Our Awards

Health Innovation South East Scotland

This Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition is funded by The Can Do Fund and hosted by Health Innovation South East Scotland Innovation. HISES is the East Region Test Bed in NHS Scotland. The aim was to develop a prototype solution to increase volunteering in the community to support delayed discharges.

In 2022, we were selected as one of two companies chosen to develop a product that would add benefit to the discharge process and help to alleviate the delayed discharge problems that the NHS are facing using volunteers to assist with this issue.

Our solution is The Wellbeing Hub: a volunteer-powered community care web solution. It enables volunteer managers to safely direct support and care to discharged patients. The Hub intends to reduce delayed discharge and readmissions by increasing people’s ability to self-manage or manage with volunteer support.

The Hub integrates technologies in an innovative way, with safe data sharing that facilitates the partnering of volunteers and volunteer-led services. This allows patients to build a trusted and sustainable network of support.

iNetwork Innovation Awards Showcase

The iNetwork Awards celebrate and share innovation across the local public sector and its partner organisations.

In 2021 we won two awards:

• The COVID-19 Response Recognition Award, a brand new category, which recognises the response and recovery to the unprecedented challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic
• The Partner Excellence Award, which celebrates innovation, collaboration, efficiency and going the extra mile in partnership working

Both awards were won alongside Halton and St Helens Voluntary and Community Action (HSHVCA) for our combined work on their Volunteer Portal. The programme had a significant impact on supporting local residents through the pandemic. Over 32,000 people were supported by volunteers who registered on the portal to support others. The portal and the app, displayed how volunteers and community tasks can be managed more efficiently through a collaborative, digital approach.

TechForce 19

In August 2020, NHSx (in partnership with NHS England and NHS Improvement and the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government) asked the Health Innovation Network (HIN) to undertake an evaluation to better understand digitally supported micro-volunteering models operating in the field of health and social care. This report presents learning from the evaluation and is aimed at an audience of commissioners and policymakers to inform their strategies around micro-volunteeringThe iNetwork Awards celebrate and share innovation across the local public sector and its partner organisations.

TeamKinetic was selected to be one of the products evaluated as part of their work after being commissioned through Techforce 19 in direct response to the COVID crisis.

TeamKinetic is proud to be part of this work and we have seen micro-volunteering as one strand in a wide range of potential interventions that broaden accessibility and inclusion in volunteering and the voluntary sector whilst providing a lower-cost solution to community-based social care. Local digital solutions like ours allow local stakeholders to take direct ownership and control, empowering communities to become more resilient and with much greater levels of trust and agency.