Blogs

As Children’s Mental Health Week 2025 gets under way, Alice Fletcher, our Programme Manager for Mental Health, describes our novel approach to improving services for children and young people in our region. You can read more in our Innovation Insights report: A Service Model for Children and Young People’s Mental Health.

There are a number of exciting companies in Estonia and Ireland that I met at a recent brokerage event, and I look forward to continuing discussions and exploring opportunities to collaborate.

Health Innovation North West Coast has captured some valuable insights from primary care staff, point of care leads and patients for a test and treat community pathway.

If you’re a bird, or an insect, or one of our native reptiles, you aren’t bothered where a boundary for one organisation ends and another begins.

A week of events is under way to raise the profile of a series of measures designed to boost outcomes in maternity services. Our programme manager Amanda Andrews describes the impact they have had.

We were delighted to open the new Cheshire and Merseyside Surgical Centre as a major step forward in addressing the backlog of surgery caused by the pandemic.

The Innovation Agency supports the development of many transformational and innovative solutions, often with the potential to address challenges faced by our local mental health system.

When I joined the maternity and neonatal safety improvement programme (MatNeoSIP) eighteen months ago, I was excited to be part of a collaborative programme that would support improvements across the North West Coast.

When I began this project to help implement the new Paediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) I had concerns that few would have the capacity to engage. How wrong I was. Within weeks all the teams really welcomed the idea of getting on board. 

One theme that keeps coming up is that of unwritten blanket rules. Those rules that have seemingly been around forever and nobody knows why they started but everyone adheres to them because they’re so embedded.