Hosted by LEAP, a Digital Health Hub for the South West and Wales
LEAP’s events will focus on four key themes that make up their upcoming research funding call. Objectives include:
- Provide background information about the call and application process
- Introduce the Hub’s research themes with overviews from key problem owners
- Collaboratively develop new project ideas through activities and discussion
- Facilitate connections between professionals from academia, industry and healthcare who share expertise or interest in the themes
- Announce the application process for the Hub’s Fellowship schemes
Health and social care are resource-constrained activities – the NHS and social care workforce operates very close to capacity and is difficult to expand in response to short- or long-term demand. Resources such as staff, facilities, ward space and ambulances all need to be planned in a dynamic, responsive and joined-up manner. Digital health (and care) opportunities include:
- Scheduling and queuing algorithms to help plan/allocate staff time/availability, or the use of resources such as hospital beds and ambulances.
- Research to improve processes and decision-making, including operations research and optimisation.