22 January 2025
Health Innovation Wessex (HIW) is supporting this year’s Clean Air Night campaign. Nikki King, Innovation Adoption Programme Manager, leads on environmental sustainability at HIW to support the NHS’ ambition to reduce its environmental impact and become the world’s first net zero national health service. Environmental sustainability i... Read more >
20 January 2025
Nicola Bent, Chief Executive Officer at Health Innovation Wessex, discusses the role of appetite and risk in how health and care systems adopt innovation: Earlier this month, Sir Keir Starmer outlined his vision for transforming the NHS, stating “we need an NHS hungry for innovation”. As a part of the Health Innovation Network, I welcome the new... Read more >
16 January 2025
In 2024, Health Innovation Wessex made significant strides in helping our partner organisations to improve health outcomes, in fostering innovation, and in driving economic growth in the life sciences and healthcare sector both locally and nationally. As a result of our support to adopt and evaluate new technology and ideas, NHS organisations ha... Read more >
13 January 2025
As I reflect on my first year as Chief Executive of Health Innovation Wessex, I am filled with gratitude having worked alongside dedicated colleagues and collaborated closely with our trusted partners. It is this commitment to enhancing patient care through innovation that has enabled us to overcome challenges, celebrate milestones and buil... Read more >
18 December 2024
We are pleased to announce that applications to join the University Southampton Science Park’s prestigious Catalyst business accelerator programme have now opened. We joined the Catalyst partnership earlier this year, along with the National Oceanographic Centre and the University of Southampton’s School of Healthcare Enterprise and Innovat... Read more >
5 December 2024
In 2023-24, as a Network, we delivered national programmes and initiatives that benefited over 1,228,000 patients, created wealth and health by leveraging £467m through our support to innovators, and worked alongside health and care teams to tackle some of the NHS’s most pressing challenges including cardiovascular disease, patient safety and he... Read more >
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Shining a light on the impact of wood burning on air pollution and its effect on our health
Health Innovation Wessex (HIW) is supporting this year’s Clean Air Night campaign. &nbs...
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