News and blogs
“Real world validation” being validated by the academic community
6 February 2024A recent report demonstrates the acceptance of “real world” data from health care settings and the impact on patients being used to inform academic research.
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Supporting late preterm babies to go home earlier
1 February 2024This 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.
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The benefits of switching from single-use to reusable surgical and isolation gowns
24 January 2024Single-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.
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Toolkit unveiled to tackle fuel poverty
19 January 2024Health Innovation North West Coast and partners have created a toolkit to help teams mitigate the impact of fuel poverty on vulnerable people.
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What the natural world can teach us about systems thinking
18 January 2024If 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.
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Incubating new AI ideas in Cheshire and Merseyside to improve health care delivery
5 December 2023C2-Ai and Health Innovation NWC's collaboration with Cheshire and Merseyside ICB continues to grow from strength to strength.
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Driving successful innovation rollout
30 November 2023A new guide to innovation implementation, readiness and resourcing has been published today sharing practical learning from the Health Innovation Network’s successful adoption and spread of the national Focus ADHD programme.
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Senior NHS leader takes innovation Chair role
23 November 2023A senior leader with 38 years’ experience in the NHS has taken over as Chair of Health Innovation North West Coast.
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Simple AI tools help save money and reduce waiting lists in Lancashire and South Cumbria
8 November 2023ChatBot is saving money and reducing waiting lists for patients waiting for surgery in Lancashire and South Cumbria says an evaluation report with Health Innovation North West Coast.
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Successes of the MatNeo collaboration in the North West
6 November 2023A 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.
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