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When we think about innovation it’s easy to concentrate on cutting edge technologies like VR, gene therapies or Tesla cars, but what does innovation look like when the resource is people rather than technology?

It is a time of expansion for the Innovation Agency, which befits springtime as we see the first shoots of the new season. 

This is the second year of the drive to identify and fast track specific innovations into the NHS, which has already benefitted 75,000 patients nationally.

Health care professionals, academics and innovators from HELIUM, a European partnership working on innovative solutions to health care problems, visited Liverpool to explore best practice – and were inspired to replicate the Innovation Agency’s Innovation Scout programme.

Patients are being offered video consultations instead of outpatient appointments in a number of clinics at Whiston Hospital.

Congratulations to all winners and finalists in the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards 2018.

Celebrating Investors in People Gold Award – for a second time.

A showcase of health innovations from software and sensors to robots and virtual reality is taking place in Merseyside on 2 May.

Innovative technology is being introduced across Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire and south Cumbria to prevent strokes and save lives.

A director from NHS Digital has joined the Innovation Agency to lead on plans to create a digital health partnership across the North of England.