Blogs

In our line of work, we often are asked "What do I need to ensure my innovation is adopted into the NHS?" The truth is, there's no one-size-fits-all answer; it largely depends on the nature of your innovation and numerous other variables. While there might not be a single recipe, based on our experience, several key ingredients often form part of a successful formula.

Hello everyone! I'm Erica Warren, the newly appointed Innovation Lead for Mental Health, Learning Difficulties, and Autism for the East Midlands Alliance. It's an absolute pleasure to be a part of this journey, and I'm eager to see what we can achieve together.

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.