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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
