SEAMLESS: Transforming Community Health Continuous Pressure Monitoring Workshop September 2024

The SEAMLESS: Transforming Community Health Continuous Pressure Monitoring research group held a two day-workshop which brought together Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) members, commercial partners, private homecare providers, and academics for the opportunity to influence the development and design of a new ‘Intelligent Sensing Device’ that uses pressure monitoring technology to support the self-management of posture, mobility, and pressure ulcer risk in the community.

The team would like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who joined us for this event! Patients and public are at the heart of this project and your contribution provided very valuable insights that will help us to create a fit for purpose technology for community use.

The SEAMLESS: Transforming Community Health Continuous Pressure Monitoring Workshop took place at the Double Tree by Hilton Cadbury House Hotel on the 16th and 17th September 2024.

During the workshop we used an approach called Appreciative Inquiry to look at some key topics around pressure monitoring technology. This included:

Discovery – what is already working with pressure monitoring technology?

Dream – in an ideal world what could pressure monitoring technology be capable of and how would it work in community care settings?

Design – how could we make our ideas come to life within a pressure monitoring system?

Delivery – what are the priorities for modifying the design or changing the way we use pressure monitoring systems in  community care settings?

Next Steps

We have shared the short-, medium- and long-term proposals with our industry partner to establish the feasibility of bringing these to a new version of the technology. Once the new technology has been developed, we will lead a future clinical trial exploring the human factors involved in implementing the technology in community care settings (March 2025-Feb 2026). We will be publishing our findings which you will be able to find here.

Professor Pete Worsley, Professor of Assistive Technology and Tissue Health and Project Investigator said,

“Our project relies on the views and priorities from a range of individuals, including patients, carers, health and social care professions and providers, industry and policy makers. We were delighted that there was so much interest in helping us develop the continuous pressure monitoring technology, and really appreciated everyone’s thoughts and ideas for innovating the technology. This was critical to co-produce a new version of the technology and we are excited to evaluate these ideas during the clinical trial in 2025”

Agenda

To view the event programme please click here

This is what our Chair of Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement, Professor Stephen Duckworth (OBE) said,

“SEAMLESS has been a truly inspiring event, bringing together a passionate community dedicated to improving health outcomes. The collaboration and insights shared here have been invaluable, and I’m excited by the progress we’re making towards practical, patient-centred solutions. My thanks to everyone involved for their contributions and energy – together, we’re shaping the future of community health.”

Our Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) members said:

“Oh thank you so much what an amazing!!! workshop. The energy was infectious… [the] facilitation was something else, I have come away really in awe by it. The PPIE group are so varied and I met some I haven’t met before, it really has made me feel more confident overall, I thought the variation of participation in the workshop was really great, all we needed was the health secretary in the room to say a further yes…”

“Thank you so much for inviting me and putting the event together. I was gutted to leave on the Monday afternoon! You did a great job at getting everyone together. Location was stunning, my first time to west of England. It was so well facilitated with plenty of breaks and soft tools to aid discussion. Your team put everyone at ease, listening and valuing people throughout. I left with a greater understanding of my role within team. I learnt so much about all kinds of topics and skills that are absolutely transferable”.

“I thought the workshop went very well and raised a number of helpful and important issues. I hope the project team found it as well done as I did. You must have put in a lot of time and effort to ensure everything went off seamlessly; well done!”

“…may I say what a wonderful conference it was…so much interaction and so much freedom to speak. The atmosphere was the best and I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I thank you for this.”

Equality Diversity and Inclusion

Please find the equality impact assessment (EIA) for this event here. The EIA is designed to help organisations ensure that their policies, practices, events and decision-making processes are fair and do not present barriers to participation. It supports the commitment of Research Councils to promote equality and participation in all their activities.