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The shortlist has been announced for this year’s NHS in the North Excellence in Supply Awards, celebrating inspirational examples of businesses, third sector organisations and the NHS working together to improve patient care and support health and care staff during COVID-19. 

A study by Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service shows that a joint campaign with the Innovation Agency has potentially prevented up to 12 strokes and saved the NHS around half a million pounds in gross treatment costs.

An innovative Lancashire-based project to make employees’ lives healthier has received national funding.

A webinar organised by the Innovation Agency to explore the pros and cons of using online video platform Attend Anywhere led to the compilation of ‘top tips’ from our speakers.

The Innovation Agency’s Chief Executive Dr Liz Mear is moving to a new role as managing director of Leeds Academic Health Partnership, one of the biggest of its kind in the UK.

As a supervisor for Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, I normally help residents with their council tax and benefits enquiries in person or over the phone at our contact centre based in the old town hall.

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Personal stories told to the Innovation Agency about switching to digital ways of working in the eye of the COVID-19 storm reveal ingenuity, flexibility – and pride.

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As a consultant dermatologist I was already interested in innovation but the sudden onset of COVID-19 made it happen sooner rather than later.

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After receiving SBRI funding we have been working for the last 18 months on a laparoscopic simulator, the  LapAR™, which combines a box trainer set with the high fidelity of a virtual reality system, it is completely unique.

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Liverpool is unique for neonatal services because babies are born in one hospital, Liverpool Women’s, but if they need specialist services those are provided in a different hospital, Alder Hey. We have been working to develop a neonatal unit on the Alder Hey site for the last several years with a plan to open the unit in 2022/3.

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