News and blogs
Citizens across the North invited to get moving and help heart research in UK digital health first
6 November 2017The Innovation Agency has teamed up with Connected Health Cities and Nokia to organise an eight-week step challenge across the North from 23 October to 21 December 2017
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Innovation in patient safety wins top NHS award
6 November 2017A company which designed a hygiene product for hospital patients now used worldwide has been named North West NHS Supplier of the Year.
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Know your pulse for Global AF Aware Week
1 November 2017The Innovation Agency is continuing its award-winning, life-saving work in preventing strokes by urging people to check their pulses during Global AF Aware Week (20 -26 November).
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Blog: Seven disruptive thoughts about Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS)
9 October 2017Technology Enabled Care Services (TECS) can save health and social care providers ‘shed loads’ of money and give peace of mind to users and their families.
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Blog: Why protecting data is essential for innovation
12 September 2017"I'm a Caldicott Guardian!" announced my new GP proudly on my first visit to his surgery. I had just moved to Manchester to take up my responsibilities as UK Information Commissioner.
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Blog: Turbo charging AHSNs to spread health innovations
24 July 2017Speeding up the spread of great innovations in the NHS is what we are all about in England’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs).
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Blog: Why do we need social legitimacy before introducing an innovation?
3 July 2017At the Innovation Agency, our purpose is to identify innovations which can improve health and create efficiencies – and help to spread them at pace and scale.
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