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by Kate Pound, Improvement Manager, Emergency Care Improvement Support Team (ECIST)

taken from @gapingvoid on Twitter

This time last year #SolvingTogether was running an urgent and emergency care (UEC) crowdsourcing challenge. So many great ideas were put forward and they contributed to a themed analysis which then developed big ideas for testing around these key areas:

• Using technology to improve accessibility for people who receive care
• Finding the right urgent care service
• Increasing use of technology to improve urgent care
• Supporting ambulance services to work differently
• Sharing examples of good urgent care

A year later I’m now supporting systems in delivering their UEC recovery. When reading through the NHS England UEC Recovery Plan, it highlighted to me the importance of not creating silo working. The principle of #Solving Together is relevant at this stage too. If we took these ideas and blended them with the UEC recovery plan, could we create new opportunities? Would the wisdom of the crowd create diverse thinking and generate new ways of working together to improve care for everyone?

What work would you want to blend together to create greater improvements for your communities?

This post was edited on Jul 26, 2023 by Gillian Driscoll