Nurses Technology Innovation Competition

Do you have a concept for a technological innovation that could improve patient safety or experience, and free up your time to care? Have you ever thought about pitching your ideas to Software Developers, Business partners, and Chief Nursing Information Officers from across the globe?

If so, then we have the competition for you:

Nursing Times presents the Nurses Technology Innovation Competition 2023 at the Nursing Times Digital Forum. We are looking for nurses and midwifes (individuals or small teams) with bold ideas on how to improve the patient journey or staff experience with technology.

Nurses are well-placed to recognise the practical challenges that exist in wards, clinics, and a diverse range of community settings. Care leaders often have multiple ideas on how to improve services, systems and processes and deliver better care.

Within this competition, we welcome applications from registered nurses and midwifes who work in all sectors of healthcare whether its NHS (or other National Health Services), GP practices, private, 3rd/voluntary, social care, prisons, education and others, to share their solutions with a panel of industry and digital experts.  


Winners’ rewards:

  • Florence Nightingale Foundation mentorship: Florence Nightingale Foundation are pleased to offer mentorship to the Nursing Times Digital Technology Innovation Competition winners. This will be provided by FNF Digital Scholar Alumni who are talented and transformational senior digital health leaders
  • An invite to the Nursing Times Workforce Summit & Awards on 21st November in Central London, where they will be given an award
  • The opportunity to present their projects to a wider audience at the Workforce Summit Online event on 15th November

Categories

Choose your category

This category is for individuals or teams who have developed small scale digital projects, pilots or minimum viable products that are ready to take the next steps in its development to becoming a larger scale or better evidenced project.
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Judges will look for innovation that:

  • Uses technology to improve patient experience and safety 
  • Uses technology to improve processes and free up nurses’ time
  • Have piloted the project in live working environments 
  • Can be adopted by other departments or organisations

These innovations should help:

  • Transform the patient experience and journey 
  • Unlock additional capacity and improve efficiency 
  • Improve staff or student experience 
  • Free up timeJudges will be looking for innovations that have been tested or are at an early implementation stage, with an evidence base to show proof of concept.

This category is for individuals or small teams with new ideas that use established or emerging technologies that could change nursing practice in the future. You can present your concept or idea and explain how you see it developing, including what help you need to make it happen!

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Judges will look for innovation that has the potential to:

  • Use technology to improve patient experience and safety 
  • Use technology to improve processes to better use nurses time
  • Be piloted for proof of concept 
  • Be adopted by other teams, departments or organisations

These innovations should help:

  • Transform the patient experience and journey 
  • Unlock additional capacity and improve efficiency 
  • Improve staff or student nurse experience 
  • Free up time Judges will be looking for innovations that are at an early stage and seeking a test bed to further prove the concept.