- NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
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The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (NHS Institute) is a special health authority of the National Health Service in England. It "supports the NHS to transform healthcare for patients and the public by rapidly developing and spreading new ways of working, new technology and world-class leadership"[1].
Its priority programmes were originally stated as:
- Safer care
- Quality and value
- Building capability
- Commissioning
- No delays
- The productive series
- Share and network
In its 2008/2009 work plan these have been restated as[2]:
- Safer care
- Delivering quality and value
- Commissioning for health improvement
- iLinks
- Building capability for a self-improving NHS
- Exploiting innovation - National Innovation Centre
The NHS Institute publishes papers on its research. These are not, however, publicly available without payment.
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NHS National Innovation Centre
The National Innovation Centre is part of the NHS Institute. Its aim is "to speed up the development of pre-commercial technologies likely to benefit the NHS"[3]. It invites proposals for conmercial or other innovation which may benefit the NHS and provides support to develop these where appropriate.
Innovation hubs
The NHS network of regional NHS Innovation Hubs have been set up to support NHS Trusts and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) identify and develop innovations that are in the interests of patients and society as a whole. They do this through the activities and services of the network and by adoption of the Department of Health (United Kingdom) Guidance. The Innovation Hubs offer legal and commercial support to NHS staff who have a pre-market product.
The NHS Innovation Hub Network work to fulfill the following functions:
- To build IP awareness in the Trusts
- To find and evaluate IP for the Trusts
- To protect and manage IP for the Trusts
- To assist and fund technology development
- To commercialise technology and products
- To facilitate the dissemination of service improvements
The NHS Innovation Hub network in England consist of the following organisations[4]:
- NHS Innovations East (Health Enterprise East)
- NHS Innovations East Midlands
- NHS Innovations London
- NHS Innovations North
- NHS Innovations North West (TrusTECH)
- NHS Innovations South East
- NHS Innovations South West
- NHS Innovations West Midlands (MidTECH)
- NHS Innovations Yorkshire and Humber (Medipex Ltd)
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