NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation

We're taking a break over the festive season. We'll be back online for an exciting new year from Monday 6 January 2025. Wishing you and your family a safe and joyful holiday season!

A focus on ACI celebrates the progress we have made in 2024 with our staff and partners, as we bring clinicians, consumers and system leaders together to design and implement innovations in healthcare. Throughout 2024, we've continued to be agile and focus on sustainable healthcare solutions that use new technologies and ways of working to improve experiences for patients and health staff. Thank you for continuing on this journey with us, as we progress clinical innovations that deliver better, fairer, sustainable healthcare. 📽️ Learn more in this message from our Chief Executive Jean-Frederic Levesque and in A Focus on ACI: https://bit.ly/49qDxVj #Collaboration #ThankYou | Ellen Rawstron Karen Perini Kristen Ella Melissa Tinsley Rebecca Kenyon Stephanie Mulligan Jenni Johnson Glenn Sisson Kate Lloyd Richard Cheney Linda Soars Lea Kirkwood Florent G. Tara Dimopoulos-Bick Donna Parkes Aaron Hall Tricia Cummins Mark Williams Nathan Wickline Melissa Freeman Alessandra Mediati

To celebrate the festive season, the ACI has come together to support others in need. 🎁 Staff have donated new toys, socks, personal hygiene products and food for the Wayside Chapel and The Salvation Army Australia Christmas Appeal. The donations are being collected around a barbecue installation in our office (pictured). Many different cultures gather round the barbecue at this time of year, so it's a fitting way to celebrate and support our community. A huge thank you to Zoe Puechberty, our Palliative Care and End of Life Project Officer, and our IDEA team for driving this fun and rewarding initiative. Season's greetings to everyone! 🎉 #Giving #SeasonsGreetings | Donna Parkes Jean-Frederic Levesque Ellen Rawstron Melissa Tinsley Kristen Ella

Looking for ways to make your service more sustainable? Explore the latest collection on the Innovation Exchange, highlighting projects about practising sustainable healthcare. You'll find inspiration and ideas for reducing carbon emissions and healthcare-related waste, while saving money. You may even find a solution to an existing problem in your service. Check out the collection here👉 https://bit.ly/3RjwMNc #Sustainability #Innovation | South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) Hunter New England Local Health District Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) South Western Sydney Local Health District Western NSW Local Health District Madelaine Cherrington (she/her) Erynn Johnson Julia McGrath

Dr Trevor Chan has enjoyed a remarkable career and was recently recognised by South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) for 30 years of dedication to NSW Health. 👏 As an expert emergency department doctor and specialist, Trevor has also been the Clinical Director of our Emergency Care Institute since November 2020. "It’s amazing how quickly 30 years goes by. It's helped by doing work that is enjoyable, challenging and constantly teaches you something new," reflects Trevor. "During my time in NSW Health, this has been through the people I’ve met, whether they be patients or carers, doctors, nurses, allied health staff, administrative support, project officers, researchers, managers or executives. "It’s the people that will always be the heart and soul of any organisation.” Trevor's commitment to public health and driving clinical innovation is reflected in the projects he's championed, such as the emergency care assessment and treatment (ECAT) program, which are transforming how emergency care is delivered in NSW. Congratulations Trevor! 🎉 #Congratulations #EmergencyDepartment | Kylie Smith Amy Donehue Hatem Alkhouri

What an insightful and immersive day at our annual Spinal Cord Injury Conference, held in partnership with Royal North Shore Hospital! ✨ Attendees explored the many facets of spinal cord injury (SCI). From the moment of injury, through the acute, rehabilitation and community reintegration phases, and beyond. Thank you to the 45+ speakers who enriched the conference with their expertise and personal experiences. Particularly Daniel Holt (pictured) from Spinal Cord Injuries Australia, who helped shift perceptions around interacting with people living with SCI by sharing his powerful lived experience. Visit our website to join the State Spinal Cord Injury Service and explore SCI resources: https://bit.ly/3XVFpPW #SpinalCordInjury #LivedExperience | Komal Adarkar John Petrozzi Arren Ocampo Jenni Johnson

A thought-provoking panel discussion has explored the reality of living with, and treating, chronic pain after a brain injury or spinal cord injury. 💡 At the John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research Annual Forum, panelist Dr Regina Schultz, Senior Clinical Psychologist at Royal North Shore Hospital, explained how common chronic pain is after a severe injury. But early intervention, such as the evidence-based Be Pain Smart treatment program, can be a game changer. Naomi Deck shared her personal experience of traumatic brain injury and living with chronic pain for two decades. She says the Be Pain Smart clinic is reducing the impact of pain in her life, and improving her day-to-day health and wellbeing. This unique program was developed by the ACI and funded by icare NSW. Clinicians can: ✅ Use the resources here: https://bit.ly/3DmhVtN ✅ Refer patients to the clinic here: https://lnkd.in/gwEwyXJ2 📸 Pictured: Regina Schultz, Jenni Johnson, Naomi Deck, Dr Valerie Malka MD FRACS MIPH MA and Emma Curtin. #ChronicPain #BrainInjury #Rehabilitation | Sue Rogers Kolling Institute Northern Sydney Local Health District Arren Ocampo

Injury and illness can affect a person’s sexual wellbeing and intimate relationships. Conversations can be routinely included into everyday healthcare practices. This new training module on My Health Learning is designed for all NSW Health clinicians. You'll learn why these conversations are important and how to have open, respectful and informative discussions with your patients. Thank you to clinicians from our Rehabilitation and Brain Injury Networks who helped develop the course and feature in some of the videos. Complete the training on My Health Learning (search code: 551862851): https://lnkd.in/g-TQQ83z #IDPwD #IDPwD2024 #Disability #Rehab #Rehabilitation | Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) Louise Sellars Arren Ocampo Jenni Johnson Cassandra Carswell Daniel Treacy Sandra Lever

Congratulations to the 2024 Rural Innovation Awards winners! These local project teams are paving the way with creative and sustainable health innovations that could be adopted across NSW: 🏆 Transforming Cancer Care with AI and Automation, Mid North Coast Local Health District 🏆New Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Model providing equity, Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) 🏆Connecting Critical Care – expertise at the bedside, Northern NSW Local Health District 🏆School-based OT Program in Kindergarten Classrooms, Far West Local Health District (pictured) 🏆Helping Our Youth See Through the Haze, Southern NSW Local Health District 🏆Diabetes Alliance Program Plus, Hunter New England Local Health District (pictured) 🏆Public Health Analytics Dashboard, Western NSW Local Health District (pictured) 🏆Shoalhaven District Memorial Hospital Day Only Hip and Knee Joint Replacement Project, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District (ISLHD) Each year, we present the ACI Rural Innovation Award in collaboration with NSW's eight rural local health districts as part of their annual award ceremonies. #RuralHealth | Shellie Burgess Jean-Frederic Levesque Ellen Rawstron Joseph Fuller Raeline Phillips Adrian Walsh Charmaine Lowrie

Come along to the first in a series of free online webinars on Aboriginal health and wellbeing. NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia) is joining us to yarn about healthy aging and their work supporting Aboriginal people with dementia. This webinar is hosted by our Aboriginal Chronic Conditions and Aged Care Networks, and Health Education and Training Institute (HETI). 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀: 📅 Date: Wednesday 4 December 🕓 Time: 2-3:30pm (AEDT) 💻 Register here: https://bit.ly/4hYcDb0 #AboriginalHealth #Dementia #HealthyAging | David Follent Kristen Ella Melissa Cawley Catherine Kostovski Glen Pang Brenda Holt Mary Jackson