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Staff Innovation Survey

Innovation ToolKit

About 2Bio2Bio Ltd was established as a company in 2007, its founding team having successfully delivered the MerseyBio programme in Liverpool, which developed innovations, IP and new businesses from local Merseyside partners, including the NHS trusts, the universities and independent innovators. 2Bio Ltd is a private, Liverpool-based company that provides expertise in developing and managing innovation, across the healthcare and life science sectors. 2Bio also supports organisations to manage their intellectual property and to commercialise early-stage technologies.2Bio has built on this success, working with clients who require strategic advice to develop their innovation strategies, optimise their R&D outputs, commercialise intellectual property and grow businesses in the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector. 2Bio is now working with a number of NHS trusts in the Merseyside region, including the Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.2Bio’s Healthcare Innovation team works with hospitals and research organisations to initially develop their ability to manage innovation and then where required embed themselves within the culture of the organisation; engaging with innovators to identify and appraise new ideas, supporting development of plans to test and implement good ideas and then sharing the outcomes with management and other organisations.

Contact DetailsDr Charley WardSenior Business Consultant2Bio LtdTel: 0151 7954100Email: [email protected]

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About the Innovation ToolKitThe Regional Innovation Fund supported the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust to develop an Innovation Toolkit to assist NHS Trusts across the North West Coast Academic Health Science Network to better develop an innovative culture within their organisation. This project was conceived as a result of an Innovation Workshop held by The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with the North West Coast Academic Health Science Network, to which innovation leads, R&D managers and clinicians from across the North West were invited. Many individuals at that workshop indicated that they were keen to support innovation but were unsure how best to start. This initiative aimed to assist Innovation Managers to embed innovation as core business in their organisation; enabling them to provide frontline staff with the skills to understand the relevance of innovation how they can play a vital role in identifying or championing bright ideas developed internally or imported from elsewhere that result in tangible benefits for patients. The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust has worked with 2Bio Ltd and OurLife to develop and test this Innovation Toolkit that will enable NHS Trusts to embed innovation as core trust business and support trusts in delivering against innovation objectives. The Innovation Toolkit that has been developed has been tested by a number of NHS Trusts to establish that the ToolKit is suitable for use across a range of healthcare settings including acutes trusts and community trusts. This final Innovation ToolKit is intended to be rolled-out across the North West Academic Health Science Network. In developing this Innovation ToolKit the project team initially sought to determine what Tools should be prioritised for development, by performing a brief survey of a small panel of Trusts designed to understand how 'Innovation Ready' NHS organisations are in the local area, and how well equipped they are to manage, support and promote an innovative culture. The survey was pitched towards Innovation Managers within Trusts who are responsible for engaging with and delivering support to innovators within their organisation. The Innovation Managers were asked questions regarding their perception of the innovation culture within their organisation and to determine what tools they currently have available to them. Following this survey, the findings were shared with these Trusts and a menu of potential Tools presented for discussion. This final ToolKit has been developed as a consequence of those discussions.

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Staff SurveyThe Staff Innovation Survey is designed to be used by Innovation Managers within NHS Trusts to determine how knowledgeable staff are, across their organisation, in respect to understanding innovation and knowing about the support that is available locally. This survey has been made available as an editable Word document (in the next section), so that Innovation Mangers can import the questions into their own survey tools. A fully electronic version is also available and can be shared with Innovation Managers via Google Forms; this Google Form version can be individually copied and the Innovation Manager can distribute their own version and collate and analyse their own responses. Please contact Dr Charley Ward ([email protected]) if you require the Google Form version; you will need to register for a Google account.


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Innovation SurveyIntroductionWe need your feedback to help to develop a stronger innovative culture within our organi-sation

This survey is designed to understand how "innovation aware'' staff are in our organisa-tion, and how well equipped they are to develop, manage, support and drive innovation projects. The results from this survey will be used to prioritise key areas of need around which we will seek to further develop our innovation support framework.

Individual results will not be shared, so please try to be open with us - that way we can best determine your needs

Thank you for taking the time to assist us.


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About You

1. About You (most are optional)

Name

Job Title

Department *

Contact Details(optional)


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Innovation Awareness

2. How well does your organisation understand and prioritise innovation?

strongly disagree

slightly disagree

neither agree

nor disagree

slightly agree

strongly agree

My organisation communicates a strong message about what innovation is

My organisation understands what supporting innovation involves

My organisation has a dedicated support framework for innovation

Supporting innovation is a stated strategic objective of my organisation

My organisation has an innovation representative on its board

My organisation has appointed an Innovation Manager

My organisation has a dedicated budget for supporting innovation

Any additional comments

3. How well do you understand innovation?

strongly disagree

slightly disagree

neither agree

nor disagree

slightly agree

strongly agree

I feel that I have a clear understanding of what


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3. How well do you understand innovation?

strongly disagree

slightly disagree

neither agree

nor disagree

slightly agree

strongly agree

innovation is

I feel that I have a clear understanding of what innovation involves

I feel that I understand the benefits that supporting innovation can have for my organisation


4. What do you consider to be included under the definition of innovation? please tick all that apply

Medical devices

Medicine/Therapeutics

Diagnostic kits


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4. What do you consider to be included under the definition of innovation? please tick all that apply

Imaging

Telemedicine

Medical Software

Pathways

Databases

Organisational Changes

Procedures

Care Bundles

Training MAterials

Guidelines

Intellectual Property

Service Changes

Adoption of externally-developed ideas

Inventions

Other (please specify)


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Engagement with the Innovation Support Team

5. How engaged is your Innovation Support Team?

strongly disagree

slightly disagree

neither agree

nor disagree

slightly agree

strongly agree

I engage regularly with the innovation manger at my organisation

My organisation has formally appointed 'Innovation Champions' within each department

My organisation has informal 'Innovation Champions' within each department

The innovation support team regularly attend team or departmental meetings

I have examples of successful innovation activity that we can use as case studies for our department



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Innovation Management: Internal Innovations

6. How supportive is your organisation to develop innovations?

strongly disagree

slightly disagree

neither agree

nor disagree

slightly agree

strongly agree

They have a robust process for documenting new ideas

They have a robust process for appraising new ideas

We receive useful feedback on new ideas

We receive support for developing plans for developing, testing and implementing new ideas

We receive support for obtaining funding to support innovation projects

We receive support for tracking the progress of innovation projects

We have a robust process in place for obtaining management support for implementing new ideas



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Innovation Management: External Innovations

7. How prepared is your organisation to identify and support the adoption of externally-developed ideas?

strongly disagree

slightly disagree

neither agree

nor disagree

slightly agree

strongly agree

We regularly survey the external landscape for good ideas which we could adopt

We regularly engage with other organisations to source good ideas

We often receive communications on external innovations from the innovation manager

We receive support to appraise external innovations

We receive support for developing plans for implementing external innovations

We receive support for tracking the progress of external innovation projects

We have a robust process in place for obtaining management support for implementing external innovations


8. Where do you go to source external innovations? please tick all that apply

QIPP

NICE Guidelines


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8. Where do you go to source external innovations? please tick all that apply

Health TechnologiesAdoption Programme

NHS Catalogue of Potential Innovations

CIMIT CoLab Portal

Companies

Academic Health Science Network

Northern Health Science Alliance

NHS IQ

Other NHS Trusts



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Innovation Challenges

9. What are the biggest challenges you face with respect to innovation? please tick all that apply

I do not really understand innovation

I find it challenging to engage with the innovation manager/team

There are not enough good ideas identified at our organisation

We have too many ideas to effectively manage

We find it hard to prioritise ideas for support

We have insufficient resource for supporting innovation projects

Colleagues are unwilling to accommodate change to allow new ideas to be implemented

We are unable to properly quantify the potential benefits of a new idea to convince staff and management to make changes

We are unable to effectively monitor and track innovation projects

Staff at our organisation are unwilling to adopt ideas developed elsewhere

We do not have the time available to lead and implement innovation projects

There are too many barriers to implementing change

We have insufficient good examples to exemplify the benefits of innovation to encourage staff



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Innovation Tools

10. What information do you receive on innovation?

We have website/intranet dedicated to innovation

There is plenty of educational material or information available

We have innovation workshops/seminar programmes

Our organisation has a specific innovation campaign

We receive data on innovation performance eg. number of innovations

There is a dedicated innovation budget/fund



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Innovation History

11. Have you ever participated (or do you plan to participate) in any of the following activities? (Please tick all that apply)

Yes Plan to Yes, but not as an employee

of this Trust

Identifying an innovative idea to your organisation

Implementing an innovative idea at your organisation

Interactions with companies

Providing product or service feedback to companies

Delivering services to companies

Undertaking research

Undertaking commercial research

Performing clinical trials

Inventing a new product idea

Creating intellectual property (e.g. patent, copyright, software)

Commercialising intellectual property


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Thank YouThank you for taking the time to complete this survey.

This survey is part of the Innovation Toolkit, that was developed through a collaboration between the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, 2Bio Ltd and Good Squared.

This work was funded through the Regional Innovation Fund


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