A year with
EDGE International
It has been an eventful 15 months for everyone to say the least. I could say more but it would only go to repeat what has been said already by so many. Although Covid has dominated every facet of our working lives, there are still many achievements we can talk about. I felt now would be a good time to write a post to share some of the stories from the last year of the EDGE International groups, a little bit of a ‘Christmas Round Robin’ if you will, but in June!
Our colleagues in Canada have been working with the C17 network, a collaborative group of paediatric haematology, oncology, and stem cell transplant program centres, to implement EDGE into their programme of work. Early to join have been the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto and Montreal Children’s Hospital and more recently Stollery Children Hospital and Alberta Children Hospital. This now brings the total number of Canadian Centres using EDGE to 34 which has come about through a lot of hard work and dedication from our partners out there. With the remote monitoring case study now available (see previous blog post) Canada is exploring how this can be used across the regional network groups.
In New Zealand, we have also welcomed the Starship Children’s Hospital in Auckland to the programme along with their colleagues in Blood and Cancer at ADHB and the University of Auckland. All are looking at how EDGE can break down siloed working and bring together common systems and standards across their region with other district health boards keeping a close eye on how EDGE will evolve across the region.
Our most recent newcomer to the group is the CTRU at K. J. Somaiya Hospital and Research centre in Mumbai, India who started their training in early May and are getting ready to run with EDGE. This is a really exciting new group for the EDGE team to be working with and the CTRU have some great plans ahead.
In combination with our exploratory projects and Pilots in South Africa, Brazil, Sri Lanka, and Australia we now have a whopping 3000 international research studies being run through EDGE which is phenomenal.
While the international groups joining EDGE continue to grow a big thanks should be extended from our Team at CIRU to yours! The generosity of our subscriber base in the UK and Canada to share their experience, hard work, learning, and achievements with our new international colleagues must not go unacknowledged. The willingness to collaborate and share to help those starting from scratch is what the EDGE programme is best known for. In the absence of a 2021 EDGE Conference and the ability to gather in person, our subscribers have embraced working together online. A community of like-minded friends looking to help one another achieve a common goal. Thank You.