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LCR Health Matters, a Liverpool-based health-tech business support programme, has helped to raise more than £21 million for life sciences businesses across Liverpool City Region.

The Innovation Agency, the Academic Science Network for the North West Coast, is delighted to announce that a project it has supported has been shortlisted in two categories at this year’s HSJ Patient Safety Awards.

Hello, my name is Mandy, and I am a biomedical scientist. In April 2020, a couple of weeks into lockdown, I was redeployed to a national COVID-19 operational supplies team, joining colleagues from NHS England and Improvement and the Department of Health and Social Care.

Three Liverpool project bids backed by the Innovation Agency have won funding to help integrate innovative health products into everyday practice.

Adopting and diffusing innovation across the system must form the foundation of a strategy to meet the demands we face as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The sun shone and dozens turned out to take up an opportunity to learn more about health and wellbeing at an event in south Cumbria supported by the Innovation Agency.

The HARRI (Health, Advice, Recovery, Resilience, Information) engagement vehicle visited Kendal on Thursday 27th May  giving residents and visitors the opportunity to speak to health, care and community professionals about their needs and find out more about services available.

NHS leader Sir James Mackey has been announced as keynote speaker at the NHS in the North Excellence in Supply Awards hosted by the NHS Northern Customer Board and the Innovation Agency.

A World Cup penalty shoot-out prompted a breakthrough in the care of patients in Lancashire who have lost the ability to speak.

Residents in Lancashire and South Cumbria have access to more help from their GP practice thanks to an expansion in specialist staff.

An awards event has been launched that will honour suppliers who have helped the NHS deliver great patient care.