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Do you wonder what happens to all the comments, suggestions and ideas that are shared during the crowdsourcing stage?

This week, we’d like to highlight the Solving Together Roadmap which reflects the full journey from planning the challenges, ideas captured at the crowdsourcing stage through testing and into implementation. We’ve picked out three stages to tell you more about.

Gillian Driscoll, Solving Together’s Community Mobilisation Lead, tells us about People and Communities Solving Together how important it is to create the right conditions before crowdsourcing begins to ensure people and communities are involved.

In her blog, Designing Together, Kate Pound, Improvement Manager in NHS England’s Emergency Care Improvement Support Team (ECIST) tells us more about the prototyping stage of the roadmap where we use learning to improve things. Kate shares with us Thomas Edison’s great quote which sums it up well "I have not failed; I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

An example of how new ideas are shared at the scale and spread stage is the creation of the Restoring NHS Services Inclusively space on the Health Inequalities Improvement Programme Future NHS page. This emerged from the crowdsourcing phase of Solving Together for elective care recovery. More than 8,000 people joined in the conversation generating 392 ideas from 100,000 interactions. Every single idea and comment have been reviewed by more than 30 champions who are supporting this work, led by regional NHS leads, including people with lived experience, national clinical directors, experts in health inequalities and system improvers. The page shares the outputs from a Data Driven Inclusive Elective Recovery event held earlier this year and provides a space for discussion, learning and building networks around health inequalities and elective care.

Let’s keep Solving Together….

If you’d like to know more about other stages of the Solving Together Roadmap , leave a comment on this post, to let us know which ones, and we’ll highlight them in a future edition.

Continuing the conversations and staying connected

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The Solving Together team hopes this update has been helpful. We look forward to keeping in touch with you and your networks.

This post was edited on Jul 19, 2023 by Gillian Driscoll