Our highlights in 2018-19

Here are just some of the highlights our unique partnership and our Health Integration Teams (HITs) have achieved over the last year.

Enabling new research funding

£2.9m total funding for HIT-led research
£4.5m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) follow on funding for SPHERE (Sensor Platform for Healthcare in a Residential Environment)
£6m EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Health and Care, to train the next generation of researchers in using digital technologies
£6.6m Medical Research Council UK Prevention Research Partnership to tackle the root causes of unhealthy planning, economics and decision-making

£656,521 invested in service changes involving our HITs
4 HITs – Stroke, Integrated Pain Management, Avoiding Hospital Admissions and Bristol Bones and Joints – are working closely with local Sustainability and Transformation Partnership Healthier Together on pathway redesign

Attendees at the introduction to digital health training

More than 30 patient and public contributors on HIT leadership teams
Training 11 people to empower them to participate in digital health conversations
5 patient and service user-led events attended by more than 300 people

The audience at the AI in Health and Care event

340 heard from Ben Goldacre, Natalie Banner and Deborah El- Sayed at AI in Health and Care: How do we get it right?
Contributed to more than 10 other events, including the Bristol and Bath Health and Care Awards, the launch of materials to promote safer drug injecting practices, Pedestrian Crossings: the good, the bad and the rationale, the 2018 HIT conference
10.6k followers on Twitter

Work on better use of data, supporting academic connections with Healthier Together in their digital plans including hosting an ‘information engine’ workshop
Contributing to 2 sessions at the Bristol Forum, including a Partnerology session
Contributing to the successful UK Prevention Research Partnership MRC funding bid

Advising East Anglia region on setting up their own health partnership
Sexual Health Improvement Programme (SHIP HIT) submit written evidence to Health and Social Care Committee inquiry into sexual health and anti-microbial resistance
Movement Disorders HIT Directors star in BBC 2 documentary
Healthy Urban Environments (SHINE HIT) responds to West of England joint transport plan
Improving Care in Self-Harm HIT presents to Parliamentary self-harm and suicide prevention group, and contributes to the National Suicide Prevention Strategy