The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) supports a breadth of innovations from a range of organisations (including from social enterprise, private and public sector). Some originate from “profit making” companies, others are not-for-profit. NIA Fellows developing spread and sustainability strategies for non-commercial innovations have highlighted a relative lack of support infrastructure when compared to that availableRead more
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At one of the NIA’s quarterly events, Fellow Charles MacKinnon presented on his approach to assessing whether potential customers are ready to adopt innovation. Here he shares how he uses a behaviour change model to identify opportunities that are most likely to lead to uptake. One would think that if you have a great innovationRead more
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is pleased to welcome three new mentors to the programme, offering a range of valuable expertise and insight to NIA Fellows: Arun Krishna, Nicholas Ibery and Robert P Mollen.
Px, a digital health company dedicated to improving cancer outcomes and the developer of NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) innovation OWise, has received a significant investment boost from one of Europe’s most successful fintech entrepreneurs. The funding will allow for the significant development of OWise, a mobile cancer patient support platform which improves people’s experience ofRead more
Dr Maryanne Mariyaselvam has been awarded the British Empire Medal for services to healthcare as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019. The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) Alumni has developed a number of devices to improve patient safety, including the Non-Injectable Arterial Connector and the WireSafe. Maryanne is Clinical Research Fellow at the Queen ElizabethRead more
Brush DJ, developed by NHS Innovation Accelerator Alumni and dentist Ben Underwood, has won funding support from Health Innovation Manchester’s Momentum Fund to improve children’s oral health. In Greater Manchester, £6 million is spent extracting multiple decayed teeth in children every year. Seven of the area’s 10 localities are included in those with the poorest children’sRead more
One of the most frequent queries the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) Team is asked by entrepreneurs and innovators is how to best engage with commissioners and CCGs. We asked two of our CCG colleagues for their insights… George Absi Self Care Implementation Lead North West London Collaboration of CCGs “I think that it is reallyRead more
South West AHSN’s new Spread Academy is helping to equip NHS leaders with the skills to spread change in complex systems to improve patient care. Here, they describe some of the learnings from their first academy held in March 2019. As The Health Foundation recently put it, when it comes to spreading innovation in healthRead more
NHS Innovation Accelerator Alumni, Dharmesh Kapoor, reflects on the challenges of achieving sustained adoption in the NHS through his ongoing journey with patient safety innovation, EPISCISSORS-60. “I was delighted when EPISCISSORS-60 was selected for the first ever cohort of the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) in the summer of 2015. It was a great moment toRead more
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is pleased to announce that Fiona Bride, Director of Market Access at Novartis, will join its pool of Mentors, offering support to NIA Fellows. Fiona joined Novartis in 2012 and has spent the last six years in Market Access (MAx). Passionate about optimising access for patients through innovation, Fiona andRead more
