CAMHS Improvement Hackathon

Event Overview:

Join us for our exciting ‘Hackathon’ event exploring improvements to Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) across the North West!

This event forms part of our ongoing scoping exercise exploring a North West CAMHS improvement programme.

Hackathons aren’t your usual type of event. This is a fantastic opportunity to share some of the challenges facing CAMHS services with colleagues from across the region, and intensively collaborate to form innovate solutions.

Whether you’re new to Hackathons or you’ve tried one before, we highly recommend you give it a go.

How will the hackathon event work?

• The Pitch - Teams will share their specific CAMHS related problem or issue with the wider CAMHS community via an initial one minute 'pitch'. This should focus on crisis avoidance and crisis support, although other specific pitches will be considered.
• Sprints – Teams then move through a series of fast-paced structured exercise, or ‘sprints’ to develop outlines for potential quality improvement projects.
• Judging Panel - The day will conclude with a presentation of each of the QI proposals, with a brief Q&A session with a judging panel.

The best projects / teams will then form the final part of our CAMHS improvement scoping exercise.

Who is this event aimed at?

The Hackathon is for CAMHS teams from across membership, who have a distinct idea for a one year quality improvement project.

 Each team will be different but may include:

• Commissioners
• Providers
• Young people
• Social care
• Non statutory services

 Teams are also welcome to invite partners involved in their services.

What will attendees learn at this event / workshop?

Attendees will share thoughts, ideas and insights into service needs across the region, and work together to help to shape a possible improvement programme to support members.

Further information:

Please note this is an expression of interest and due to the size of the venue places at the event will be limited and we will confirm your place prior to the event. 

Event Conditions:

1. Events are free to all Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) member organisations. In some cases, places can be paid for by non-members. If you’re interested in attending an AQuA event and are not a member then contact us at AQuA@srft.nhs.uk. If you are unsure whether your organisation is an AQuA member, please click here.
2. Paid places on AQuA events are non-refundable however can be transferred. If you are no longer able to attend and wish to transfer your place, please contact the team on the details above.
3. Final event arrangements are confirmed with the venue up to two weeks before the event. In order to ensure that places are not wasted please let us know at your earliest convenience if you are no longer able to attend. Many of our events operate waiting lists so this will enable us to reallocate your place to someone else on the list.
4. We take photographs and occasionally video/live stream at our events. We use these pictures and video on our website and in other media such as Twitter and news publications. If you do not want to be photographed or filmed please let a member of the AQuA team know at the event.
5. By signing up for an AQuA event, we will add your contact details to our CRM system and let you know about future events, as well as send you our fortnightly e-bulletin. If you do not want to receive information from us, please let us know by sending us an email to AQuA@srft.nhs.uk and we will remove your name from our mailing list.
6. Supporting resources, presentations and other materials from the event will be made available on our website after the event for 30 days.
7. By registering for an AQuA event you consent for us to share your attendance information with your organisation for reporting purposes.
8. If the event is held jointly with one of our partners we will share attendee names, organisations and email addresses.
9. When you register for this event you’ll automatically be agreeing to our terms and conditions and privacy statements.

If you would like further detail on any of the above, please contact AQuA@srft.nhs.uk