Lesley Bull, a South London GP and our 1000th delegate chats to Lois-Hooper Ainsworth, Programme Coordinator on the National Polypharmacy Programme, about why she registered for the Health Innovation Network Polypharmacy Action Learning Set, what she got out of it and why other GPs should attend. Lesley Bull So, Lesley, could you tell [...]
A range of NHS-branded patient information materials launched last year by the Health Innovation Network to support and prepare people who have been invited for a Structured Medication Review with their GP, pharmacist or other healthcare professional, have been found to empower patients and improve the quality of consultations. Developed in partnership with patients, Leeds [...]
Jo Barosa is Account Director at Qbtech UK. Qbtech is a market leading provider of innovative objective tests for assessing and treating ADHD, changing the landscape of ADHD care. Driven by its mission to improve the lives of people with ADHD, Qbtech supports by providing digital and clinical solutions to improve clinical decision making, service [...]
Health Innovation Manchester has today (14 October 2024) announced a groundbreaking strategic partnership with Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) to initiate a five-year real-world evidence study (SURMOUNT-REAL UK), subject to relevant approvals. The announcement has been made as part of a collaboration agreed between Lilly and UK Government today, unveiled at the Government’s International Investment [...]
In support of ADHD awareness month this October, the Health Innvovation Network is highlighting the impact of the innovation QbTest – an objective assessment tool to assist in the diagnosis of ADHD. Three quarters of all NHS trusts that provide ADHD services have adopted the innovation and since April 2020, more than 77,000 children and [...]
The challenges the NHS and social care sector are facing, laid bare by the Darzi report, have led to widespread acceptance that change is needed across the NHS to better care for patients, support the NHS workforce and drive economic growth. The new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care stated it is now [...]
Dr Cheryl Crocker, interim Chief Operating Officer at the Health Innovation Network, explains the vital role innovation plays to not only reduce waiting lists and improve access to care, but to decrease system pressure by improving people’s health and keeping them well for longer. The new Government has rightly declared its focus on moving the [...]
Launched in 2014, SiSU Health is scaling early warning, self-service health kiosks, digital platforms and pathways into pre-existing healthcare services. The British Heart Foundation estimates the annual cardiovascular disease (CVD) related costs to the UK healthcare system are around £10 billion, with annual costs to the UK economy of an estimated £25 billion. Making the [...]
Rebecca Howard is a psychotherapist and Founder and CEO of ShinyMind, an award-winning digital wellbeing prescription and prescribing platform. ShinyMind offers large-scale mental health virtual group consultations, designed to reduce workload and widen access in primary care, helping over 100 patients simultaneously think better, feel better and live better. Tell us about the innovation. What [...]
You can find out more here about the collective impact of this work and how a focus on patient safety can not only reduce avoidable harm, but can also reduce demand and improve NHS productivity. Laura Rooney Health Innovation Manchester is currently working on an Innovate UK funded ‘Health Innovation Accelerator’ - [...]
NHS Confederation and the Association of British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) have launched guidance ‘Accelerating transformation: how to develop effective NHS-industry partnerships.’ Warmly welcomed by Health Innovation Network, it explores how collaboration and partnership can support the delivery of NHS priorities and enable the ‘triple win’ of improved patient outcomes, more efficient use of NHS resources [...]
World Patient Safety Day on Tuesday 17 September, organised by the World Health Organisation, seeks to raise awareness and promote collaboration between patients, health workers, policymakers and health care leaders to improve patient safety. This year, “Improving diagnosis for patient safety”, seeks to emphasise the critical importance of correct and timely diagnosis in ensuring a patient’s [...]
The Chair of the Health Innovation Network has responded to Lord Darzi’s Independent Investigation of the NHS in England. Richard Stubbs, Chair of the Health Innovation Network, said: “This report identifies and recognises the challenging context that the NHS workforce operates in day in, day out. It exposes some of the difficulties that patients experience [...]
Pete Waddingham, the Health Innovation Network's Net Zero Lead, discusses how we're supporting a Net Zero NHS through innovation, and its potential to reduce demand. We all know climate change contributes to poor health, with air pollution linked to a number of health conditions including cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease and cancer. We also know it’s [...]
Join us on 24 and 25 September at HETT Show London 2024 to find out how the Health Innovation Network can support your innovation to go further, faster. Here’s what we’ll be offering on our stand: Advice from our experts Experts from across the 15 local Health Innovation Networks will be on hand at the [...]
We are delighted that two Health Innovation Networks have been shortlisted in the 2024 Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards. This is in addition to the two networks that were shortlisted in the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Patient Safety Awards earlier this year. The awards shine a light on the outstanding efforts and achievements that teams [...]
Karina Malhotra (pictured on the right) is the Founder and Managing Director of Acumentice - a healthcare improvement consultancy. Karina’s background is in the NHS, with operational leadership roles in NHS Trusts across London. Her product, Evolve Learning, provides targeted learning and development for staff in the NHS. It’s delivered on an e-learning platform, in [...]
As a Network, we are committed to supporting the transformation of care pathways through adopting and scaling innovations equitably, ensuring that no one is excluded when trying to access services and/or suffers poorer clinical outcomes as a result of innovation. We align our programmes to NHS England’s Core20PLUS5 framework and prioritise supporting innovations that [...]
At the Health Innovation Network we have always had a dual focus on improving both the health and wealth of the nation and have demonstrated the huge contribution that the health and life sciences industry can make to economic growth. Since 2018, our support to innovators has leveraged £2.6 billion for the UK economy. We're [...]
Across England we’re supporting local systems to implement Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions that are improving productivity and efficiency – whether that’s through releasing clinician time, improving patient care or reducing waiting lists. We asked our Clinical Directors from across the Network to share their insights into what they believe the opportunities and risks of AI [...]
There is a wealth of HealthTech innovators poised to help solve some of the NHS’ greatest challenges, yet getting a product or new technology adopted at scale in the NHS is far from straightforward. In a recent ABHI member’s survey*, procurement was cited as one of the biggest barriers that innovators face, particularly those from [...]
Ambitious innovation is a team game and, as a Network, our best work has been delivered in partnership with a coalition of expertise from across the innovation ecosystem. One such partnership, is our collaborative working agreement with the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE). We both want to see the most clinically and [...]
Last week, over the course of two fantastic days hosting the Innovation Zone at NHS ConfedExpo 2024 in Manchester, we showcased some of the brightest innovators helping to tackle some of the NHS’ biggest challenges, met health and care teams looking for innovative solutions to their individual problems, and housed thought-provoking discussions on everything from [...]
Join us in Manchester on the 12 and 13 June to learn about the latest advancements in healthcare innovation and find out how you can get support with your local innovation needs from experts across the Health Innovation Network. Meet the innovators and our partners Come and find out about some of the brilliant innovators [...]
Experts from the Health Innovation Network will be on hand at NHS ConfedExpo to provide advice and support for anyone looking to understand more about how to develop, build, and scale innovations within the NHS. Whether you work in the NHS and have a challenge which you need help to solve, or are an innovator [...]
On Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 June we are hosting the NHS ConfedExpo at Manchester Central, where we will be joined by a host of Network-supported innovators. Find out more about some of the innovators who will be presenting on the stand: The Virtual Hippo A virtual reality 10-minute experience, co-created by the University of [...]
Tellmi is a social enterprise innovation which aims to address the growing demand for mental health services and tackle health inequalities for young people. It is a digital peer support app available launched in 2017 by psychologist Suzi Godson PhD and engineer Kerstyn Comley PhD. Kersytn explains how Tellmi works. Tell us about the innovation. [...]
The NHS is facing record demand for services. According to The Health Foundation, the NHS waiting list for elective treatment in England has almost tripled in size over the last decade to 7.7 million. And latest figures show there were a record 2.35 million attendances at A&E across England in March this year. We know [...]
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) has revealed its 2024 cohort of Fellows. The group of innovators represents a diverse range of health and social care solutions poised to revolutionise patient care and drive positive change across the NHS and wider healthcare landscape. The NIA is an award-winning NHS England initiative, working to support NHS Long [...]
The work of three local health innovation networks has been celebrated at the 2024 Health Service Journal (HSJ) Partnership awards. The annual awards ceremony recognises the most effective collaborations in healthcare, with partnership working hailed as a key success factor in the sustainability for the future of the NHS. Health Innovation West of England [...]
“Health equity is the attainment of the highest level of health for ALL people. Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and social determinants of health — and to eliminate disparities in health and health care.” (health.gov) Within the NHS there [...]
In recent years, a spotlight has been shone on the health gender gap. Although women in the UK on average live longer than men, women spend a significantly greater proportion of their lives in ill health and disability when compared with men*. Women are routinely underrepresented in clinical trials, and medical research proposed by women for women [...]
The Health Innovation Network is passionate about the role of innovation in tackling health inequalities. These disparities, which are deeply rooted in factors like employment, ethnicity, locality, gender, disability, and housing, continue to hinder equitable access to healthcare and impact life expectancy. Digital solutions have the power to bridge gaps in health inequality. We’re proud [...]
The role of health innovation in tackling health inequalities will be the focus for the Health Innovation Network at this year’s Healthcare Excellence Through Technology (HETT) North 2024. HETT North 2024, held at Manchester Central on Wednesday 28 February, will explore the systems and infrastructure that underpin and enable a data-driven NHS, supporting the ecosystem [...]
SBRI Healthcare, an Accelerated Access Collaborative initiative, in partnership with the Health Innovation Network, has awarded £2.5m to five innovative companies helping to narrow inequalities in maternity care, including Latchaid and The Real Birth Company. Latchaid, an innovator supported by Health Innovation West of England, received £500,000 for Anya, a smart, scalable, and accessible solution for [...]
