• Tackling cardiovascular health must be at the heart of ‘shifting’ NHS care

    Health Secretary Wes Streeting has outlined three strategic shifts for the NHS: transitioning from analogue to digital, moving care from hospitals to communities, and prioritising prevention over treatment. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) presents a significant opportunity to drive these changes, benefiting both public health and the economy.  CVD is arguably the big-ticket item for delivering on [...]

  • Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme: Impact and learning report

    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 [...]

  • Network welcomes Dr Dominique Allwood

    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 [...]

  • Network success at 2024 HSJ awards

    Congratulations to Health Innovation East who won the Digitising Patient Care Award at the 2024 Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards.   Health Innovation East and East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) were crowned winners of the award for their work supporting the adoption of Neu Health’s app which is revolutionising care for patients [...]

  • Meet the innovator: Angie Doshani

    Angie Doshani, is founder of JanamApp and Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. JanamApp is a ground-breaking solution addressing the disparities in pregnancy outcomes faced by South Asian women, who experience a 1.8 times higher risk compared to their white counterparts. The challenges of some women from this demographic include [...]

  • Health Innovation Network supports the sustaining of breakthrough ADHD diagnosis technology

    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 [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Meet the innovator: Rebecca Howard, ShinyMind

    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 [...]

  • Health Innovation Network supports NHS Confederation and ABPI guidance on effective NHS-Industry partnerships

    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 [...]