Spark Innovation Programme@ProgrammeSpark

Frontline Innovation Programme for Healthcare Workers. Supported by @NDTP_HSE @NurMidONMSD @WeHSCPs. Get in touch spark@hse.ie

 Ireland
hse.ie/spark
Joined March 2019
January is off to a strong start 🚀 From funding deadlines & fellowships to the launch of Spark Ignite & a Design Thinking Workshop, this month is all about turning ideas into action across healthcare.💡Have an idea or want to get involved? ✉️ spark@hse.ie #HSESprk #Innovation
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Opportunity for a National Innovation Fellowship with the HSE Spark Innovation Programme! Application deadline: 5pm 16 Jan 2026. 💡Find out more: Register for a live info webinar at 1pm Friday 9th Jan 2026 events.teams.microsoft.com/e… 📩Apply online : healthservice.hse.ie/staff/s…
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Important announcement! The deadline for applications for Spark Impact 2026 has been extended! New deadline - 5pm Fri 9 Jan 2026 Open to HSE and Section 38 staff. Applicants must have completed a Design Thinking Workshop to be eligible. Full details hse.ie/spark
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Thinking of applying to Spark Impact 2026? Join us for our information webinars: Webinar dates: • General webinar: 20 Nov @1pm Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/e… • Pharmacy webinar: 24 Nov @1pm Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/e… Full details: hse.ie/spark
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Breaking News! Spark Impact 2026 is live! Avail of €5,000–€90,000 to bring your innovation to life. 📅 Key Dates: 🗓️ Info Webinar (HSE & Sec 38): Nov 20, 1 PM 💡 Design Thinking Workshops: Dec 10 & 17 ⏰ Deadline: Jan 4, 2026 🔗 More info & apply: hse.ie/spark
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🚨Breaking News🚨 🌟The Spark Seed initiative is live🌟 🌱 Spark Seed is a seed-funding initiative from the HSE Spark Innovation Programme that runs twice a year, offering frontline healthcare workers micro-funding of up to €5,000.
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Best in Class at HSE Climate & Sustainability Recognition Awards: 🏥 Buildings & Green Environments 🥈 Highly-Commended: Nth Dublin Mental Health Service & St Joseph's Intellectual Disability Service: A Strategic Water Conservation Project (Aidan McKenna & Team)
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Best in Class at HSE Climate & Sustainability Recognition Awards: 🏥 Buildings and Green Environments 🏆 Winner – Maynooth Community Care Unit, Social Care: Sustainability and Climate Action in Older Person Services (Maura Beegan & Team)
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Best in Class at HSE Climate & Sustainability Recognition Awards: 💚 Greener Models of Care 🥈 Highly Commended – Tallaght University Hospital: My Green Lab Project (Dr. Ana Rakovac).
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Best in Class at HSE Climate & Sustainability Recognition Awards: 💚 Greener Models of Care 🏆 Winner – Tallaght University Hospital: Green Inhaler Project (Iarlaith Doherty, Dr. Ana Rakovac. Absent from photo - Dr. Deirdre Fitzgerald)
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Best in Class at HSE Climate & Sustainability Recognition Awards: 🌱 Sustainable Waste Category: 🥈 Highly Commended – Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda: Food Waste Reduction using AI Technology (Sharon Gallagher & Team)
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Best in Class at HSE Climate & Sustainability Recognition Awards: 🌱 Sustainable Waste Category Winner 🏆 Cork University Hospital: Remanufactured electrosurgical devices–reducing the environmental impact of surgery at CUH and CUMH (Dr. Seán Owens for Dr. Cathy Burke & Team)
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There is still time to register for our Spark Connect Webinar next Monday October 6th at 2pm! Spark Connect Events are organized and ran locally, to engage frontline staff and promote innovation! 👉 Register your interest for the webinar below! lnkd.in/dmRxDGYz
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🎉 Congratulations to @GaryGar10114613 – HSE Spark Innovator of the Month! Gary’s project (with co-lead @CatherineFeen11 ) is helping transform pre-hospital care for older adults across Ireland 🚑 @PathfinderLUH @SiobhanMasters5 @clarkedave @RosaleenGreene_ @Shane_Banjo
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🚀 HSE/Section 38 staff: Ready to drive change in healthcare? Join our free online Design Thinking Workshop to turn creative ideas into real impact. Perfect prep for Spark Seed & Impact this autumn! 🗓 Sept 10 or Nov 12 | ⏰ 9:30–17:00 👉 Book now: lnkd.in/e3Z45Y7z
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🎉 Congratulations to Valerie Casserly – HSE Spark Innovator of the Month! Her project reshapes a traditional referral pathway to reduce wait times, save money & free up clinic space. @NurMidONMSD @WeHSCPs @ValerieCasserl2 @PTOLOLH @_ISCP_ @CPNG_ISCP
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Our wonderful research lead Dr. Michelle Howard @meshelleh talked about Ethics and oversight in innovation 'To REC or Not To REC'. #SparkSummit25
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Clinical insights on AI and imaging Prof. Peter McMahon ,Consultant Radiologist at the Mater Misericordiae University & Clinical Professor at University College Dublin shared his frontline experience at #SparkSummit25 Great clinical examples & practicalities
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“Consultation, Engagement, Partnership" Brilliant thought provoking discussion on patient centred care within the HSE by
Iolo Eilian, Assistant National Director Patient and Service User Experience, HSE and 
Anne Lawlor, Co Chair, HSE Patient Forum 👏🏻 #SparkSummit2025
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“Artificial Intelligence for Better Public Services" Eoin Tunstead, Public Service Transformation, Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform outlining the responsible use of AI in the public service 🙌🏻 #SparkSummit2025
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Kevin Kelly, Head of the AI and Automation Centre of Excellence within HSE Technology and Transformation outlining the roadmap and the 4 pillars within the HSE AI Strategy and Implementation Framework. ‘Keep the human hand on the AI wheel’ 👏🏻 #SparkSummit2025
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Closing out our morning session was our own National Clinical Innovation Lead Caitriona Heffernan talks of defining value in health innovation –she introduces the Vista Framework at #SparkSummit25
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The journey ahead with AI - how can we give time back to our clinicians and patients by utilising AI? Keep the patient at the centre of the journey. Insightful keynote presentation from Sharon Scanlan, Partner, Healthcare & Life Sciences Lead, Grant Thornton. #SparkSummit2025
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A warm and encouraging address from Minister for Health Dr @CarrollJennifer Thank you for endorsing the work of HSE staff in design and innovation 🙌 @HSELive @roinnslainte @JaredGormly @CcoHse @BernardGloster @dermotburke0
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OT Led Reablement: Promoting Patient Flow 🏥➡️🏡 Megan Walsh, Senior Occupational Therapist, University Hospital Waterford outlining how a time limited intervention delivered in people’s homes can bridge the gap between hospital and home for our older patients🥰 #SparkSummit2025
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@BernardGloster kindly selected two CEO Choice Innovation Awards for exceptional work in patient access: Congrats to: SitWell Pathway – Linda Keogh, OT, CHO8
Virtual OSA Pathway – Dr Laura Piggott, Resp SPR Amazing achievement all💡👏 @CarrollJennifer @roinnslainte @HSELive
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Wonderful discussion with system leaders on stage – a powerful panel on shaping better public services through innovation. #SparkSummit25 @CcoHse
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Excellent presentation from @AleishaClarke3, National Programme Manager Mental Health and Wellbeing HSE, highlighting the importance of including the end users perspective and needs in developing an online stress management programme 👏🏻 #SparkSummit2025
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Brilliant initiative “Changing the Lens: Transforming Care for Survivors of Sexual Violence" from @cathmarsh4 National Nursing / Midwifery Fellow for Innovation / Clinical Nurse Examiner in SAT - improving patient experience and outcomes ✨ #SparkSummit2025
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Carole Broadbank, Integrated Healthcare Area Manager for the Midlands, HSE outlined the incredible work done by all for access to children's services, solving this "wicked problem", and they're not done yet! #SparkSummit2025
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Field research and the frontlines: Designing with empathy - A wonderful keynote from Kate Lydon, Director, Big Motive. Starting first with people, the key step in innovative change 🥰 #SparkSummit2025
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Game-changing work on pharmacogenetics presented by Prof. Dominick McCabe, consultant Neurologist, bringing personalised anti-platelet therapy to TIA/Stroke patients in @TUH_Tallaght #SparkSummit2025
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Incredible innovation on the frontline line - Using Virtual Reality to reduce stress and pain intensity for patients attending pain services. Presented by the brilliant Anna Marie Kiernan, RANP @nenad_1982 @HSEMidWest #SparkSummit2025
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BABYTALK - A wonderful project to promote speaking, singing, and reading for developmental outcomes to neonatal unit patients presented by the amazing @d_bradley, Senior Speech and Language Therapist, OLOLH Drogheda 🤗 #SparkSummit2025
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Point of Care blood testing for Letterkenny Pathfinder Patients - NAS blood testing to help treat patients at home. Patient interest first, what innovation is all about! Well done Gary Gardiner and all involved in the Pathfinder service! #SparkSummit2025
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Thank you Robert Watt from @roinnslainte for your talk - and thank you for supporting innovation and change across health services! #SparkSummit2025 @HSELive @CcoHse @BernardGloster
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Our own wonderful National HSCP Innovation Fellow @Siobhan Power opened the proceedings today to a packed auditorium. @HSELive staff are the BEST! 🤗 @JaredGormly @WeHSCPs @caitrionaHeffernan @dermotburke0 @Claire McElvanna
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“Look to your left and to your right, you are innovators and come to work every day thinking of ways to do things better for your patients - and what a wonderful thing” - @BernardGloster thank you for your support of frontline innovation at #SparkSummit25 and beyond 🙌 @HSELive
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The stage is set - we have a real treat in store for you 🤩🙌 #SparkSummit25 ….Who’s coming? @NDTP_HSE @NurMidONMSD @WeHSCPs @HSETandT @JaredGormly @HSELive
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🎉 The #DOTFL2025 National Showcase is happening today!
12 student scholars. 12 powerful innovations. 
Real-world healthcare challenges, reimagined through design.
 Let’s celebrate the future of Irish healthcare. 🇮🇪
 #HSEspark #HealthcareInnovation #DesignForImpact
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🚨 Speaker Announcement | Spark Summit 2025 🚨 We are thrilled to welcome Catherine Marsh, National Nursing & Midwifery Innovation Fellow, as a speaker at Spark Summit 2025, taking place on 11 June 2025 at the @DubRoyalCC Registration details at: investnet.ie/spark-summit25
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🌟 Innovators of the Month: Jessie Ryan & Fiona Lucey 🌟 Jessie & Fiona, Clinical Specialist Physiotherapists at UHL, are transforming Vestibular Rehabilitation with a digital platform using head sensor tech for remote rehab, improving outcomes and reducing travel. Congrats 👏
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🚨 Speaker Announcement | Spark Summit 2025 🚨 We’re pleased to welcome Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Health as a distinguished speaker at Spark Summit 2025 on 11 June at the @DubRoyalCC Full speaker lineup & Registration details: investnet.ie/spark-summit25
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🚨 Speaker Announcement | Spark Summit 2025 🚨 We are honoured to welcome @BernardGloster , CEO of the HSE as a keynote speaker at Spark Summit 2025, on 11 June at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre Full speaker lineup & Registration details: investnet.ie/spark-summit25
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🚨 Speaker Announcement | Spark Summit 2025🚨 We’re thrilled to welcome Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD (@CarrollJennifer), Minister for Health to Spark Summit 2025 on 11 June at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre Full speaker lineup & Registration details: investnet.ie/spark-summit25
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Deadline Extended!🎉 Exciting news – the deadline for the Bright Spark Awards and Poster Presentations as part of Spark Summit '25 has been extended to 2nd May 2025! ⏩ Submit your Poster : hse-ie.libwizard.com/id/a716… ⏩ Bright Spark Awards: hse-ie.libwizard.com/id/5c05…
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📢 Applications Open for Spark Summit 2025 Poster Presentations! ✨ Submit your innovative projects now. ⏩ Apply: hse-ie.libwizard.com/id/a716… ⏳ Deadline: 18th April 2025 ⏰ Get tickets for the Summit: eventbrite.ie/e/spark-summit… Watch 2024 highlights: piped.video/126AVa8pX7w
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🚀 Excitement is Building! 🚀 Today’s sessions focus on: 🔹 Cancer Care – Innovating patient outcomes. 🔹 Patient Flow – Optimising efficiency. Thanks to our judges and good luck to all applicants! 🎉 📢 Tag your team, share the momentum, and champion innovation!
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🚀 Spark Impact Pitching Starts Friday! 🚀 Today marks the final pitching day, featuring groundbreaking healthcare innovations. Big thanks to our applicants and judges! 📢 Tag colleagues and share the excitement!
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🌟 HSE Spark Impact – Day 2🌟 Today, our innovators pitch their digital projects for a chance at the Spark Impact Award! 🚀💡 Congrats to all for making it this far - good luck! 🍀👏 Thank you to our judges for their time and expertise. Stay tuned for the exciting pitches! 🎉
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