Grants awarded for health innovation

AN organisation set up to promote innovation in the health service has awarded £1.1m to more than a dozen projects in the region.

The funding from The North West Coast Academic Health Science Network, will help applicants to develop and install infrastructure for the uptake of new systems and improve efficiency and innovation in health and social care delivery.
 
Successful applicants include: Alder Hey Children’s Hospital – which received the largest single amount, £280,000 – as well as Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust, the University of Cumbria, and South Ribble Partnership.
 
Dr Liz Mear, chief executive of the NWC AHSN, said: “This funding will help to put structures in place which will enable the implementation of initiatives which will have positive wide-reaching effects on how we deliver healthcare in the region.
 
“As we look forward to future models of healthcare, we need the infrastructure in place to support the uptake of the very best, most innovative products and systems, to ensure we’re reducing healthcare inequalities and offering the most advanced care possible.

“These schemes are part of our ongoing efforts to put the foundations in place to ‘future-proof’ the region’s health and social care systems and we look forward to working with our partners as we monitor and progress these programmes.”
 
The project at Alder Hey is to fund the internal fit out of a new innovation hub which features a ‘living lab’ and co-creation space.