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Our Innovation Programme, based in Essex, ensures health entrepreneurs and innovators are provided with a supportive environment in which they are encouraged to:
Our innovation team support innovators through horizon scanning, innovation scouting activities and enabling bids for innovation funding.
Our innovation team has links with the Health Innovation Network in London and East of England, partner commissioning and provider organisations across the MSE ICS, Health Tech Enterprise, Industry, National innovation programmes and other experts needed to support the programme and the Fellows.
If you would like to get in contact with us, please email us at mse.innovation@nhs.net.
As a recent report from the NHS Confederation stressed, “for the NHS and the wider health and care system to survive and thrive for the benefit of its users, innovation at every stage and in every aspect is not only desirable, but necessary”.
NHS England is committed to supporting the adoption of innovation. It hosts the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) bringing together the key players in health research and innovation in the UK to support the uptake of proven innovation.
The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP) is an AAC programme which supports health and care staff to develop the commercial skills, knowledge and experience needed to successfully develop and spread innovation, for the benefit of patients, the public, and wider NHS. The programme offers a range of support including direct education, mentoring, networking, and access to exclusive opportunities, expertise, and resources.
In 2020, the NHS CEP was commissioned out to Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) with a commitment to expand the programme. This included recruiting 18 NHS partners to form a system capacity building pilot programme – now known as the NHS CEP InSites Pilot Programme. This testing and evaluation model was developed by Mid and South Essex (MSE) ICS, who are acting as the coordination hub for the NHS CEP InSites Programme.
In its first year, the programme led to 23 projects in evaluation or contracted projects with another 29 projects in initiation phase.
This collaborative and co-designed programme has four aims:
The 18 sites span across England and are working with the NHS CEP and AAC initiatives to align processes, share intelligence on implementation, build capability within their sites and test/evaluate innovations to meet the needs of their populations.
Key partners
18 Innovation Sites: 18 NHS sites across England have partnered together to design and deliver the first phase of the NHS CEP InSites Programme.
The original 10 innovation sites include:
The Year Two New Innovation Sites include:
If you have any questions about the programme, please contact the InSites Hub team, email mse.cepinsites@nhs.net.