NHS trusts have been selected to join the NHS InSites programme, which focuses on testing innovations in real-world settings, using a testing and evaluation model “co-developed by the participating Innovation Sites (InSites)”, along with NHS England, and Mid and South Essex ICS, who host the programme’s management office and coordination hub.
The InSites programme sets out five key aims, including evaluating and generating evidence for innovations, developing organisational capability and infrastructure of participating sites, and supporting the development of an NHS innovation culture and talent pool.
The first year of the programme included Birmingham Women’s and Children’s, Bradford Teaching Hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, East of England Ambulance Service, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Mid and South Essex ICS, Milton Keynes University Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals, Northumbria Healthcare, and Torbay & South Devon.
Innovations from the first year cohort included the use of AI to predict non-attendance to outpatient clinics, and a virtual reality platform to support children undergoing procedures and their families.
This year the new sites are Alder Hey Children’s, Buckinghamshire Healthcare, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Gloucester Hospitals, Guy’s and St Thomas’, Kings College Hospital, Norfolk and Waveney ICB, and the North West Ambulance Service.
To find out more about the InSites programme, please click here.
Elsewhere on innovation, SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) Healthcare, in collaboration with the Greener NHS programme and the Health Innovation Network, has awarded £3.2 million to 22 innovations designed to help “improve care and accelerate a greener NHS”.
Health Innovation Manchester has published a new three-year strategy, outlining priorities for delivering innovation across Greater Manchester, focusing on optimising digital and data products, integrated collaboration, and enhancing the region’s ability to deliver innovation in health.
