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A project to improve maternity and neonatal services in the North West Coast has potentially saved up to 102 lives.

Professor Rowan Pritchard Jones, decided he needed to take action to help treat patients with traumatic burns injuries more safely: by automating the calculation of fluid balance requirements for burns victims, which is critical to survival.

Health Innovation North West Coast was a delivery partner in a pilot Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst accelerator programme.

A programme to reduce the avoidable harm caused by opioids is now on a firm footing in the North West Coast.

Clinicians in Cheshire and Merseyside have collaborated on a new lipid management pathway aimed at improving outcomes for people with cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Health Innovation North West Coast is backing a programme to support innovators working at the forefront of mental health therapeutics

A recent report demonstrates the acceptance of “real world” data from health care settings and the impact on patients being used to inform academic research. 

This research project looked at neonatal outreach services across the North West. Insights from this study can help inform the creation of new neonatal outreach services, or improve existing services, both locally and nationally. Project was a collaboration with NIHR ARC NWC, Health Innovation North West Coast and the North West Neonatal Operational Delivery Network.

Single-use gowns are one of the most carbon-intensive PPE items, with considerable opportunity to realise both carbon and financial savings through increased uptake of reusable gowns. 

Health Innovation North West Coast and partners have created a toolkit to help teams mitigate the impact of fuel poverty on vulnerable people.