12 February 2025
Health Innovation Wessex recently hosted its annual Maternity and Neonatal Learning Event held in person in Southampton on 11 February. The Patient Safety Collaborative brought together healthcare professionals from across the region to discuss crucial topics in maternity and neonatal care, including Perinatal Culture and Leadership, Preterm Opt... Read more >
11 February 2025
Interested in how we can help your organisation to adopt innovation and improve care? Contact us at enquiries@hiwessex.net or message us on LinkedIn. I have often thought about Billy Idol as I sat through meetings about transforming services and introducing new ways of working. Alongside the enthusiasm, passion and planning the capacity of ... Read more >
23 January 2025
The RAND Europe evaluation report for the Health Foundation Adopting Innovation Programme has been published, complementing our local evaluation of the Dorset Innovation Hub (DIH).The RAND report provides a range of insights for those involved in the impact of innovation adoption. The report describes the progress of the four local healthcare sy... Read more >
23 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 >
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 >
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 >
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“Should it stay or should it go?” Making space for innovation: De-implementing old ways of working
This blog, the third in our three-part series on supporting the adoption of innovation in co...
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