Bitesized insight: medicines management Carol Roberts, Chief Executive at PrescQIPP, explains how her organisation worked with Eastern AHSN to run a series of innovator-matching events to support better use of medicines in the East of England he mission of PrescQIPP is to help NHS organisations improve medicines-related care. We are a community interest company funded by clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), commissioning support units and health boards. We partnered with Eastern AHSN to host two events to showcase innovations with First, we set a challenge question for the pitches: how do we improve patient outcomes through medicines optimisation, compliance and adherence? The Eastern through their innovation review panel and invited them to pitch their solutions to us to explain how they could support healthcare services to answer the challenge. valuable was MySpira are the most common reason for urgent admissions to hospital in children and young people in England, but 75% We have worked alongside Eastern AHSN for years and knew it had an incredible network that could help us with our mission of asthma admissions are thought to be preventable1. Preventable admissions are generally attributable to train young patients in the clinic. MySpira teaches six to 13-year-olds how to correctly use their inhaler. Using a mobile phone, the child completes eight fun modules on the app, helping them better understand their disease and how to manage it. Research has shown that the MySpira when measuring the users recall of critical asthma and inhaler information2. Since the matching event, 2,400 licences for the MySpira app have been procured Asthma UK. (2014). Time to take action on asthma. Available: https://www.asthma.org. uk/globalassets/campaigns/compare-yourcare-2014.pdf. Last accessed 10/05/21. 1 2 Al-Naimi, S., Brady, P., Andrews, T. Augmented Reality Mobile Delivery Platform for the Enhancement of Asthma Care Education for Children. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM). 15 (7). References Share this article Integrated Care System, the Southend CCG, Basildon CCG, Brentwood CCG and Castle Point CCG. Our collaboration with MySpira is just one example of Eastern AHSN introducing new and valuable innovator connections to us. Following the success of the two matching events in October 2020, we ran another in promising opportunities for us to support innovations at Watch a demo of MySpira How we can help Find out how we help providers get faster access to the latest innovations and technologies to deliver excellent patient care on our website