their high potential to demonstrate innovation and increase quality and productivity. A further three of the projects are continuing.
The SEAIP was funded by the Government Office for the South East (GOSE) and managed by the Centre for Public Innovation (CPI). In its first year, it gave £146,000 to 26 projects to test a variety of innovative approaches to reduce the harm caused by alcohol misuse.

The five most successful models were then tested again the next year, with ten projects awarded a total of £118,750 to emulate their ideas. These were evaluated independently between May and August 2011, with the results published in October 2011. Although a formal health economic appraisal was not possible the evaluation indicates significant potential savings could be made using this approach.

To read the full report click here.

Set up in Late 2009 with the aim of devising new approaches to tackling alcohol related harm and reducing drink related hospital admissions, the SEAIP has reached its final stages. Last month CPI ran a second “innovation showcase” to celebrate the programmes achievements and share the lessons learned. 

DDN reports on how The South East Alcohol Innovation Programme has demonstrated that in these straitened times, effectiveness needn’t cost the earth.

To read the full article please click here.
 

Here is an innovative programme delivered by CPI to ensure the people of Brighton enjoyed the fun and festivities of Christmas and the New Year.

Brighton Boozebusters launched a series of innovative local projects designed.

Here is an amusing look at how they got on
 

Exciting news is emerging from a number of our Year 2 grant winners. The impact that a number of these are having is already being felt with some already being incorporated into mainstream provision.

• The Brighton Frequent Flyers project has received further funding to allow it to continue running up until November 2011.
• The Brighton Clinical Nurse project has received funding from both the City Council and PCT to fund the post for a full year, with a view to possible further funding after that pending outcomes achieved.
• The Hastings Frequent Flyer model has helped to develop a strong working relationship between the Emergency Department team and colleagues in alcohol treatment. Clients beyond the scope of the pilot are being referred into treatment on an almost daily basis.

On January 26th 2011, staff from the Alcohol Programme worked with a range of key stakeholders from across West Sussex to work together to help improve discharge care planning from St Richards Hospital in Chichester. This work has helped to ensure better care for patients and will help make the vital link between hospital and community based services.

The CPI managed South East Alcohol Innovation Programme has funded a 15 week Hostel–based Clinical Nurse Pilot Project that has featured on the HubCAPP website.

Initial client feedback suggests that this pilot has been immensely popular.

Click here to read the full report.

The Frequent Flyer concept - one of our High Impact Innovation Models – has proved to be of particular interest, not only to commissioners and providers across the South East, but also elsewhere around the country. To help facilitate dialogue between people interested in how this model works and how to roll it out, the Programme team have set up an online forum to facilitate discussion. The forum can be found at:

http://www.alcohollearningcentre.org.uk/discuss/forum/?forumID=66

CPI founder and associate, Peter Mason, gives his insight on how to acheive during these tough times in this week's Drink and Drugs News.

"Use Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGS) to get out of ruts. If you ask for ways to be 10 per cent lower in cost or higher in gain, you will probably refine what you now do as continuous improvement.  If you ask what you would do if in two years you had half the money or what you would do to double gains with the same money, you would think far more creatively."


For more food for thought - read the article here.

On the 13th November 2010, representatives from the South East Alcohol Innovation Programme participated in an event looking at identifying promising approaches to reduce alcohol related harm, run by Alcohol Concern and Middlesex University. As well as a being invited to speak about the Programme and what it has delivered, pilot project innovator Alan Knobel from Portsmouth City Council spoke about his project - the Frequent Flyer model – and shared lessons learned.