NHS England has picked up the top award at the Digital Leaders 100 Awards 2015, which celebrated innovation and leadership in the digital world. The award for best health and social care product or service went to the Widening Digital Participation programme for their work, along with partners the Tinder Foundation, on improving the digital […]

The first centres to treat patients with stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR), as part of NHS England’s latest national evaluation programme, will be able to start accepting patients from today (Monday). NHS England has invested £15m over three years to assess the use of SABR through its Commissioning through Evaluation initiative, which will allow up to […]

A £30,000 international challenge prize – the first of its kind – is up for grabs to innovators or organisations who can publish or present data on obesity in a new, exciting and useful way. The challenge, to promote innovation in open data, is being carried out in both England and the US and will […]

NHS England is backing the development of a groundbreaking mobile diagnostics service that will deliver laboratory standard test results outside of hospital and allow patients to be diagnosed and treated at the point of care. The Labkit® Near Patient Diagnostics service is a portable bag containing devices capable of producing a range of patient test results […]

NHS Change Day 2015 is up and running and the pledges of support have been pouring in. A 12-hour Changeathon webcast is currently live and running from 7am to 7pm where individuals, teams and campaigns across the NHS are talking about what they are doing for Change Day. NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens describes […]

Thirteen enterprising projects to improve patient care have scooped an award and a share of £650,000 in the NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes. Winners, who got up to £100,000 each, included an SMS helpline for self-harm, a ‘microbiologist in a smartphone’, lessons on diabetes in the classroom and multi-lingual nurses in clinics. Fifty two of the […]

The countdown has begun to NHS Change Day 2015 on March 11. Chief Executive Simon Stevens made this year’s first pledge telling staff who gathered at Skipton House in London he would: “Help drive through change for people with learning disabilities”. He added: “I fully support this campaign which is a remarkable social movement for […]

Health innovators from home and abroad have just over two weeks left to apply to be part of the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme. NHS England in partnership with The Health Foundation and UCL Partners is inviting healthcare pioneers from around the world to apply to develop and scale their tried and tested innovations across the […]

Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England’s Medical Director, today launched the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme. Together with hosts UCLPartners and The Health Foundation, NHS England is inviting healthcare pioneers from around the world to apply to develop and scale their tried and tested innovations across parts of the NHS. The programme will focus on the conditions […]

Forty six NHS organisations have received a share of a £2.5m fund to help change patients’ lives and improve care through innovation. The winners of NHS England’s Regional Innovation Fund were announced today by Chief Executive, Simon Stevens at the Managers in Partnership Conference 2014. The £2.5m fund was launched in April to support and […]