As the health and care industry increasingly embraces artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, it is crucial to ensure that these innovations are implemented with the utmost care and responsibility. Dr Hatim Abdulhussein, CEO at Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex, explores more in this blog. In the recent report from the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The report ‘Partnering for progress: A data-driven analysis of NHS-industry partnerships, published by The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) is welcomed by the Health Innovation Network – evidencing that partnership working can improve population health and enhance healthcare experiences. Using NHS and industry data, it aims to systematically measure how NHS-industry partnerships support [...]
Policy Connect and the Health Innovation Network hosted a parliamentary roundtable on Tuesday 10th September 2024, on navigating Data and Innovation in the NHS in the coming years. Chaired by Lord James Bethell, the roundtable featured a keynote speech from Minister in the Department of Health and Social Care, Baroness Gillian Merron, who reflected on [...]
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 [...]
