Take part NOW in the NEW ‘Living Well With Dementia Design Council Challenge’

One in three of us who live to 65 will have some form of dementia before we die.

The Design Council and the Department of Health want you to rethink life with dementia. A million people in the UK will be living with the condition by 2021. But there’s a difference between simply living and living well.

They are challenging you to make the lives of people affected by dementia better.

Take part in the Living well with dementia challenge

You give: time + your team + your ideas

You get: a slice of £360,000K + professional support

Design Council challenges are an opportunity to use your skills in a new area, whilst making a real difference to people’s lives.

Interested? Find out more at www.designchallenges.ning.com

This challenge is about coming up with new ideas and making them happen. If you want to get involved, put together a team of people and submit a PDF of your application by 5pm on the 30th of September 2011.

Please contact me directly if you are interested in partnering with Young Foundation on 0121 380 9019/ 07956 317 236 or eleanor.cappell@youngfoundation.org

How will you make A&E calmer, safer and more efficient?

More than 500 designers, architects and industry providers have already registered their interest in the Reducing violence and aggression in A&E by design challenge.

There’s less than three weeks left for you to form teams and take part in this national design challenge to develop solutions that reduce the human and financial cost of violence and aggression towards NHS staff in A&E.

Take part in the challenge
The Design Council and the Department of Health are offering winning teams a fund of up to £150,000 and the chance to work with NHS staff on redesigning A&E environments, processes, services and information systems.
The Design Council and Department of Health are offering a fund of £150,000 and the chance to work with NHS staff on redesigning A&E environments, processes, services and information systems.
Want to know more about the challenge?
Download an entry pack, receive updates on the application process and network with 500+ potential project partners on the Reducing violence and aggression in A&E by design Ning.
Any questions?

Contact Catherine Pratt on 020 7420 5260 or catherine.pratt@designcouncil.org.uk for further information and for help forming teams to respond to the Reducing violence and aggression in A&E by design challenge.

Key dates
04 April 2011
Deadline for proposals to be submitted

14 April 2011
Shortlisted entries interviewed at the Design Council

18 April 2011
Selected design team/s announced

Celebrate Social Enterprise Day 2010

9:00 – 12:00 noon
Friday 19th November 2010
Open to all NHS Birmingham East and North staff

The DH White Paper ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS’ states:
“Our ambition is to create the largest and most vibrant social enterprise sector in the world”. “We believe that the NHS is an integral part of Big Society”. This event is a response to the White Paper, as we begin the transition process come and hear how our trust supports social enterprise, what we can do for you and how you can get involved.

In a recent survey of NHS BEN staff, respondents reported that:
37% do not have contact with social enterprises in their line of work at the PCT
85% have never been involved in the development of a social enterprise
77% would not know how to go about developing a social enterprise within the PCT

To build awareness and understanding of social enterprise, this event is an important opportunity to explore:

• Links between GP Commissioning and social enterprise
• Tried and tested examples of working with social enterprises in the NHS
• Opportunities to access seed funding
• Specialist social enterprise support available to NHS staff

Topics & Speakers:
‘Why NHS BEN values social enterprises in a new world’
Andy Donald, Chief Operating Officer, NHS Birmingham East and North

‘The definition, facts & figures of social enterprise and a SEiR’
Eleanor Cappell, Social Entrepreneur in Residence (SEiR)

‘NHS BEN’s Social Enterprise Show & Tell – direct from the horses mouth’
John Taylor Hospice
Start Again CIC and
Saheli Women’s Group

Q&A session chaired by Young Foundation

‘The Commissioning Spectrum & Moving Towards a More Systematic Healthcare’
Sam German, Director of Process Improvement, NHS BEN

Social Enterprise Market Stall
Ideas Bank – submit your thoughts, questions and ideas to develop social enterprises
Social Investment Business – the fastest growing social investor in the UK
DH Right to Request Regional Support Network
Young Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur in Residence

More Information: Eleanor Cappell via 0121 380 9019 or eleanor.cappell@benpct.nhs.uk

Call for Ideas!

Calling all NHS staff for big bold ideas with a:

• Focus on a condition with high population incidence levels
• Hypotheses/ proposal to try something new
• Deliver cost savings within 12-18 months
• Ideas will need to be tested and piloted to benefit residents of Birmingham

Young Foundation is a charity. We support innovative ideas and new solutions to tackle health inequalities and offer support in the following areas:

• Financial investment
• Strategic advice
• Profile, influence and sales
• Access to further investment
• Opportunities to develop as an entrepreneur

We are looking for ideas from individuals or teams of nurses; GPs; commissioners; managers; directors; community development workers; health workers; health trainers; patients; residents; careers; entrepreneurs and innovators! To be inspired open the case study for NeuroResponse which is a great example of an innovative ideas that excites us.

To take the next step contact Eleanor Cappell, Social Entrepreneur in Residence

M: 07956 317 236

E: Eleanor.cappell@youngfoundation.org

BEN’s Got Talent – Ideas Bank

‘BEN’s Got Talent’ is a campaign to tackle health inequalities by unleashing the entrepreneurial talent of people in Birmingham. The campaign is managed by NHS Birmingham East and North’s Social Entrepreneur in Residence, supported by the Young Foundation.

  

Submit an idea if you can identify:

• A problem, gap or an un-met need in healthcare
• An innovative and creative solution to address your specific problem
• How your idea will create positive and lasting change to tackle health inequalities
• How your idea meets local and national strategies i.e. NHS Birmingham East and North’s Strategic Plan
• How your idea will make money and be sustainable
• How your idea can be delivered beyond Birmingham
• An  individual or team with entrepreneurial flair who has an idea and wants to make it happen

What we offer:

• Development capital – support and funding
• Strategic advice
• Profile, influence and sales
• Access to further investment and funding
• Opportunities to develop yourself as a social entrepreneur 

We are currently looking for ideas from: nurses; doctors; commissioners; health managers and directors; community development workers; health workers and trainers; patients; residents; careers; entrepreneurs and innovators. In fact, anyone that has a great idea that positively improves health and wellbeing.