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 address health inequalities through our innovator support offer.
Digital innovation has a vital role to play in addressing unfair variation in access, experience and outcomes.
Leaders from across the northern health and care system, NHS England, health foundations and industry came together at HETT North earlier this year, in February, to explore the role of digital and data in addressing health inequalities – with the aim of sharing learnings and creating a list of recommendations that can be shared nationally.
We are pleased to publish the findings from this roundtable event: Forging a more equitable healthy future through digital and data: 6 recommendations to reduce health inequalities.
We are delighted to publish the Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP) impact and learning report. NHS England’s InHIP programme is a collaboration between the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC), NHS England’s National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme and the Health Innovation Network, delivered in partnership with integrated care systems (ICSs). It aims to address local healthcare [...]
Download our Impact Report In 2023-24, as a Network, we delivered national programmes and initiatives that benefitted over 1,228,000 patients, created wealth and health by leveraging £467m through our support to innovators, and worked alongside health and care teams to tackle some of the NHS’s most pressing challenges including cardiovascular disease, patient safety and [...]
We are delighted to welcome Dr Dominique Allwood as the new Chief Executive Officer for Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP). Dominique joins ICHP from neighbouring health innovation network UCLPartners, where she is currently Chief Medical Officer. Her focus is on clinical engagement across the partnership and with the Health Innovation Network Clinical Executives in her [...]
