Building the evidence for safe obstetric emergency care during the pandemic
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic the Thiscovery team and colleagues at THIS Institute worked together - remotely and at speed - to support maternity professionals in developing new safety procedures. In doing so we also created a new way of working online to involve large numbers of people to design changes or improvements to the way healthcare is delivered.
Members
Over 1200 members including NHS clinicians, digital and implementation leads, researchers, policy makers, the Health Innovation Networks and AVT developers.
What can members do?
Members can ask questions, share experiences and resources, find peers working on the same AVT challenges, and join events and programmes. THIS Institute can bring a national network together in one place, run open discussions alongside smaller invited groups, gather views through polls and surveys, and spot emergency themes to feed into AVT evaluation.
Impact
In its first year AVID has grown into a go-to space for AVT knowledge and connection, hosting national programme recruitment, published evidence, product pilots and event invitations. Learning from the community is expected to feed into a wider programme of AVT evaluation.
