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Businesses eager to get their innovation into the health and care sector will be able to put their questions to NHS Buyers and Local Authorities in the North West as the “Ask the Buyer” event returns.

The Innovation Agency and fellow Academic Health Science Networks have been highlighted as key players in speeding up the adoption of innovations in the NHS.

Seeing the natural environment as a crucial source of wellbeing is something that we all intuitively know; we all feel better from a walk in the park or round a lake... and yet this is still an area of innovation for the health service.

A product design company in Chester has been awarded funding to develop a voice-operated app to treat anxiety in young people. 

The Innovation Agency is looking for volunteers in Lancashire and South Cumbria to get involved in health innovation in the region.

The Connected Health Cities (CHC) programme, led in the North West Coast by the Innovation Agency, has been named Healthcare Project of the Year at the 2018 Bionow Awards.

A campaign using the power of Rugby League to help reduce pressures on A&E departments has been named Best Primary Care Innovation at the 2018 HSJ Awards.

A digital story on ECO 16: Digital Health in the North.

Another year has rolled around and an invite once again popped into my inbox during the summer to help judge the prestigious HSJ Awards.

Last year as a first-time judge I received a fascinating insight into some of the fantastic innovations that had been developed and were being evidenced up and down the country – from large industry players with ever more integrated and intelligent image management and diagnosis solutions, to handheld 3D laser wound scanning, pressure ulcer early detection and Urolift from the NHS Innovation and Technology Tariff programme.

Liverpool is leading the way in the use of smartphone technology to deliver and monitor better quality care in people’s homes.