HSE Spark Innovation Programme

🎉 The Spark Programme wishes you all a Happy New Year 🎉 📆 Here are some key dates at HSE Spark for the month of January 📆 If you would like a representative of HSE Spark at your healthcare event or if you would like us to host a meeting, event or information session in your setting, please email us at spark@hse.ie National Doctors Training & Planning (NDTP) National Health & Social Care Professions Office (NHSCPO) Health Service Executive Irish Hospital Consultants Association Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists Podiatry Ireland #HealthInnovation #Ireland

And that's a rap for 2024....🎇🎇🎇 As 2024 comes to a close, we at the HSE Spark Innovation Programme are filled with pride and gratitude for a year brimming with creativity, collaboration, and progress. Here's a look back at a small number of the milestones that defined our journey this year: 🌟 Initiative Launches & Growth In 2024 Spark Impact was launched, while Spark Seed, Spark Fusion, Spark Ignite and Spark Connect initiatives continued to go from strength to strength. Designed to empower healthcare innovators at every stage of their journey, each of these initiatives has created new opportunities for innovation to flourish. 🤝 Collaborations & Networking: Building bridges across the healthcare innovation community, #HSESpark hosted dynamic networking meetings, including the Design Symposium during Public Sector Transformation week 2024 strengthened ties with key stakeholders. These events fostered invaluable connections, sparking ideas that will shape the future of healthcare. 💡 Welcoming New Fellows: This year, we warmly welcomed our new Innovation fellows into the Spark family, bringing fresh ideas and energy to the programme. At the same time, we bid farewell to our departing Innovation fellows Bobby Tang & Emily Wallace , who are moving on to exciting opportunities, taking the spirit of innovation to new horizons. 🚗Spark on the Road: The Spark team has been up and down the country visiting every Regional Health Area to meet with teams, run design thinking workshops, speak at conferences and grand rounds as well as hosting webinars to speak about how Spark can support healthcare innovators on the ground. 🏆 Celebrating & Supporting Innovators: We showcased incredible talent through our Innovators of the Month, supported aspiring healthcare innovators through bursaries, while also showcasing the work of our frontline healthcare innovators in our annual report, our newsletter and our events. Our "Design Thinking" online workshops for healthcare workers have been over subscribed each time building capacity for human centered design up and down the country. 🌍 Spark Summit 2024: A cornerstone event of the year, the #SparkSummit2024 brought together thought leaders, innovators, and change-makers, providing a platform to share ideas, successes, and visions for the future of healthcare. To everyone who has been part of this journey—our innovators, fellows, designers, collaborators, partners, and supporters—thank you. Your dedication drives our mission to make Ireland’s healthcare system more innovative, efficient, and patient-centered. As we look forward to 2025, we remain committed to nurturing innovation and collaboration within the healthcare community. Here’s to another year of progress and impact! #HSESpark #HealthcareInnovation #Collaboration #DesignThinking Jared Gormly Caitriona Heffernan Michelle Howard Dermot Burke Claire McElvanna Muthu Thangaramanujam Eve Stanley Alanna Allen Siobhan Power

🎄✨ Wishing You a Sparkling Christmas!✨🎄 The HSE Spark Innovation Programme team would like to extend our warmest wishes to everyone this festive season. A heartfelt thank you to our amazing frontline healthcare workers, designers and everyone who contributes to creating a thriving innovation ecosystem. Your dedication, creativity, and passion inspire us every day to push boundaries and create better solutions for our health services. 2024 has been an incredible year of collaboration and progress, and it’s all thanks to you. Let’s keep the momentum going into 2025! Nollaig Shona agus Athbhliain Faoi Mhaise Daoibh! 🌟 #HSESpark #Innovation #humancentreddesign #HappyChristmas Jared Gormly Caitriona Heffernan Michelle Howard Dermot Burke Catherine Marsh Eve Stanley Alanna Allen Muthu Thangaramanujam Claire McElvanna Siobhan Power Better Public Services National Doctors Training & Planning (NDTP) National Health & Social Care Professions Office (NHSCPO) Dr. Maureen A Flynn

🌟 A hopeful post about the value of design in healthcare.... Over the past few months, the area formerly known as CHO 8, which includes the Midlands and North East community health areas, has been leading an inspiring project in collaboration with HSE Spark Innovation Programme and Big Motive to redesign children’s services in the area. At the heart of this initiative is human-centered design—a process driven by deep engagement with parents and families, walking in their shoes to truly understand their needs. This approach has challenged old ways of thinking, fostered collaboration, and shifted mindsets across the board. What started as a journey through frustration, complexity, and uncertainty has transformed into one of hope, innovation, and meaningful change. Voices from every corner—over 370 parents, clinicians, senior leadership, administrative staff, project management, and digital teams—have been heard and valued, creating a shared vision for the future. While there is still much to do, we are excited about the brighter future we are building for children’s services—one that puts the needs of children and their families at its core. 🎉 Huge congratulations to everyone involved—your dedication, resilience, and creativity are nothing short of inspiring. Together, we’re making a lasting difference. Below is a little taster of just some of the collaborative work going on in the project so far ⬇️ #Innovation #HumanCenteredDesign #ChildrenServices #Collaboration #HopeForTheFuture #HSE Michelle Howard Carole Broadbank, Claire McElvanna Rebecca Walsh Jared Gormly Caitriona Heffernan National Doctors Training & Planning (NDTP) National Health & Social Care Professions Office (NHSCPO) Dr. Maureen A Flynn HSE Dublin and Midlands. Health Service Executive Bernard Gloster HSE Research and Development Better Public Services sharon kennelly HSE National QPS Directorate

🤔 Are you a #NCHD, #HSCP, #Nurse, #Midwife or #Pharmacist? Thinking of applying for one of our Innovation Fellowships? ..... Listen to Catherine Marsh one of our current National Innovation Fellows at the HSE Spark Innovation Programme to learn about her experience in the programme. 📄 Want to find out more? Click here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eYamKJuD ⏰ Closing Date: Friday, 17th January at 5pm 🔗 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/epgbXJG4 Don’t miss your chance to join this groundbreaking programme and spark the future of healthcare innovation! #HSESparkInnovation #HealthcareInnovation #Fellowship2025 #Nursing #Pharmacy #HSCP #NCHD Caitriona Heffernan Jared Gormly Catherine Marsh Michelle Howard Dermot Burke Emily Wallace Muthu Thangaramanujam Eve Stanley Alanna Allen Claire McElvanna Siobhan Power National Doctors Training & Planning (NDTP) National Health & Social Care Professions Office (NHSCPO) Dr. Maureen A Flynn Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland Better Public Services

✨ Half way there.... Checking in with our HSE Spark Innovation Programme Bursary winners who have just completed their first semester of their Professional Service Design Diploma in the National College of Art & Design. These passionate frontline healthcare workers are diving deep into service design and human-centred design principles, building their capacity to create better, more inclusive services that truly place patients and service users at the centre of care. At #HSESpark, we are committed to empowering Frontline healthcare staff to innovate and reimagine healthcare services, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of those we serve. It's inspiring to witness this group of changemakers upskilling to make a meaningful difference and bring these valuable skills back to their teams. Keep up the amazing work – we can’t wait to see the impact you’ll continue to make! 💪 #HSESpark #HealthcareInnovation #HumanCentredDesign #lifelonglearning #ServiceDesign #BetterHealthcare Jared Gormly Caitriona Heffernan Dermot Burke Michelle Howard Emily Wallace Catherine Marsh Eve Stanley Alanna Allen Muthu Thangaramanujam Siobhan Power Claire McElvanna Laura Blowick, PhD Claire McRory Anna Marie Kiernan Stephen O' Rourke Caoimhe Mc Mahon Brian Gough Better Public Services Health Service Executive Trevor Vaugh

🚀 Fellowship Applications Now Open🚀 We’re excited to announce that applications are now open for the HSE Spark Innovation Programme Fellowships 2025. This year, we’re looking for more passionate individuals to drive innovation and improvement across healthcare. ✨ Fellowship Applications are open for: - Nursing/Midwifery - Non-consultant Hospital Doctors (NCHD) - Health & Social Care Professionals (HSCP) - Pharmacists - NEW for 2025 ⏰ Closing Date: Friday, 17th January at 5pm 🔗 Apply here: [https://lnkd.in/epgbXJG4] 📄 For more information:(https://lnkd.in/eYamKJuD) 🎥 Meet the Fellow– Watch our video below to hear firsthand about the fellowship experience! Don’t miss your chance to join this groundbreaking programme and spark the future of healthcare innovation! #HSESparkInnovation #HealthcareInnovation #Fellowship2025 #Nursing #Pharmacy #HSCP #NCHD Jared Gormly Caitriona Heffernan Dermot Burke Michelle Howard Catherine Marsh Emily Wallace Muthu Thangaramanujam Claire McElvanna Eve Stanley Alanna Allen Siobhan Power National Doctors Training & Planning (NDTP) National Health & Social Care Professions Office (NHSCPO) Dr. Maureen A Flynn Better Public Services Health Service Executive Rachel Kenna Fiona Steed Dr Tanya Mulcahy PhD Irish Association Advanced Nurse Midwife Practitioners

'It's all about patient care, and using technology to improve our service.' In this clip from RTE Radio 1 Drivetime, Catherine Marsh describes how patients are supported from initial contact to post-examination. This project rolled out at the Rotunda Hospital was honoured at the Irish Healthcare Centre Awards earlier this month for improving the service using forensic photography. The project is proudly supported by HSE Spark. You can listen to the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/e7uXKqVg #Healthtech #ForensicPhotography #Healthcare

The HSE Spark Innovation Programme attended yesterday's National Simulation Office Networking and Collaboration Event which brought together inspiring ideas and updates on the National Framework for Simulation. We heard about impactful simulation projects form this year and we are looking froward to whats to come in 2025.

Exciting times for the HSE Spark Innovation Programme! ✨ The HSE Spark Innovation Programme had the pleasure of presenting at Grand Rounds in Galway University Hospitals, and it was an inspiring day with great discussions about the future of healthcare innovation. It was fantastic to be in the West of Ireland, meeting frontline healthcare staff, and driving innovation across the region. We were able to speak about the various SPARK initiatives, including SPARK Seed and SPARK Impact, and how they’re transforming patient care and healthcare delivery. As we look ahead to 2025, we’re incredibly excited about the innovations coming down the line, and we're grateful to have met with successful applicants and innovators from our initiatives in 2024. Jared Gormly Caitriona Heffernan Dermot Burke Michelle Howard Catherine Marsh Emily Wallace Muthu Thangaramanujam Eve Stanley Alanna Allen Siobhan Power Claire McElvanna Galway University Hospitals Saolta University Health Care Group National Doctors Training & Planning (NDTP) (NDTP) National Health & Social Care Professions Office (NHSCPO) (NHSCPO) Dr. Maureen A Flynn