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A message from our CEO
The weeks just before the summer holidays produced some notable publications and events in health and care, and in healthcare innovation in particular. Now that we’re well and truly into the usual Autumn calendar of planning deadlines and external events, we thought it would be helpful to provide a round-up.
Many of our NHS colleagues are facing a period of considerable uncertainty from the forthcoming Department of Health and Social Care/ NHS England merger, the big restructuring processes impacting on ICBs and the cost savings targets facing providers. It is at times like this that innovation and transformation are most needed, but of course it is even more difficult to plan for future benefits when there is so much to do today. We are sensitive to the conflicting demands facing colleagues in the system and, as the local experts in implementing health innovation, we are as committed as ever to supporting you all through this period.
In July we had the privilege of leading a session of the East of England All-Party Parliamentary Group. The session was titled ‘Delivering health innovation and improvement in the East’. We were joined by over 115 partners from the NHS, local and national government and industry, alongside eight of the region’s MPs, who attended to hear the case for scaling innovation across our region, with the huge benefits that this would bring to population health, patient outcomes and NHS productivity. A full summary of the discussion is available on our website.
July also saw the publication of the government’s 10 Year Health Plan and the Life Sciences Sector Plan. These two strategies highlight the role that health innovation has in building a stronger, more future-focused NHS and the importance of the life sciences industry to the UK as a whole. We have also seen the announcement of the first beneficiaries under the national neighbourhood health implementation programme (a first step towards establishing specifically-funded local health and care schemes) and the announcement of the £85m 'Obesity Pathway Innovation Programme' – please get in touch with your usual contact if you require support with this.
This newsletter shares just some of the ways we have partnered with colleagues across the East of England to implement and scale innovation in health and care, and we included many more examples in our latest Impact Review (see below). Looking ahead more generally, we now await central guidance on how the big initiatives set out in the NHS Ten Year Plan will be delivered. Much of this will inevitably be the responsibility of local clinicians, managers and systems. We will continue to support health providers, NHS staff and the private sector to implement innovative ways to achieve the objectives of the Plan locally across the East of England.
I hope you enjoy reading our Autumn newsletter. Please don’t hesitate to reach out through your usual Health Innovation East contact if you would like to follow up on any of the stories featured.
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Piers Ricketts Chief Executive | |
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Our 2024-25 Impact Review is live.
Read how we have worked with our community to help the best innovations in health and care reach the people, places and problems where they bring most benefit.
Discover our impact from the last year. | |
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Newly released: National Impact Report | |
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Newly released: National Impact Report
In 2024/25, as a Network, we delivered national programmes that benefitted one million patients, leveraged almost £500m through our support to innovators, and created or safeguarded over 900 jobs.
Find out more about our collective impact from the last year in the latest national impact report. | |
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Healthcare innovations could boost UK economy by £278 billion
Commissioned by the Health Innovation Network, Defining the Size of the Health Innovation Prize, compiled by Frontier Economics, reports that innovations in healthcare could boost the UK's growth by unlocking £246 billion every year and help attract a further £32 billion in foreign direct investment.
| | Scale your innovation with the NHS Innovation Accelerator
Applications are now open for the 2026 NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellowship. The programme supports exceptional innovators with evidence-based solutions to spread nationally, offering tailored support, mentorship and access to a powerful network.
Find out more and apply by 12 October 2025. | | | |
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Evaluating PocDoc's Healthy Heart Checks in primary care
Health Innovation East partnered with Granta Primary Care to pilot and evaluate PocDoc's at-home finger-prick Healthy Heart Checks. This initiative explore whether these tests could offer a more accessible alternative to traditional blood tests for identifying cardiovascular risk. Discover how the Healthy Heart Checks supported at-home testing.
| | Improving diversity within NHS leadership roles
Following the success of the 2023 Maternity and Neonatal Leadership Development Programme, Health Innovation East led the expansion of the initiative to include a wider cohort of staff. The six-month programme aimed to increase ethnic minority representation at senior levels and ensure equitable access to leadership development opportunities.
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Evaluating the Cancer (P)rehab pathway in BLKM
Health Innovation East's real-world evaluation team worked with Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes ICB to understand the impact of their cancer (p)rehabilitation service.
| | Supporting safer care from the very beginning
Health Innovation East have been leading the delivery of a national Maternity and Neonatal Safety programme to ensure that every newborn baby is recognised and managed early for deterioration.
Read how the NEWTT2 framework is being used in postnatal care settings to support the care of at-risk newborns.
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Reshaping our ideas of leadership | |
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Health Innovation East staff share their reflections from the Routes mentoring programme, exploring what it means to them to be a leader. | |
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From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: enabling change | |
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Luke Natali, an advisor at Health Innovation East, walks us through an example of how our approach enables successful change initiatives in health and care systems. | |
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Top ten tips for conducting an evaluation | |
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Our real-world evaluation team shares their top ten tips, gathered from their own extensive experience conducting robust and rigorous evaluations. | |
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Insights to impact masterclass: Why good ideas fail - applying a behavioural science lens - 21 October | |
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Health Innovation East is excited to partner with Innovia Technology to bring you this unique, online event, focused on how behavioural science can help us better understand and overcome the real-world challenges of innovation adoption. | |
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Thank you for supporting us – great ideas only make a difference for our health when they are put into practice. | |
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