ORCHA – one of the innovations currently supported by the NHS Innovation Accelerator – is conducting research to determine the factors likely to drive the utilisation of digital health. With the evaluation of digital health technologies now much more transparent following the publication of the NICE evidence framework, and the demand for health-apps from patientsRead more
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Date: 22nd – 23rd May Location: The King’s Fund, London W1G 0AN The NHS Innovation Accelerator is once again supporting The King’s Fund Digital Health and Care Congress, which takes place in May. This annual event brings together leading NHS and social care professionals who are all interested in how data and technology can improveRead more
Are you passionate about improving patient outcomes? Do new approaches to care and healthtech excite you? If so, the NHS Innovation Accelerator needs you! The award-winning NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is now recruiting a patient/carer representative to join its Board. The Board meets quarterly and provides leadership and oversight to the NIA which is anRead more
The Health Foundation has launched the third round of its Advancing Applied Analytics programme. £750,000 of funding is available to support up to 12 projects across the UK that can demonstrate how they will improve analytical capability in support of health and care services and provide lessons for the wider care system. The deadline forRead more
NHS England, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) and the AHSN Network have joined forces to launch an ambitious new programme, connecting digital health innovators with pharmaceutical companies to explore new innovations that could help people living with diabetes. Launched today (4 October 2018), the Diabetes Hothouse is the first initiative arising fromRead more
A NEW search for the world’s best healthcare innovations to help improve patients’ lives launches today, focusing on key NHS priorities including mental health, primary care, and prevention and early intervention in cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is now recruiting up to 12 Fellows representing high-impact, evidence-based innovations, sourced nationally andRead more
NHS England has launched a national conversation to help shape the next ten years of the NHS. Feedback, comments and suggestions are being invited by 30th September on a series of themes that will form the new ‘Long Term Plan’. NHS staff, people working across social care and public health, healthcare companies, patients and carersRead more
The Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) is offering UK companies the opportunity to take part in a number of US-based activities designed to help them access the US market. Having already established a strong network of relationships across Texas, the UK’s largest health technology trade association is continuing to develop networks and connections withRead more
NHS England is offering community grants of up to £2,500 to voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations that have developed good practice around patient and citizen involvement in healthcare. The purpose of the grant is to enable organisations to share their good practice so that others can learn from the involvement successes. The communityRead more
The team at Outcomes Based Healthcare (OBH) has launched HealthSpan: measuring how long people remain in good health. HealthSpan is a core measure for prevention that has the power to support a sustainable health system in the future. The population-level measure identifies how long a population remains in good health, without a significant long-term conditionRead more
