Publications

Read our Annual Review for 2023 to 2024, featuring highlights of our projects to drive the adoption and spread of health and care innovations.

Read our annual review for 2022 to 2023, showing highlights of our activities and collaborative achievements.

The role of the Innovation Agency is to support the adoption and spread of innovations and improvements which are backed by evidence of impact on efficiency and quality of care.

Annual Review of 2021-2022: read about how we have supported our health and care system and our local economy in the past year.

Reflecting on a year like no other in health and care has been a time to re-evaluate our role in supporting our local systems, partners and national NHS commissioners.

After a year in which our business plan was put to one side as we reached out to support partners locally and nationally, we remain ready to adapt to whatever lies ahead.

Our business plan for 2020 to 2021 is written in summer 2020 as we continue to grapple with the challenges presented by COVID-19.

The Innovation Agency annual report for 2019-2020

This document refreshes the 2018/2020 Innovation Agency Business Plan.

Success stories and highlights from across the North West Coast

The Innovation Agency is supporting the adoption and spread of innovation and improvement in each of the two health and care partnerships in our region, Lancashire and South Cumbria; and Cheshire and Merseyside.

The Innovation Agency’s aim is to spread innovations which can improve the quality of health care and reduce costs. We act as honest brokers, mobilising expertise and knowledge across the NHS, academia and industry to help improve lives, save money and drive economic growth through innovation.