At Clatterbridge, we have introduced innovations with local, national and international impact and the Trust’s Innovation Strategy affirms that the generation of fresh ideas, the creation of novel solutions and bringing in new ways of working drives better outcomes for patients.
The strategy, led by Clinical Lead for Innovation Dr Seamus Coyle and Innovation Manager Simon Bunting, has one of the Trust’s six strategic priorities at its heart – Be Innovative – and outlines a plan to nurture enterprise throughout its workforce.
The document outlines how Clatterbridge has been innovative in the past, creating new commercial companies, a joint venture, and launching initiatives such as the award-winning Clatterbridge in the Community scheme, providing at-home cancer treatments to patients. But it aims to embed this culture of innovation into the organisation through the new strategy to drive even better treatment and care.
Over the next three years, in terms of innovation the Trust will:
- Facilitate a shift in culture to encourage all staff to spot problems and suggest solutions
- Facilitate access for all staff to have the skills, experiences and permissions to innovate and become self-improving
- Facilitate the development of education resources to train staff on the protection of their intellectual property
- Raise awareness of Innovation at CCC across all staff groups and business areas
- Establish an Innovation governance structure across the Trust
- Establish CCC as a centre for Culture of Innovation regionally and nationally
- Establish a process for the development, evaluation and commercialisation of innovations
- Establish a scheme to facilitate the submission of large-scale innovation projects to the Innovation Service, also supported by the Innovation Fund
- Help to secure funding for innovations with significant commercial potential and/or benefit to patients or staff
- Establish routes to link adoption of innovation and transformation
- Establish routes to link innovation and continuous improvement
- Cultivate partnerships with academic, commercial and other NHS organisations both regionally and nationally.
You can read the Innovation Strategy (2023-2025) here: Innovation Strategy: Innovation strategy : The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.
You can read our latest Research and Innovation Department Annual Report here: R&I Research and Innovation Annual Report