To mark one year of the KitNewCare project, some of the CSH team travelled to Madrid to attend the KitNewCare General Assembly and Project meeting.
Attending from CSH were Frances (Work Package 3 lead), Inge (Work Package 5 Lead), Hattie (Work Package 3 Project Manager), Aycan (Work Package 5 Project Manager), Lucy (Clinical Delivery Lead) and Marta (CSH Fellow).
On day one of the conference, we had the chance to hear updates from all of the work packages and present our own progress. There was a specific focus on the facilitators and barriers to progress identified by each work package.
Frances was a panellist for a panel event giving perspectives on how KitNewCare could influence EU policy. There were interesting discussions on how we can support prevention programmes across the EU and industry insights into how we can encourage the development of more sustainable products.
Inge and Aycan held a workshop in the afternoon focused on their benchmarking tool. In the workshop, alongside clinical sites and EKPF we explored the options for patient, staff and caregiver surveys to feed into the benchmarking tool. It was a chance to hear different experiences and perspectives on how social impacts could be analysed and represented on the benchmarking dashboard.
In the evening, we visited Mercado San Miguel, a market famous for its delicious fresh food. This was a chance to informally catch up with other project partners and enjoy the city.
On the second day of the trip, EKPF organised a workshop on patient involvement and engagement. Involving patients is a key part of KitNewCare’s ethos so it was interesting to hear from the project partners how they plan to involve patients at different stages of the project. Work package 3 held a session with the clinical site teams. We played a game of ‘worst case scenario’ where we imagined we wanted the project to fail and how the sites would do this! All is not lost as we used this activity to reflect on the blockers that we could identify with and might already be happening accidentally. This allowed for a fruitful thought exercise into how failure can be avoided.
The enthusiasm, passion, and expertise of the project partners at the meeting were inspiring, and we are looking forward to another year of collaboration, action, innovation, and driving sustainable change.
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