Join us on April 9, 2025, for National HSCP Day as we celebrate the theme: "Innovating Health and Social Care: Embracing Technology, Research, and Evidence"
This year's theme highlights the transformative power of integrating technology, research, and evidence-based practices in health and social care. By focusing on these key elements, we aim to enhance patient outcomes, improve service delivery, and foster a forward-thinking approach to care.
We invite all Health and Social Care Professionals to participate in this special day. Use the day to share your innovative projects, research findings, and success stories that embody this year's theme with your colleagues. Whether it's a telehealth initiative, social care innovation or an evidence-based practice that has improved patient care, your contributions are invaluable.
Examples of Innovation in Health and Social Care:
- Evidence-Based Guidelines: Adopting clinical guidelines based on the latest research to ensure effective and up-to-date care practices.
- Research in Practice: Conducting and applying research to develop new treatments, improve existing protocols, and ensure that care practices are grounded in the latest scientific evidence.
- Scientific Health Innovation: Innovations in fields such as biomedical science, radiography, and physiotherapy are driving advancements in diagnostics, treatment, and patient rehabilitation.
- Telehealth Services: Implementing telehealth platforms to provide remote consultations and monitor patients, increasing accessibility and convenience.
- Social Care Innovations: Utilising technology and research to develop new approaches in social work, mental health support, and community care, ensuring services are responsive to the needs of diverse populations.
Let's come together to recognise the dedication and innovation of our Health and Social Care Professionals who are committed to making a difference in our communities. Share your stories and join the conversation on HSCP Day 9 April 2025. Please contact: hscp.nationaloffice@hse.ie.
The HSE Spark Innovation Opportunity Canvas – HSCP Sparking Evidence based Conversations
Health & Social Care Professionals on this and every day, will be planning and delivering vital services individually and in teams in every care setting across the Irish health service.
To acknowledge HSCP desire to improve and to encourage discussion and documentation of HSCP effectiveness and value using an evidence based approach, we are delighted to team up with HSE Spark to offer the Innovation opportunity canvas to spark evidence based conversations.
The template is designed to encourage HSCP working alone or in a team, to approach a health & social care challenge, and develop solutions through the evidence based approach of Design Thinking.
How To Use
The canvas can be printed out in A3 and used a wall chart for a group HSCP to actively focus on their service users and take a step by step approach to problem solving as an activity on HSCP Day 2025
How does this align with the HSCP Day Theme?
Design thinking is considered an evidence-based approach to healthcare quality improvement for several reasons:
- User-Centered Focus: Design thinking emphasizes understanding the needs and experiences of patients and healthcare providers. By incorporating their feedback throughout the development process, interventions are more likely to be usable, acceptable, and effective
- Iterative Process: This approach involves continuous testing and refinement of ideas. Small-scale demonstrations or tests of change allow for frequent corrections and improvements based on real-world feedback
- Enhanced Innovation: Design thinking fosters creativity and innovation by encouraging diverse perspectives and collaborative problem-solving. This leads to more effective solutions that address complex healthcare challenges
- Improved Outcomes: Studies have shown that interventions developed using design thinking often result in greater satisfaction, usability, and effectiveness compared to traditional methods
- Systematic Approach: Design thinking integrates established principles and models of quality improvement, making it a structured and reliable method for enhancing healthcare processes
Overall, design thinking helps bridge the gap between intervention development and implementation, ensuring that new solutions are tailored to the actual needs of users and are more likely to be successfully adopted in healthcare settings
Whether it's using evidence to approach a problem or finding innovative solutions that has improved patient care, your contributions are invaluable and we look forward to seeing examples of your good work at the conference in October.
The National HSCP Conference on 7 October 2025, then offers HSCP the opportunity to showcase their evidence based approach to improving care and innovation solutions amongst their peers.
Where can the Canvas be found
The ‘‘HSCP Sparking Evidence based Conversations’ canvas is available to download below. It is recommended that it is printed in A3 size.
The National HSCP Office can support innovation and the journey from problem to solution in the following ways
Email: hscp.nationaloffice@hse.ie
- Refer to our HSCP Deliver Strategic Framework 2021 –2026.
- Submit an Abstract of your work to the National HSCP Conference 2025.
The HSE HSCP Deliver A Strategic Framework 2021-2026 was co-created to articulate the impact of the full collective potential of the 26 HSCP on our health services and the population they serve. It also describes the commitments that HSCP collectively make to delivering on that potential and the support and actions required from colleagues and other specific relevant stakeholders to realise this potential.
The third HSCP Deliver commitment is ‘Using technology, research and evidence to its fullest to plan and deliver our services’ and is the foundation for our HSCP theme this year.
HSCP Day 9th April 2025: Innovating Health and Social Care: Embracing Technology, Research, and Evidence
References
Design Thinking in Health Care - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Evidence-Based Practice and its Relationship to Quality Improvement
Section 4: Ways to Approach the Quality Improvement Process
