• A hunger for innovation must be matched with an appetite for risk

    Earlier this month, Sir Keir Starmer outlined his vision for transforming the NHS, stating “we need an NHS hungry for innovation”. As a part of the Health Innovation Network, I welcome the new Government’s focus on transformation, having seen first-hand the huge productivity and patient benefit gains of many innovations associated with the three shifts: [...]

  • How innovation can support the government’s ambition for health

    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 [...]

  • Prevention may be the cure, but innovation the best course of treatment

    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 [...]