2. @NHSAccelerator
Chaired by: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, National Medical Director, NHS England
Mr Ashish Pradhan, Consultant Subspecialist Urogynaecologist
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Maria Slater, General Manager - CAMHS CSU
Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital
Dr Keith Grimes, General Practitioner & Digital Healthcare Innovator
Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford CCG / Hastings & Rother CCG
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4. Episcissors-60
Mr Ashish Pradhan MRCOG
Consultant Subspecialist Urogynaecologist
Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS
Foundation Trust, United Kingdom
5. EPISCISSORS-60®
first scissors designed to give an accurate mediolateral
episiotomy; patent owned by Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust
www.medinvent.net email:info@medinvent.net
6. Results from UK hospitals that completely
replaced all old episiotomy scissors with
EPISCISSORS-60
• 20% reduction in childbirth anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) at Poole and
Hinchingbrooke Hospitals (Van Roon et al 2015)
• 40-50% reduction at Croydon University Hospital (Ying Yiing 2016)
• 40-50% reduction at Royal Free and Barnet Hospitals
(Kate Mayers 2016, unpublished audit)
7. Why Hinchingbrooke decided to adopt
the EPISCISSORS-60
• Bowel incontinence is a debilitating illness with significant
morbidity and costs to the NHS
• The annual NHS bill for treating and managing incontinent
persons is estimated at £500 million (NICE CG49)
• Women are affected 9 times more than men.
• Childbirth related perineal injuries are the number one cause of
bowel incontinence in women.
• There is no satisfactory cure for bowel incontinence.
• Prevention is better than cure*
8. Why Hinchingbrooke decided to adopt
the EPISCISSORS-60
• A 60 degree episiotomy was recommended as a way to prevent
childbirth anal injuries by the Royal College of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists (RCOG).
• EPISCISSORS-60 were mentioned in that guidance as being a
fixed angle device that takes away the guesswork and human
error in trying to estimate the angle at the time of birth.
• “NO- BRAINER” to prevent avoidable harm.
9. How we overcame barriers to adoption
• Making the case internally for investment
• Which budget to dip into for funds? Capital or operational?
• Hospitals would lose income if injury rate reduced!
• No incentive to reduce injury rate…
• Changing clinical practice
• Introducing the comprehensive SUPPORT training programme led to
‘buy-in’ from the midwifery and medical staff
• Replacement of all episiotomy scissors with the EPISCISSORS-60
10. Benefits seen by the Trust
post-implementation
• 20% reduction in Childbirth anal sphincter injuries within 5
months of introduction
• Corresponding increase in number of episiotomies performed
due to increased confidence among doctors and midwives
• Now it has become the norm
• Has influenced neighbouring trusts like Cambridge to adopt the
EPISCISSORS-60
• Funding remains a huge obstacle
• INNOVATION TARIFF will greatly help
12. Components of an i-THRIVE Model of Care
Single point of access with
multi-agency assessment &
effective signposting
Digital ‘front – end’
Self-help and peer-support
Short, evidence
based interventions
aligned with NICE
Guidance
Schools and primary care in-reach
Outreach to Hard-to-reach groups
Creating a comprehensive
network of community providers:
Youth Wellbeing Directory
Wide variety of choice of modality and
location, provided by health or
alternatives (3rd sector, community
providers)
Longer, evidence based
interventions
Provided by health primarily
Outcomes plus goal based measures
Outcomes plus goal based
measures
AMBiT: Integrated multi-agency
approach with joint accountability for
outcomes
Self-help and peer-support
Safety plans co-produced
between agencies & young people
Emphasis on developing
Personal support network
• Core THRIVE principles
delivered using evidence
based approaches to delivery
that fit local context
• Needs based care (not
severity or diagnosis led)
• Shared decision making at
each point in pathway
• Integration: multiagency
teams that are trained and
located together, with
common processes and
outcome frameworks
• Training clinicians in clarity
about when treatment is
being provided vs. support,
promoting & supporting self
help, shared decision making
• Community of Practice
building on existing funded
work with 10 sites – natural
route for dissemination
Getting
Advice &
Signposting
Getting Help
Getting More
Help
Risk Support
CYP IAPT
CYP IAPT
13. AliveCor
Dr Keith Grimes, General Practitioner & Digital Healthcare Innovator
Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford CCG / Hastings & Rother CCG
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Please read the slide
After reading out slide….As a specialist urogynecologist, I was seeing women with anal sphincter injuries 20 years after their deliveries. These women had bowel incontinence. They had lost control, and had accidents of leakage of stool, which were very embarrassing. If affected all aspects of their life, the foods they ate, their ability to have intimate relationships and socialise.. Some became completely housebound, and developed depression. And we don’t have very successful treatments to deal with fecal incontinence. So I was convinced that prevention is better than cure.
After reading slide contents….We discussed this with our obstetrics team and senior midwives, and it was felt that it would be a no brainer to adopt the EPISCISSORS into clinical practice.
Please don’t read the slide contents…just read this…We had difficulty in making a cogent business case, because since these injuries attract reimbursement via Payment by Results, the hospital would lose income if the injury rate went down. Luckily, we were successful in getting a Regional innovation Fund grant from NHS England that enabled us to buy the scissors and train all the staff in the SUPPORT programme. Introducing the comprehensive SUPPORT training programme led to ‘buy-in’ from the midwifery and medical staff. We replaced all the episiotomy scissors with the EPISCISSORS, as it was felt this would be the only way to ensure 100% compliance.
After reading slide contents… speaking to colleagues across the country, it seems that all maternity units would adopt the scissors if there were funding available.
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THRIVE is the conceptual framework that will help us move to the ‘next’ world where……
In an integrated care model we need to…….
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