Company Overview
My Improvement Network is privileged to be working with over 1000 health and social care facilities across the UK. My Improvement Network evolved from humble beginnings that culminated around the desire to help a person in a care home with dementia where there was a very clear lack of stimulation, therapeutic activities, personal engagement and entertainment. That desire was personal because the person who had dementia was a relative of the Founder of the Company. Knowing this relative and how they had previously been able to spend their life, their career, their successes and their overall resourcefulness immediately impacted him and prompted his desire to challenge the status quo. The belief that there must be something positive that could be done to enrich this person’s life and allow their time to pass in a much more qualitative way, became the challenge.
Over the past 15 years we have worked across the full spectrum of Health & Social Care including: Over 450 Acute, Mental Health, Community hospitals, many Care Homes, CCG’s, Councils, Hospices, Charities and individuals.
We have built up an extensive network of care professionals and clinicians who have contributed to the ongoing development and improvement of the RITA technology. RITA is an award-winning digital therapy and patient experience technology which is achieving some remarkable bi-product outcomes. In summary, our Reminiscence Interactive Therapy Activities system (RITA) is used across the NHS and social care sector in areas such as dementia, elderly wards, mental health, A&E, ITU and many hundreds of care homes across the UK. RITA has been evidenced to achieve impactful bi-product outcomes which will directly contribute to significant cost reduction, patient flow improvement and reduce demand on beds from more complex patients who are prone to longer stays in hospital. All of these outcomes will directly support the effort to get through the significant backlog from a waiting list perspective. Reduced Hospital admissions, reduced falls, reduced length of stay, reduced DToC, reduced need for high cost 1-1, 2-1 & 3-1 care, reduced use of anti-psychotic and sleeping medication, improvements in nutrition and hydration rates and significantly enhanced patient/resident/family and staff experience!
Product Overview
RITA is an award-winning all-in-one touch Screen solution which offers digital reminiscence therapy which is a relatively new tool in the fields of nursing and healthcare. RITA is aimed at offering support for older people, people with mental health issues, learning difficulties and brain injuries as a means of supporting them and reducing their agitation, isolation, depression and delirium.
Encompasses the use of user-friendly interactive touch screen 24” monitors and 10” tablets (Does not require Wi-Fi or 4G) Blends entertainment with therapy Assists patients (particularly with memory impairments) in recalling and sharing events from their past through listening to music, watching films and news reports of significant historical events, listening to war-time speeches, playing games and karaoke, viewing old maps and photographs. Supports person-centred care via personalised content favorites, my Life books, collages and passports. RITA is an award-winning digital therapy and patient experience technology which is achieving some remarkable bi-product outcomes. In summary, our Reminiscence Interactive Therapy Activities system (RITA) is used across the NHS and social care sector in areas such as dementia, elderly wards, mental health, A&E, ITU and many hundreds of care homes across the UK.
RITA has been evidenced to achieve impactful bi-product outcomes which will directly contribute to significant cost reduction, patient flow improvement and reduce demand on beds from more complex patients who are prone to longer stays in hospital. All of these outcomes will directly support the effort to get through the significant backlog from a waiting list perspective. Reduced Hospital admissions, reduced falls, reduced length of stay, reduced DToC, reduced need for high cost 1-1, 2-1 & 3-1 care, reduced use of anti-psychotic and sleeping medication, improvements in nutrition and hydration rates and significantly enhanced patient/resident/family and staff experience!