SA Health staff challenged to innovate the future of Allied Health Advanced Clinical Practice roles

To cul­ti­vate a cul­ture of inno­va­tion across the health sys­tem, we part­nered with the SA Health Allied and Sci­en­tif­ic Health Office (ASHO) to sup­port the design and deliv­ery of a state-wide Inno­va­tion Challenge.

Run­ning from August 2023 to May 2024, the chal­lenge encour­aged crit­i­cal and cre­ative think­ing, fos­tered ideation, sup­port­ed cross sys­tem col­lab­o­ra­tion, and embed­ded inno­va­tion prac­tice into project design and delivery.

With 46 sub­mis­sions from right across the sys­tem, the chal­lenge suc­cess­ful­ly raised aware­ness of the SA Health Allied Health Advanced Clin­i­cal Prac­tice Frame­work and iden­ti­fied oppor­tu­ni­ties to inter­ro­gate poten­tial Allied Health Advanced Clin­i­cal Prac­tice roles in SA Health ser­vices. The chal­lenge helped sup­port ASHO adopt an inno­va­tion-based method­ol­o­gy to unearth inno­v­a­tive solu­tions that will inform future ini­tia­tives whilst over­all, help­ing to sup­port a cul­ture of innovation.

An ASHO eval­u­a­tion revealed that 82% of par­tic­i­pants gained an increased aware­ness of the Allied Health Advanced Clin­i­cal Prac­tice Statewide Frame­work, and 91% of par­tic­i­pants expressed inter­est in future initiatives.

To sup­port chal­lenge win­ners, we pro­vid­ed pitch train­ing for their pre­sen­ta­tions at the ASHO sym­po­sium on May 23, 2024.

This part­ner­ship high­light­ed the impact col­lab­o­ra­tion has when deliv­er­ing excel­lence in the field of inno­va­tion, high­light­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for improved care.

Read on for more infor­ma­tion about Inno­va­tion at the CEIH.