28 November 2024
Life sciences drives both health improvement and wealth creation across the UK, generating £108 billion in turnover in FY21/22. However, the follow-through to widespread adoption of health innovation remains variable despite the UK being the second largest global spender on health research and development.The Innovation Ecosystem Programme (IEP)... Read more >
27 November 2024
It is the biggest ever conversation about the future of the NHS, the consultation stage of the 10 Year Plan.It doesn’t matter whether you have a lot or a little to say, your views, experiences and ideas will help shape services for years to come.As patients, members of the public or frontline staff, there is a desire from policy-makers to hear e... Read more >
26 November 2024
Guest speakers from industry, research and the region’s NHS system were invited to showcase how digital technologies, advanced data analytics and artificial intelligence can enhance healthcare delivery and patient outcomes at a Health Innovation Wessex-convened strategic workshop.By addressing challenges such as interoperability and trust, and b... Read more >
22 November 2024
Health Innovation Wessex has joined three partners to help spark new opportunities for technology and innovation start-ups. Together with the National Oceanographic Centre and the University of Southampton’s School of Healthcare Enterprise and Innovation, HIW has joined Southampton Science Park’s Catalyst business accelerator programme.Cata... Read more >
13 November 2024
NHS England South East and the three health innovation networks within the region (Wessex, Oxford & Thames Valley, and Kent Surrey Sussex) hosted a series of online neurodiversity events in September, which focussed on demonstrating some of the innovations around autism and ADHD that are currently deployed nationally, internationally or that... Read more >
12 November 2024
A new knowledge mobilisation project has launched in Dorset aimed at transforming ways to promote healthy weight in children and young people.New government figures (2023-24) show that in Dorset, 22.4% of children in reception (aged 4-5 years) and 32.1% of children in year 6 (age 10-11 years) are overweight or living with obesity. Obesity in rec... Read more >
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World Patient Safety Day 2024 Improving diagnosis for patient safety – how is Health Innovation Wessex contributing?
This year’s theme from the World Health Organisation for World Patient Safety Day on 17 Sept...
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