NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation

Look out for our NSW Health colleagues in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade this Saturday, 1 March. "Marching in the parade demonstrates NSW Health's commitment to both creating a workplace where staff feel valued and respected, and to providing inclusive healthcare for LGBTIQ+ communities," says Lisa Thorpy, co-chair of our Rainbow ACI Working Group. The group strives to make the ACI a more inclusive workplace and supports our contributions towards an LGBTIQ+ inclusive health system. Find out more about NSW Health's Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Guide at https://bit.ly/4k1bbWr and happy Mardi Gras! 🌈 #SydneyMardiGras | Karen Perini Christina Lowry Rebecca Donovan Rachael Havrlant Catherine Knight Monica Tamas AJ Jensen

Join the conversation at our next Patient Reported Measures (PRMs) Community of Interest meeting on 19 March 2025 to explore: ✔️ Embedding PRMs into menopause care with the ACI's Danella Hackett and Gill Neil from the Royal Hospital for Women ✔️ How patient voices are being captured to tell cancer experience stories with Alexis Gazzard from Cancer Institute NSW. If you've implemented PRMs or want to, don't miss this opportunity to network and learn. Register here 👉 https://bit.ly/3Vsc14p #PatientReportedMeasures #Cancer #Menopause | Gill Hartas Matilda Armstrong Aaron Hall Melissa Tinsley Katelyn Crean Maaike Allard Carolyn Ripper Kate Scalia Diane van ’t Hoff Amanda Fung Wisam Merhebi South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD)

We support the health system by generating evidence that's fundamental to healthcare innovation. This evidence base includes clinician and consumer insights, data and analytics, and research and evaluation. Over the past year, this included: 📊 Making complex data more accessible to inform decisions and improve care, through automated, real-time visualisations. 🚑 Evaluating the experience of patients and staff using the NSW Health Urgent Care Services Program, which aims to reduce pressure on emergency departments. 💲 Expanding our research project partnerships, with 40 current projects worth more than $92M in grant funding across a range of clinical areas. Learn more about how evidence is informing changes to clinical care in A Focus on ACI: https://bit.ly/41c7XYM #Evidence #Data | Andrew Milat Tara Dimopoulos-Bick Marie Mitchell Hassan Assareh Laura Holliday Henry Ko Rosemarie Sadsad Florent G. Hankiz Dolan Leanne Ruggero Tom Chen Andrew Gill Thu Vuong Jessie Lam

Do you have a healthcare or medical solution that you're ready to take from concept to market? The 2025 NSW Health Commercialisation Training Program from our colleagues at NSW Medical Research with Cicada Innovations can fast-track your health tech career. People with established and validated innovations such as medical devices, software, pharmaceuticals, therapeutics or diagnostics can apply for four free courses here: https://bit.ly/42Jp5X5 At the 3-day workshops you'll: 💡 explore your sector and chosen market 💡 create connections with industry mentors and peers 💡 strategise about accelerating growth. #HealthTech #MedTech | Jean-Frederic Levesque Kim Sutherland

The Virtual Health Interpreters Service is a NSW Health Award winning project that prioritises accessibility for multicultural patients as well as improving environmental sustainability. By establishing the virtual service at the Nepean Hospital Women’s and Children’s outpatient department, Luke O'Connell and his Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) team significantly reduced travel time for interpreters and patients, and cut related carbon emissions. The project has: ✅ saved the environment more than 5,000 kgCO2e ✅ saved patients and interpreters 22,000 travel kms. Learn how clinicians are delivering sustainable healthcare across NSW by exploring our latest project series on the Innovation Exchange: https://bit.ly/3RjwMNc #Sustainability #SustainableHealthcare | Madelaine Cherrington (she/her) Josephine Simic Donna Parkes Melissa Tinsley Tingting Chen

Our new Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing stream is the catalyst for how all teams at the ACI will integrate an Aboriginal health lens into their work. In 2025, the new stream will help to ensure innovations are culturally appropriate, informed and meet system needs, through: 🖤 Engaging with our Aboriginal partners in health 💛 Keeping an Aboriginal voice at the forefront of projects ❤️ Working with stakeholders to achieve the NSW Aboriginal Health Plan 2024–34. Learn more about how we partner with Aboriginal people and communities in A Focus on ACI: https://bit.ly/3CwrjOR #AboriginalHealth | Kristen Ella David Follent Catherine Kostovski Melissa Cawley Jean-Frederic Levesque

Caring for someone with a severe burn injury is complex. The new Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Clinical Practice Guide from our Statewide Burn Injury Service brings together the latest evidence to cover scar management, skin care, exercise, compression and other treatments. Download it here: https://bit.ly/4aKo6rs Thank you to the clinical experts at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Royal North Shore Hospital and Concord Repatriation General Hospital severe burn units who contributed to this vital resource. #Burns #BurnInjury | Vincent Costanzo Anne Darton Siobhan Connolly Jenni Johnson Arren Ocampo Sydney Local Health District Northern Sydney Local Health District Sydney Children's Hospitals Network

Person-centred rehabilitation can deliver profound benefits – better functional outcomes, improved quality of life and less need for ongoing care. To help you create person-centred rehabilitation plans for your patients and clients, our Rehabilitation and Brain Injury Rehabilitation Networks have created this practical toolkit: https://bit.ly/4jB8gTY #Rehabilitation #Personalisation | Louise Sellars Arren Ocampo Jenni Johnson Siobhan Wong Maysaa Daher Daniel Treacy Cassandra Carswell Professor Steven Faux AM Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand

Bringing diverse groups of people together to have their say on urgent care is something we're really proud of. Last year we ran 60 focus groups, involving 270+ community members and healthcare professionals, to understand how to improve equitable accesses to urgent care services. Our discussions focused on people who can face barriers accessing healthcare, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people; older people; migrants and refugees; those living with a disability; and more. Outcomes from these sessions will inform future planning for urgent care services. Learn more about how the community helps us drive healthcare innovation in A Focus on ACI: https://bit.ly/4h1ECWx #ConsumerEngagement | Lara Leibbrandt Adam Corcoran Laura Griffin

Congratulations to everyone recognised in this year's Australia Day Honours, particularly those who've been celebrated for their contribution to the health system. Several members of our ACI networks were deserving recipients. View the full NSW Health list here: https://lnkd.in/g4VTpFK4 #Congratulations | Margaret Fry AM RN NP PhD Paul Glare Julian Trollor Jill Ludford Kim Olesen Sharon Smith