Are you ready to be a Fellow?
If your innovation can change lives and shape the future of health and care, now is your moment to step forward. Join a national network of Fellows driving real impact across the NHS.
Applications close on 12 October at 23:59.
Leveraging collective expertise to drive NHS-wide innovation and impact
Since 2015, the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) has helped scale over 100 evidence-based innovations across England, supporting the NHS to improve care quality, empower clinical teams, and achieve real operational efficiencies. These innovations have directly enhanced patient outcomes and service delivery. Funded by NHS England via the Accelerated Access Collaborative, and delivered by UCLPartners (UCLP), the NIA works through its Fellows and Alumni to embed inclusive, high-impact solutions that strengthen the NHS and drive a more responsive, innovative healthcare system.
Enabling innovation and impact through Access, Connections, and Learning
Access
For our healthcare colleagues, we provide access to unparalleled market intelligence about the innovations solving repeated problems in the NHS. And for innovators we use our influence and network to provide them with access to the support they need to navigate a fragmented healthcare system.
Connect
We always start with the problem and use our ability to connect commissioners with proven solutions, saving time and money for healthcare colleagues. Our delivery team will work with you to create clear and concise information briefings on your innovation to be shared across the system.
Learn
We focus on individual and organisational learning. We create the environment for our healthcare colleagues to learn about what innovations are having an impact in other areas of the NHS, while our Fellows benefit from a multi-faceted intensive support programme during their three-year fellowship.
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The NHS Innovation Accelerator supports exceptional individuals to drive real change and scale high-impact innovations with bespoke support, expert guidance and trusted NHS networks.
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Innovations driving NHS priorities
Discover a selection of impactful innovations from NIA Fellows that are transforming care, improving outcomes, and addressing key priorities of the NHS. These real-world solutions show what’s possible when innovation meets the needs of patients, staff, and systems.
Kidney Beam
LabCycle
Psyomics Platform
Ascelus
From Fellows to Frontline
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