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A message from our Chief Executive
The close of the financial year offers a valuable opportunity to reflect on the breadth and depth the work Health Innovation East has carried out - driving the adoption and spread of innovation over the past 12 months. While much of this work will be celebrated in our upcoming Impact Review, in advance of that publication I am delighted to share a selection of key milestones here.
The Eastern England Secure Data Environment (SDE) formally launched as a single, unified research platform, bringing together the East of England and East Midlands SDEs to form one of the largest regional health data research initiatives in England. The launch event celebrated the vision and build of the service designed to give approved researchers and innovators safer, faster access to de-identified NHS data to enable world-class health research. This data infrastructure strengthens regional capabilities and forges a single, trusted route for research and innovation that will benefit patients and populations.
March saw the conclusion of the Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP), a collaborative programme between NHS England, the National Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Programme and the Health Innovation Network to improve patient access to proven innovations in underserved populations. In the East of England, projects have included improving access to bowel cancer screening; improving care and treatment for patients with heart failure; and aiding in the diagnosis of asthma in children and young people. Since its launch, over 5,000 people from underserved groups or deprived areas in the East of England have benefited.
In wider sector news, we were pleased to see the publication of the National Cancer Plan position advances in life science and innovation as the engine of transformation, specifically looking to advances in genomics, predictive analytics and digital therapeutics as opportunities to reshape what is possible in cancer care. The Renewed Women’s Health Strategy, published this week, similarly looks to innovation and transformation as levers of change drive greater gender equity in prevention, service access and treatment outcomes.
We are committed to continuing to work in partnership to implement the most promising innovations for the people, places and problems where they bring most benefit, and we have lots of exciting plans for this new financial year.
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Piers Ricketts Chief Executive | |
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Health Data for Discovery - the launch of the Eastern England Secure Data Environment (SDE) | |
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The Eastern England Secure Data Environment (SDE) has formally launched as a unified regional research platform, bringing together the East of England and East Midlands SDEs.
Funded by NHS England and hosted by Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the SDE provides a safe platform to allow approved researchers and innovators with faster access to de‑identified NHS data covering a population of almost 12 million people. Built to the highest security standards and shaped by public involvement, the platform supports clinical research, cohort discovery and life sciences innovation helping improve patient outcomes while maintaining trust and transparency.
The launch represents more than a change in scale. It creates a new route for researchers and life sciences companies to identify patient cohorts and run studies using NHS data.
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Towards a space enabled region | |
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Health Innovation East and Space East have published a new report, Towards a Space-Enabled Region: strengthening health and care delivery in the East of England, setting out how space-enabled technologies can address pressing health and care challenges across the region.
Priority recommendations to enable the move from isolated pilots to a coordinated regional approach include a focus high-value regional challenges, using connectivity as a foundational enabler and establish the East of England as a testbed for space-enabled health and care innovation. | |
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Martha's Rule in action - Daniel's story | |
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Martha’s Rule is a patient safety initiative empowering patients, families and carers to raise concerns if their loved one’s condition is getting worse and their concerns are not being responded to. It is also for staff to ask for a review if they are concerned a patient is deteriorating, and they are not being responded to.
In this story, Daniel’s family share their experience of calling Martha’s Rule into action and how it is helping to shape their hospital experience now and in the future. | |
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Gamified learning tool promoting Antimicrobial Stewardship | |
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Health Innovation East collaborated with the NHS England East of England Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) team to develop a virtual escape room promoting AMS awareness and education among prescribers and healthcare professionals.
Analysis found statistically significant increases in participant knowledge and understand of AMS principles and confidence in applying them after the training. The game received an engagement score of nine out of ten. | |
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From Evidence to Impact – Knowledge Mobilisation in Practice | |
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High-quality research continues to generate new insights into the challenges and opportunities facing our health and care system. Yet the path to achieving real-world change is rarely straightforward.
In this blog, we offer five key considerations to support researchers in ensuring their work achieves sustained impact | |
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Navigating the NHS landscape toolkit
A practical guide to help you cut through complexity and confidently work with the NHS. It’s designed to unpack key structures, functions and language you’ll encounter when developing, pitching or implementing innovations within the health and care system.
| | Health economics and evaluation toolkit
Health economic evaluations are can help quantify the costs and benefits of health technologies and procedures. This resources helps you determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of your innovation, and how to identify the most compelling metrics when presenting to decision-makers.
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Finance and economic growth toolkit
Learn about grant funding and the funding landscape for innovators and researchers. This toolkit includes an introduction to NHS finance, how to identify what funding streams you can access and upcoming opportunities.
| | Value proposition toolkit
A key resource describing, market needs, robust evidence reviews, stakeholder research, insight and strategy. It supports innovators to translate their innovation into a clear value-based solution to meet an unmet need.
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