The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is pleased to announce that Gary Gallen, CEO and founder of Hull-based law firm rradar, will join its pool of Mentors, offering support to NIA Fellows. Gary is a trusted legal advisor, technology innovator, and a disruptor of the legal market. Prior to the setting up of rradar, Gary hadRead more
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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
Date: Thursday 8th November 2018 Location: Mary Ward House, London The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is set to host its annual celebratory Summit on the 8th November at Mary Ward House in Central London. This invite-only event will share learning and insight on national uptake and spread of innovation from 2017 Fellows, in addition toRead more
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) has been selected as a finalist in the ITEC Awards 2018. Run by the TEC Services Association (TSA), the ITEC Awards are to be held at the prestigious gala dinner at this year’s International Technology Enabled Care conference on the evening of the 16th October 2018 at the ICC Birmingham.Read 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
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
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
