EPSRC - NIHR HTC Partnership Award: Promoting Real Independence through Design Expertise (PRIDE)

全球和当地（联合王国）人口正在老龄化，这导致对保健和福利服务的需求增加。慢性和长期疾病也在增加，导致保健和社会护理费用增加，保健干预措施的性质发生了广泛变化。因此，人们越来越希望让人们远离医院，在附近或家中治疗。出于成本、方便和尊严的考虑，有时患者也需要进行自我护理或由护理人员提供的护理。长期以来，护理独立性一直是一些诊断和治疗方案的特点：大多数药物由患者自己服用；糖尿病患者定期监测血糖水平并自行注射。这项工作旨在将这些自我保健的概念扩展到更广泛的健康状况及其相关技术，这些技术目前还没有被期望由患者或他们的护理人员提供。该网络由四个学术中心组成：*剑桥大学剑桥工程设计中心；* CHI+MED，由伦敦大学学院（UCL）牵头；*拉夫堡大学的拉夫堡设计学院和*皇家艺术学院的海伦·哈姆林设计中心以及三家医疗保健技术合作社(htc)*尊严设备，（D4D）谢菲尔德教学医院NHS基金会信托；* MindTech HTC，诺丁汉郡医疗保健NHS信托和精神病学研究所和*脑损伤HTC，剑桥大学医院NHS基金会信托。这个由设计研究人员和医疗技术专家组成的网络将开展一系列以设计为主导的试点项目，以探索护理独立性挑战的解决方案。试点项目的目的是鼓励创新，以便找到使用技术的激进新方法，在保持临床质量、安全性、患者和护理人员体验的同时降低成本，实现可持续的患者独立性。试点项目将根据需要进行驱动，并将作为与国家卫生研究院医疗保健技术合作社联网的一部分进行选择。试点项目的产出将是可进一步发展的概念性设计（不受网络资助）或可发展成研究建议的研究需要的定义。

Global and local (UK) populations are ageing and this has contributed to an increase in demand for health and welfare services. Chronic and long-term conditions are also on the increase, leading to increased costs of health and social care and wide-ranging changes to the nature of health interventions. As a result, it is increasingly desirable to keep people out of hospital, treating people nearer to, or in their home. For reasons of cost, convenience and dignity it is also sometimes desirable that patients engage in self-care or carer-delivered care. Care independence has long been a feature of some diagnosis and treatment regimes: most medications are taken by the patient themselves; diabetic patients regularly monitor blood sugar levels and inject themselves. This work aims to extend these concepts of self care to a boarder range of health conditions, and their associated technologies, that are not currently expected to be delivered by the patient or their carer. The network consists of four academic centres:* Cambridge Engineering Design Centre, University of Cambridge;* CHI+MED, Collaboration led by University College London (UCL);* Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University and* Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, Royal College of Artand three Healthcare Technology Cooperatives (HTCs)* Devices for Dignity, (D4D) Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;* MindTech HTC, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and Institute of Psychiatry and * Brain Injury HTC, Cambridge Universities Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.This network of design researchers and healthcare technology specialists will carry out a series of design-led pilot projects to explore solutions to care independence challenges. The aim of the pilot projects is to encourage innovation in order to find radical new ways of using technologies to allow sustainable patient independence while maintaining clinical quality, safety and patient and carer experience while reducing costs. The pilot projects will be need driven and will be selected as part of the networking with NIHR Healthcare Technology Cooperatives. The pilot project outputs will be conceptual designs that can be further developed (not funded by the network) or definitions of research need that can be developed into research proposals.