Blogs

The NHS celebrates its 75th birthday this month, providing a service that is available to all, based on clinical need rather than on an individual’s ability to pay.

NHS England’s theme for the 75th anniversary year is innovation that is shaping and advancing modern medicine.

In her February blog Suzanne Horobin, EMAHSN’s Head of Innovation Exchange promised that the new Integrated Care System (ICS) Innovation Lead  roles would be exciting, fast-paced and never boring!

We invited Shazia who took on the role for Joined-up Care Derbyshire to tell us how her first couple of months had gone – and whether it had lived up to the promise!

Monday 19 June 2023 marks World Sickle Cell Awareness Day – a great opportunity to increase awareness of this disease, and the challenges facing patients, their families and carers. 

Sickle cell disease is the name for a group of inherited health conditions that affect the haemoglobin in red blood cells. People with sickle cell disorder are born with the condition, it is not contagious. It can only be inherited from both parents each having passed on the gene for sickle cell.

Glen heads up the newly launched EMAHSN Analytics and Evaluation Service, based in Nottingham.

Here, he tells us about the specialist data expertise and support the team is providing for the health and care system and how you could access it.

As part of our series of blogs looking back at ten years of East Midlands Academic Health Science Network, Kay Khan, Head of Improvement Programme Delivery, reflects on how the AHSN’s ability to bring people together has helped shift the dial for patient safety in the East Midlands. 

As the East Midlands innovation arm of the NHS, we recognise the need to try out new techniques to both ensure patients and citizens benefit from new innovative technologies and also work better with health and care systems to make this happen.

Head of Innovation Programme Delivery, Tracey Jackman discusses a new Health Inequalities programme being rolled out in the East Midlands. This blog covers the need for a programme of this kind, and how we are working with local systems to adopt this, so people who experience poorer health outcomes have better access to treatment, innovative medicines, and medical technologies.

The EMAHSN communications team is advertising for a Digital Communications Specialist. The successful post holder will be responsible for leading the delivery and creation of digital communications activity.

In this blog, Chanice Jenkins Senior Communications Manager for Digital and Corporate projects gives insight into what it’s like working at the EMAHSN as well as the opportunities the role will bring.

Professor Marion Walker has been appointed to a joint role between the East Midlands AHSN and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) East Midlands.

Marion currently works as the ARC Equality Diversity and Inclusion Committee Chair and has spent much of her career researching and leading stroke rehabilitation, becoming recognised as a world leading authority in this area.

I have been a key advocate for the outstanding work undertaken by the Applied Research Collaborations since their creation 13 years ago. Indeed, I have been proud to hold several leadership roles within the three consecutive funding rounds.

Factors for scaling and embedding innovation

In this blog, EMAHSN Managing Director Nicole McGlennon discusses the considerations of embedding change, how can healthcare systems create the conditions for healthcare innovation adoption and identifies five key areas NHS systems can consider.

In recognition of October also being ADHD awareness month, Nicole refers to our Focus ADHD project and how AHSNs have played a part in supporting young people across the country to receive an objective diagnosis for ADHD.