Experts from the West of Scotland Innovation Hub have been sharing their learnings from successful emergency medicine projects with visitors from Singapore, as part of a knowledge exchange event.
A group of medical professionals from SingHealth were in Glasgow this week, visiting the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde-hosted WoS Innovation Hub team at their Queen Elizabeth University Hospital HQ.
Guests heard from experts working across ground-breaking innovation projects, taking place in Glasgow and the West of Scotland, including; the use of AI in emergency medicine, the DYNAMIC COPD project, which allows patients to receive care and be monitored from home and the OPERA heart failure project, which has identified several patient benefits, including the potential to reduce waiting times for appointments from 12 months to 12 weeks.
Malcolm Gordon, NHSGGC Emergency Medicine Consultant, has had links with the SingHealth team for a number of years and was delighted to welcome them along with his colleagues.
He said: “This visit has been valuable for all involved, we have been able to share our experiences and learnings from our roles within emergency medicine and gain a new perspective from our colleagues from another part of the world.
“It was also fascinating to hear from my NHSGGC colleagues who are working on exciting West of Scotland Innovation projects, aiming to revolutionise the way care is delivered while improving the patient experience.”
Hosted by NHSGGC, the WoS Innovation Hub works in partnership with the six NHS Boards and 14 Health and Social Care Partnerships across the region to help design, develop and deliver health and social care improvement.
Professor David Lowe, Emergency Medicine Clinical lead for the WoS Innovation Hub, said: “We were delighted to be able to share our learnings and highlight the ongoing emergency medicine work happening across research and innovation here in Glasgow and the West of Scotland.
“Projects we discussed are all great examples of how NHS collaboration with academic and industry partners can impact on patients in a positive way. This is a hugely exciting time for the Hub and we will look to build on the momentum of these exemplar projects to become country’s leading driver of innovation within the NHS.”
Clinical Professor Goh Siang Hiong, from SingHealth, said: “We are pleased to be back here in Glasgow, because some of us have quite long ties with this city and a number of us know Malcolm Gordon from our younger training days, where he helped us to develop emergency medicine in Singapore.
“This visit is about learning about best practices in research and innovation and education happening here at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and about looking to build on our ties and further cement our bridges.
“We have seen a lot of areas where we could potentially collaborate and also similarities in the development of emergency medicine, even though we are on opposite sides of the globe, which reinforces that we are on the right trajectory.”
