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As Education Programme Manager for Liverpool Health Partners, I have the privilege to work with some amazing healthcare professionals and educators and none more so than with the Genomics Team, which resulted in our winning the Transforming Healthcare category in the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards. 

Our agenda for the Innovation Show featuring; Dr Samantha Roberts, Director of Innovation and Life Sciences, NHS England; Sasha Karakusevic, NHS Horizons team; and Dr Matt Kearney, GP and National Clinical Director for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, NHS England and Public Health England

A team of volunteers has been recruited in Lancashire to help spot friends and relatives at risk of a stroke.

The Innovation Agency is recruiting to a number of posts to support businesses and healthcare by spreading evidence-based innovations.

Academic Health Science Networks are sponsoring a conference at The King’s Fund to explore how to overcome barriers to the spread of innovations.

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.