Award nomination for Design Futures collaborative project with Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

A collaborative project between John Kirkby of Design Futures, speech and language therapist Mark Jayes, and staff and patients at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation has been recognised by Mediplex NHS Innovation Awards 2017.

 

The Mental Capacity Assessment Support Toolkit (MCAST) supports multidisciplinary staff to carry out robust mental capacity assessment and could better support vulnerable patients to communicate their needs.  MCAST has been tested with 21 staff and 17 patients in a number of community and hospital-based settings, including dementia wards, stroke units and intermediate care.

John Kirkby, Creative director of Design Futures at Sheffield Hallam University reported : This was a challenging design project that required a particularly strategic approach. The final design needed to convey all information clearly and in an ordered fashion whilst needing to be visually appealing to promote engagement. This required close engagement with Mark and the research team to ensure all design work included had a clear purpose.

 

 

The MCAST Toolkit was nominated for an award in the “Service Improvement” category for innovations which have potential to improve the quality, efficiency and productivity of services across the NHS.

 

More information on the Mediplex Innovation Awards is available here.