Health Innovation North West Coast and fellow AHSNs are supporting a new national funding initiative led by the Health Foundation, to support healthcare provider organisations to adopt innovation faster.
The Adopting Innovation programme opens for expressions of interest on 7 October; it will help establish four innovation hubs across the UK – to be set up by provider organisations in collaboration with local health systems and AHSNs – with up to £475,000 funding per hub.
The Health Foundation programme supports the aims of the national NHS Reset Campaign, a partnership between NHS Confederation, the Health Foundation and AHSNs to bring together learning and feedback from around the country about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
COVID-19 highlights the importance of creating the conditions for innovations and technologies to be more rapidly embedded - and for health systems to be able to respond to constant change.
With this in mind the hubs will act as centres of expertise and support within provider organisations to build knowledge, skills and confidence to successfully adopt and adapt innovations in local health economies.
Innovation Agency Acting Chief Executive Dr Phil Jennings said: “Innovation has the power to unlock huge benefits for our health systems so we are delighted to support this Health Foundation initiative.”
More information on the programme:
- Expressions of interest open on Wednesday 7 October 2020. Sign up for updates via the Health Foundation website and from 16 October a recorded webinar will be available.
- Partnerships will be between NHS providers and local health systems within the UK (based within a provider organisation) to help establish centres of expertise on innovation adoption.
- Partnerships will be led by the provider organisations, which will be expected to demonstrate how they will work with local system partners – in England with their local Academic Health Science Network.
- Hubs will receive up to £475,000 over two and a half years, to add to their own in-kind contributions and funding.
- Hubs will be expected to build knowledge, skills and confidence in provider organisations and local systems, and to share wider learning of the organisational conditions that support the effective uptake of innovations. The programme will also offer opportunities for peer learning.
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