Evidence is just one of a number of elements that helps to ‘de-risk’ an innovation and accelerate its adoption and spread. But as Dr Amanda Begley, National Director for the NHS Innovation Accelerator explains, there are a range of assurances and mitigations which can support and speed up successful implementation. At the NHS Innovation AcceleratorRead more
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The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is pleased to announce that Professor Sudhesh Kumar, Dean of the Warwick Medical School and Director of the Institute of Digital Healthcare at University of Warwick, will join its pool of Mentors, offering support to NIA Fellows. Professor Kumar is a clinical endocrinologist by background, with 22 years’ experience asRead more
The complexities and challenges around intellectual property (IP) are well-recognised by clinician entrepreneurs as a major barrier to the development, adoption and spread of innovation in the NHS. Peter Young, NIA Fellow and a Consultant in Anesthesia and Critical Care, shares his thoughts on how IP could enable rather than hinder. The UK is recognisedRead 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
ESCAPE-pain – an award-winning model of care for the management of chronic joint pain – is now available online to help ease the suffering of thousands of people across the country. Chronic joint pain, or osteoarthritis, affects over 8.75 million people in the UK, including half the population over the age of 75, and oneRead 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
John Craig, Chief Executive of Care City Test Bed, highlights the successes of ‘combinatorial innovation’ and why collaboration is king when it comes to embedding new technologies and services into whole systems and pathways. You cannot admit to many people that you are obsessed with public sector innovation before one tells you, ‘it’s a contradictionRead more
Debbie Wake, NIA Fellow, CEO and Co-Founder of MyWay Digital Health, offers food for thought for innovators and academics looking to form a ‘spin-out’ company, describing the advantages and challenges she’s experienced on her innovation journey. The UK is said to be excellent at developing IP-intensive technologies but not as good at commercialising them. TheRead more
Robert Berry, Head of Innovation at Kent, Surrey, Sussex Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) reflects on the crucial difference between ‘cost effective’ and ‘affordable.’ Andrew Dillon, CEO of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), recently highlighted the difference between ‘cost effective’ and ‘affordable’: “Something being cost-effective is not the same as beingRead more
