12 March 2024
Dr Richard Booth has been appointed as our new Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Director of Innovation Adoption.Richard’s extensive experiences at the forefront of healthcare innovation include establishing a deployment framework within a digital healthtech scale-up, guiding portfolio companies within a medtech investment business, national in... Read more >
23 February 2024
Real-World Evaluation Programme 2024/25 OverviewDo you want to understand the impact of an innovation? Health Innovation Wessex (HIW) is offering its evaluation expertise to deliver real-world evaluation for health and care organisations in Dorset and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Systems, and our university members. &nb... Read more >
21 December 2023
Health and care system leaders gathered at a workshop in November to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by delivery of the UK’s 2020 genomic strategy.The workshop, jointly hosted by Health Innovation Wessex (HIW), Wessex Health Partners (WHP), and the NHS Central and South Genomic Medicine Service Alliance, brought together more ... Read more >
21 December 2023
This week we said goodbye and thank you to our Chief Executive, Bill Gillespie, who retired after eight years with the network.Under Bill's leadership, we established a strong reputation for supporting health and care systems to drive the evaluation, adoption and spread of innovation.We're pleased to share that Nicola Bent, our Deputy Chief Exec... Read more >
19 December 2023
We were really pleased to see that the recent manifesto from Cancer Research UK ‘Longer, better lives: A manifesto for cancer research and care’ published on 28 November 2023, has highlighted the important role of health innovation networks in improving cancer care and outcomes. The manifesto sets out how the next UK government could improve can... Read more >
4 December 2023
A new guide to innovation implementation, readiness, and resourcing has been published, sharing practical learning from the Health Innovation Network’s successful adoption and spread of the national Focus ADHD programme.Despite the impact of the pandemic on non-emergency services, the three-year ADHD programme exceeded its targets and by June 20... Read more >
AHSN Blog
Needs Assessment Service: a collaboration between Health Innovation Wessex and Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria
In this blog, Ben Porter and Gemma Snell, Needs Assessment Leads for the NHS Innovation Serv...
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