Innovation Pilot announced with Northern Care Alliance NHS FT

Melo will be piloted across 2 wards at Salford Royal in 2023

We are delighted to announce that we have secured a 12 month innovation project at Salford Royal Hospital - part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS FT - to launch and evaluate Melo across a number of neuro-rehab wards in 2023.

Sponsored by Dr Alistair Teager (Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist) and Natalie Garrett (Head of Innovation), the team was successful in securing initial project funding as part of the 2022/23 Salford Innovation & Improvement Fund - with funding going towards a clinical research post at the hospital, a Discovery phase of co-creation workshops, before user testing and deployment onto the wards, followed by a full academic evaluation of clinical outcomes and adoption.

“We are excited to be working with Decently to share our specialist insight, to help ensure Melo is built in the right way & ultimately that it helps clinicians make better decisions for our patients.”

Dr. Alistair Teager - Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist

Image from a recent Discovery workshop with staff

For Decently, this represents a significant milestone in the development of Melo providing our first NHS clinical trial site, access to clinicians and subject matter experts, and importantly an opportunity to test, refine and improve the end product on the ground.

This work will also be supported by the regional AHSN team:

“The Salford pilot will benefit directly from the expertise and support of the team at Health Innovation Manchester with Decently having been recently accepted onto the GM Research & Innovation Health Accelerator Programme. This will help shape the evaluation approach for Salford, together with building the overall Melo proposition for wider spread & adoption"

James Burch - Decently cofounder and Project Lead

We will share more details about how the pilot is progressing throughout the coming months - watch this space!