Crackerjack Visual Thinking

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  • Great feedback from Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust about the ‘Transforming Care for the Future’ rich picture created by Crackerjack Visual Thinking #engage #communicate

    Very pleased to be able to share feedback we’ve received from Mark Lindsay, Assistant Director of Strategy, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, in relation to the ‘Transforming Care for the Future’ rich picture we created for use across the organisation:

    “John from Crackerjack Visual Thinking was commissioned to create a rich picture depicting our strategy. In doing so he engaged with the team, not only offering suggestions, but importantly he listened to what we felt was important. He then seamlessly weaved this into the working document in a very timely manner.

    He was very quick to respond and worked flexibly in terms of time and method of communication. We found that most of the work could be carried out over the telephone or email, but when we requested that he visit us, John didn’t hesitate to make the long journey.

    He was happy to amend the work until we were completely satisfied with the result – which we were. If you are looking to depict your message through a rich picture, then John comes highly recommended!”

    Mark Lindsay – Assistant Director of Strategy

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  • Hand-drawn animation used to visualise #goodhydration key messages for Oxford Patient Safety #communicate #engage #NHS

    Hand-drawn animation used to visualise #goodhydration key messages for Oxford Patient Safety #communicate #engage #NHS

    Crackerjack recently spent some time with Oxford Medical Illustration (@OMINHS) to develop six short videos for Oxford Patient Safety featuring our hand-drawn animations on the theme of ensuring elderly patients receive good hydration throughout their time in care and rehabilitation.

    Good Hydration Animation

    The benefits of good hydration are well researched and documented and the video provides an overview of the key ways in which patient hydration can be encouraged and integrated into patients daily care routines.

    Hand-drawn animation provides another method of reinforcing key messages in a way that is memorable and engages the audience. To find out more, please CONTACT US. 

  • Getting ready to start a MAGNET whiteboard explainer animation for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust #NHS #NUH #MAGNET #animation

    Getting ready to start a MAGNET whiteboard explainer animation for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust #NHS #NUH #MAGNET #animation

    All set to strat creating a whiteboard explainer animation video for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust to provide an overview of their approach to achieving MAGNET accreditation.

    Step 1: lay down the scripted voiceover that we’ve been working on…

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    If you are interested in finding out more about whiteboard explainer videos, please CONTACT US.

  • High Performing Hospital rich picture created for Manchester University Hospitals #NHS Foundation Trust #visualthinking #MFTnhs

    Crackerjack Visual Thinking is pleased to be able to share a rich picture we created for Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MUH) earlier this year. The image was created to drive discussion and understanding across the organisation of what a high-performing hospital (sometimes referred to as a model hospital) looks like.

    MUH High Performing Hospital 2017

    Helen Farrington, Associate Director of OD and Training at MUH, comments:

    “John from Crackerjack has the amazing ability to make sense of complex information and translate a concept into something that is creative, meaningful and has impact! Creating our ‘rich picture’ required incorporating a diverse range of views and opinions- never easy – but John was patient and flexible and as a result we have something that has wide appeal and application.”

    Crackerjack is currently developing a number of other rich pictures for MUH.

    To find out more about rich pictures and how they could help you engage and inform people in your organisation, please CONTACT US.

  • Crackerjack creating rich pictures for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust #nhs #nuh #magnetrecognition #visualthinking #engage

    Crackerjack creating rich pictures for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust #nhs #nuh #magnetrecognition #visualthinking #engage

    I’m very pleased to share that Crackerjack Visual Thinking will be working with Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust to create two rich pictures and an animation to share key themes and ideas relating to both nursing and midwifery professional practice models (PPM) and the MAGNET recognition programme respectively.

    Here’s a sneak peak at part of the PPM rich picture that’s currently in development:

    NUH example

    To find out more about rich pictures and how they can help you communicate and engage with your people, please CONTACT US.

    John Ashton
    Director – Crackerjack Visual Thinking

  • Great client feedback about one of our recent graphic recordings! #communicate #engage #visualthinking

    “Hello John,

    I got the graphic recording. It looks fantastic, thank you so much. We are going to get a nice big printout of this and put it up on the main corridor. I am still amazed by the level of clarity you pick up in what you have heard – it is amazing!”

    Matt Cadby | Project Manager | Transformation Team | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    OUH 12th Dec 2016 Graphic Recording

    To find out more about our work please contact us or visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

  • Great feedback about our #Quality #Improvement Toolkit from Oxford University Hospitals #NHS #engage #communicate

    Earlier this year, Crackerjack was commissioned by Belinda Boulton (Director of Transformation for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) to design and produce an on-line interactive service improvement guide for her organisation.

    The ‘Oxford Quality Improvement Toolkit’ brings together numerous quality improvement tools, templates and techniques into one simple to use practical guide that is accessible across all platforms and devices including laptops, tablets and smartphones.

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    The toolkit is designed to support anyone (from front-line staff to senior management) who wants to make an improvement in their part of the organisation, whether that’s making a change to a single patient process through to managing a major change programme across a team or department.

    We were extremely pleased to receive the following feedback from Belinda on completion of the work:

    “We knew what service improvement information we wanted to convey. However, we weren’t sure about how to present that information in such a way as to engage our colleagues and enthuse them in relation to our service improvement goals. John Ashton from Crackerjack Visual Thinking listened to our ideas and explored with us the nature of our audience and what would give them an affinity with the ‘Toolkit’. John helped us to bring our ideas to life in the form of an interactive ‘Oxford Quality Improvement Toolkit’, an on-line guide which brings service improvement tools to life. The work was delivered to time frames and exceeded our expectations.  We are looking forward to working with John in the future on other projects.”

    To discuss how Crackerjack could help you in your work, please contact us, call +44(0)775 282 6227 or visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

  • Helping the NHS transform using visual thinking #engage #communicate #NHS

    In the news the NHS is never far from the headlines. ‘7 Day Working’, ‘Improving Quality’, ‘Focussing on Prevention’ and ‘Better Use of Technology’ are often mentioned and form key parts of the NHS 5 Year Forward View. This builds upon 15 years of improvement in the NHS and provides a broad consensus on what a better future for the NHS should be.

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    Over the last couple of years Crackerjack has been working with a number of NHS Foundation Trusts (Oxford Health Foundation Trust, Solent NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) as they work on finding ways to implement the ideas and initiatives contained in the 5 Year Forward View. It’s pleasing to see that visual thinking approaches are playing a part in helping NHS Foundation Trusts in this important work. We’ve been involved in the following work to date:

    • Designing and developing an interactive on-line ‘Improvement Guide’ for Oxford Health Foundation Trust.
    • Creating a rich picture showing Solent NHS Foundation Trusts new vision.
    • Designing and creating an interactive on-line ‘7 Day Services Guide’ for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
    • Graphic recording a number of strategy and engagement events for both Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
    • Designing a graphically facilitated ‘Making Every Contact Count’ engagement session for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
    • Running a graphic skills workshop for the Oxford Health Improvement and Innovation Team.
    • Designing and creating an interactive on-line ‘Oxford Quality Improvement Toolkit’ for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

    The tools and approaches we’ve created all have a single goal: to engage people and provide them with the information they need in the most accessible, informative and relevant way possible. Using visual thinking principles in all of our work enables Crackerjack to achieve this goal.

    To find out more about how Crackerjack could help you engage and communicate with you people more effectively (whether you work in the NHS or in another sector), please contact us, call +44 (0)775 282 6227 or visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com

  • Crackerjack Visual Thinking commissioned to produce interactive guides for Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust #visualthinking

    Crackerjack is very pleased to report that it has been commissioned by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to produce a number of interactive guides to support the organisations on-going transformation work.

    The commission was based upon the work Crackerjack undertook earlier this year for another NHS Trust in developing an interactive Improvement Guide for managers across the organisation.

    Interactive PDF created for client

    We will share more information about this exciting new project as the work progresses.

    To find out more about our work, please visit www.crackerjackvisualthinking.com