Scouting Information to Aid Innovation The role of
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Scouting Information to Aid Innovation The role of a Librarian Innovation Scout
Health Innovation Scout Network Innovation Scouts Ø Identify, assess and bring forward new innovations from their NHS Organisation to HEE for development Ø Raise awareness of innovation throughout their organisation Ø Promote adoption and diffusion of new ideas and best practice around the Eastern region Innovation Scout Network Ø Established by HEE in 2008 Ø Provided Innovation Scout training to over 100 NHS staff Ø Work with 35 current and active Innovation Scouts from a variety of different NHS Organisations
What have we done? The Executives Revised the IP policy, persuaded the DCEO to become the IP Lead and set up quarterly meetings with the DCEO IT Set up an IP database Created an innovation page on the Library website Intellectual Property Registered a trade mark Events Enter the Dragons 2015
Library Established a monthly current awareness bulletin aimed at health managers and highlighting innovation Trust recognition Innovation award to be included in our annual Shining Lights awards (sponsored by HEE) Commissioned to deliver a new training course on presentations and copyright Fame at last! Made a film with HEE Runner-up in the Sally Hernando Awards Got invited to UHMLG 2015!
What didn’t work Raising our profile The website – people didn’t look at it All about me, not about the service Emphasis on my skills and knowledge rather than what the Library could do for innovation IP database Excel spreadsheet and totally reliant on staff finding me, not a systematic record of innovation in the Trust Time management On top of the day job
What did work! Executive buy-in (eventually…) Regular quarterly meetings – direct access to TEG Raising our profile Innovation pages to be added to the intranet HEE Closer ties mean more opportunities for training and promotion of the role and networking with other scouts Sponsorship of Dragons and Shining Lights Mutually beneficial relationship Dragons To be incorporated into Shining Lights annually HMIU To be re formatted to form the basis of the monthly report to the Board
West Suffolk Dragons This process ensures that all innovations are filtered by the library first. We carry out literature searches or other types of research to test the viability of an idea and to gather as much information as possible for TEG. We are independent of both the innovator and TEG, but we will seek to find as much evidence as possible to support an idea.
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