This Thursday 16th February the Valdecilla general session will be held on Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy. Therapeutic hypothermia in the neonatal unit. The session will be given by Dr. Ana Orizaola Ingelmo (F.E.A de Pediatría).

The session will take place on Thursday 16th February at 8:15 am in the Gómez Durán Hall.

The session will be available later for viewing on the youtube channel of the Cantabrian Health Service.

Primary care is a key priority in terms of elements needed to strengthen the resilience of health systems, as well as to improve their accessibility. The new EU4Health funded Joint Action CIRCE-JA aims to improve and foster health in the European Union and strengthen health systems through reinforcing primary health care.

CIRCE-JA is a 36-month Join Action that will effectively transfer and implement 6 selected best practices (BPs) in primary health care among European Member States. CIRCE-JA consortium is led by the Andalusian Health Service (Spain) and comprises 49 organisations of 14 EU Member States, that represent European healthcare systems and services directly connected to the overall aim of this Joint Action, being Best Paractices owners or implementers.

CIRCE-JA 6 Best Practices belong to 4 Member States (Belgium, Portugal, Slovenia and Spain) and will be trasfer in to 45 implementation sites from 12 Member States with relevant structural, organisational and institutional differences in their health care systems. The role of IDIVAL and the Cantabrian Health Service in this project will consist of replicating the good practice proposed by Slovenia in our primary care system. The Cantabrian team is led by Iñaki Lapuente, primary care manager of the Cantabrian Health Service

The tranfer process will be supported by scientific evidence-based methodology, raising MS capacity in implementing innovative care models and addressing health system transformation at this level of care. Moreover, knowledge transfer and twinning actions will support the transferring and implementation process, including a wide range of activities, such as workshops, staff visits and secondments, policy dialogues, expert advice, mutual and peer learning programmes. The transferring and implementation process will be monitored and assessed. Knowledge will be generated and shared addressing the main elements and recommendations for its success beyond the duration of the Joint action.

The selected best practices are:

• Integrated Health Association –Region of Wallonia, Belgium
• TELEA: Home telemonitoring in Primary Care for chronic disease and Covid-19 – Galicia, Spain
• Integrated care for complex chronic patients in Andalusia (Spain): Personalised care action plans (PAPs) – Andalusia, Spain
• Essencial Project: Adding value to clinical primary care practice – Catalonia, Spain
• ‘Health Action for Children and Youth at Risk’ & ‘Health Action for Gender, Violence and Lifecycle’ – Portugal
• Health Promotion Centres (HPCs) – Slovenia

The Joint Action commenced on February 1, 2023 and the official kick-off meeting is scheduled to take place on March 6th and 7th in Seville.

For more information:

Visit CIRCE-JA website: https://centrumwiedzy.nfz.gov.pl/509,circe-ja

Or contact:

Ana M Carriazo

Coordinator

e-mail: circe.ja.fps@juntadeandalucia.es

Session “The commitment to quality at the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital: Best in Class (BIC) Awards” will be led by Dr. Rafael Tejido García, Managing Director of Valdecilla Hospital.

The speakers will be the following:

BIC 2022 Award in Pneumology. Dr. José Manuel Cifrián Martínez. Head of the Pneumology Department.

BIC 2022 Award in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Lourdes López de Munain Marqués. Head of the Rehabilitation Service.

BIC 2022 Award in Rheumatology. Dr. Ricardo Blanco Alonso. Head of Rheumatology Section.

The session will take place on Thursday 19 January at 8:15 a.m. in the Gómez Durán Hall of the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital.

This Thursday 19^th, in the Valdecilla session, the BIC 2021 awards will be presented at the Valdecilla Hospital. The General Valdecilla session “The commitment to quality at the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital: Best in Class (BIC) Awards” will be led by Dr. Rafael Tejido García, Managing Director of Valdecilla Hospital.

The speakers will be the following:

BIC 2022 Award in Pneumology. Dr. José Manuel Cifrián Martínez. Head of the Pneumology Department.

BIC 2022 Award in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Dr. Lourdes López de Munain Marqués. Head of the Rehabilitation Service.

BIC 2022 Award in Rheumatology. Dr. Ricardo Blanco Alonso. Head of Rheumatology Section.

After the presentations, the winners and finalists of the XVII Edition of the BIC Awards will be presented with plaques and diplomas by the organisers of the awards.

The session will take place on Thursday 19 January at 8:15 a.m. in the Gómez Durán Hall of the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital.

The first session of the third edition of the “IDIVAL Group Synergies” dissemination programme will be held on 18 January.  The main objective of this cycle of sessions is to improve knowledge of the activities and priority research lines of the groups, which favour the creation of synergies for new alliances in collaborative work.

In this session Isabel Pérez Loza, a nurse at the HUMV critical cardiology unit, will talk about the adventure of participating in multicentre studies from the point of view of care, focusing on the participation of the critical cardiology unit in different multicentre studies.

Isabel Pérez Loza holds a Diploma in Nursing from the University School of Oviedo. She has subsequently pursued further training such as the University Master’s Degree in Health Care Research, Master’s Degree in Digital Health and Master’s Degree in Nursing Care Management and Leadership. She is also an expert in Heart Failure in Nursing.

Since 2005 she has been a nurse in different medical and surgical units at HUMV, working since 2014 in the Critical Cardiology unit.

She is a member of the IDIVAL nursing research group. She is principal investigator in Cantabria of three multicentre projects, the MOviPre project (Early mobilisation), the CHRONOHOSPI project (Circadian health in patients admitted to intensive care and hospitalisation units) and the project “H-ÍCARO Study (Humanisation in Intensive Care Units and its relationship with Work Engagement, Resilience and BurnOut in Spain).

She is also a contributor to the magazine #FanzinEnfermería and has several publications in the journal Enfermería en Cardiología and Enfermería Intensiva and has participated in different congresses with papers and posters.

Finally, she is a member of the scientific committee of the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Valdecilla Innovation and Development Conference, participates in different working groups, is a teacher and collaborator in the “Training course in critical care nursing” and has been responsible with VD (venia docendi) in the critical cardiology unit since 2020.

The session will start on the 18th of January at 14:00h and will last 45 minutes.

Registration is required to obtain the access link: Click Here

We encourage you to participate. If you have any doubts or queries, please contact proyectos1@idival.org and gesval4@idival.org.

IDIVAL has collaborated on the new Cantabrian Health Service application MiSalud@SCS, launched on 5 December, which to date has had more than 22,000 users in its first month of operation.

The collaboration of the Valdecilla Research Institute (IDIVAL) together with the Cantabrian School of Health was key in the app usability tests carried out, based on proven methodologies and scientific evidence, carried out with real patients to validate the design and functionality of the application.

IDIVAL has a team of experts in ergonomics and human factors in the Institute’s innovation team with experience in different usability and evaluation projects for healthcare technologies. The team carries out ergonomics and human factor studies of healthcare technologies and processes and supports their implementation with the aim of making their use safer. In addition, IDIVAL has an alliance with experts from the MedStar Institute for Innovation in Washington, a world leader in Human Factor and Ergonomics.

The new MiSalud@SCS App provides the user with very useful and relevant functionalities such as primary care appointments, hospital appointments, surgical waiting list, access to electronic prescriptions, clinical discharge reports, outpatient and emergency consultations, COVID laboratory results, location of pharmacies and healthcare centres, and a frequently asked questions (FAQ) area. This new app incorporates a highly visual and accessible interface with easier authentication including biometric authentication (Face ID, fingerprint).

Cohorte Cantabria is an observational clinical research study “unique and pioneering in Spain” that is being developed at the Valdecilla Hospital. The aim is to learn and understand the causes and advance in diagnosis and prognosis of different acute and chronic diseases affecting the population of the community. Cohorte Cantabria is a multipurpose cohort, open to the scientific community and designed to study diseases associated with aging, lifestyle and quality of life, nutrition and exercise, with the aim of finding new health determinants.

Since it was launched in April 2021, it has not ceased to be successful, so it expects to become one of the largest cohorts in the country and an international reference. To date, more than 20,000 volunteers have signed up and the goal is to recruit 20% of the target population (40-69 years old) in each municipality of Cantabria, a total of 50,000 volunteers. Currently, Santander and the municipalities around the bay are the ones that contribute the most participants to the project and are closest to achieving this goal, but it is necessary to increase the participation of the most remote areas.

Participation in this project is voluntary and altruistic, contributing to the development of biomedical research. All those interested in joining this project can do so through the website www.cohortecantabria.com, where information and the possibility of registering are available.