On 14 September 2020, the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) hosted a webinar featuring an introduction by Hilary Tovey, NHS England NHS Improvement Deputy Head of Mental Health and Programme Lead of the Digital Mental Health Programme, and several NIA Fellows speaking to their learning from working in mental health through COVID-19. During the session,Read more
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East Midlands Academic Health Science Network (EMAHSN) has published an evaluation of Dip.io’s urinary tract infection (UTI) digital pathway demonstrator, which shows positive outcomes for women seeking treatment for a UTI. Dip.io was selected to join the NIA in 2017. The below was originally published by EMAHSN. In July 2019, East Midlands AHSN collaborated withRead more
NIA Fellow Ranjit Manchanda (2019) recently published an international study on broadening cancer BRCA gene testing to entire populations, which showed it is cost effective and could prevent millions more cancer cases worldwide. Read an overview of the paper below and find the full text, published in Cancers, here. Screening entire populations for breast andRead more
2020 NIA innovation Locum’s Nest recently launched 4 new products! Locum’s Nest has announced the NHS’s first total workforce solution for temporary staffing within hospital Trusts and General Practice. The company believes this move will radically transform temporary staffing management and help ensure it reaches its new target of saving the NHS £1.5 billion duringRead more
NIA Alumna Bernadette Porter MBE, CEO of NeuroResponse, shares her reflections on responding innovatively to the COVID-19 crisis. NeuroResponse rapidly created a new @home service for monitoring blood for people with MS to ensure patients continued to receive the care they needed. This blog was originally published by UCLPartners. At the end of April duringRead more
NIA Fellow and co-founder of the UK’s fastest growing digital pharmacy Echo, Stephen Bourke has spent his time during the COVID-19 lockdown thinking about his customers. Realising that HealthTech founders tend to be 30 to 40 years younger than the patients they serve, he explains below why innovators should use this experience to gain aRead more
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is excited to welcome 3 new Mentors to our existing group of high-profile specialists providing bespoke support to Fellows. Bobby Kaura is involved in seed investment and International development of Illumina Accelerator Cambridge. He advocates for building ecosystems that support better population and patient outcomes with partners involved in drivingRead more
*UPDATE*: We are pleased to announce that 2 of the innovations on the NIA – RIX Wiki (Andy Minnion, NIA 2020) and Virti (Alex Young, NIA 2019) – were selected as winning solutions for Techforce19. For the full list of winners, visit here. People confined at home because of Coronavirus (COVID-19) could soon benefit fromRead more
11 new innovators tapped to transform England’s NHS through national acceleration The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) has announced today the 11 high impact innovations joining the national accelerator in 2020. At a launch event in London chaired by Professor Tony Young, National Clinical Lead for Innovation for NHS England and NHS Improvement, the 2020Read more
The NHS Innovation Accelerator recognises our 2016 Fellows as they become Alumni this month, marking the culmination of their three years on the programme. During this period, these 8 individuals have made significant progress in scaling their innovations and each has contributed valuable insights into the spread and adoption of innovation in the NHS. TheseRead more
