Access our support and expertise:
Health Innovation East Midlands (HIEM) wants to hear from adults with ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) and parents/carers of children with ADHD in the East Midlands who have experienced the NHS ADHD pathway.
HIEM is inviting participants to take part in an interactive demonstration* of a new digital technology designed to support ADHD assessments, and to share feedback to help shape its development.
Read More
The Health Innovation Network and The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) are hosting a webinar on 3 June for NHS organisations and health systems, to highlight opportunities to partner with industry to tackle local system challenges and unlock new funding opportunities.
This session is for people working across the NHS and will provide practical insights showing how collaborating with industry can accelerate transformative outcomes, improve patient access to cutting edge treatments and help secure additional resources.
Health Innovation East Midlands has launched a new Innovation Fund to support NHS organisations in the East Midlands working to improve outcomes for people diagnosed with cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Teams from mental health services across the East Midlands attended an event this month on Caring Together; Improving Safety Through Experiences.
The face-to-face learning event brought together service users, clinicians and staff from Mental Health Services across the six providers in the East Midlands to advance the shared goal of improving safety through experiences.
HIEM has supported Derbyshire’s health system to review its new pain management groups.
The recent report reviews the impact of the 21 chronic pain support groups in the area. The groups are based on the ‘Lets Live Well With Pain Programme’ that has been developed locally, grounded in the ten footsteps approach by Live Well with Pain (LWWP).
The groups are all based in the community rather than in hospital and have all been adapted to suit their local area needs.
The community Breast Pain Clinic (cBPC) is the first service of its kind in the UK.
It provides timely support for women experiencing breast pain not related to breast cancer, avoiding unnecessary patient anxiety and saving NHS resources by reducing the number of referrals under the 2-week-wait system.
Health Innovation East Midlands has supported the evaluation of this service, and the East Midlands Cancer Alliance have launched a toolkit for clinicians.
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) has announced its 2025 intake – 28 exceptional health and social care innovators, ready to support the NHS in the areas that make the biggest difference to patients.
A new guide aimed at helping primary care organisations and integrated care boards understand and address problematic polypharmacy has been launched by the Health Innovation Network as part of our national Polypharmacy Programme.
Developed in response to a clear need identified by primary care and prescribing colleagues, this essential resource provides practical, evidence-based strategies to help organisations and healthcare professionals help to reduce overprescribing and improve patient outcomes.
A digital technology that has supported more than 70,000 children and young people across England, has been shortlisted in two categories at the 2025 HSJ Digital Awards.
QbTest is an assessment tool developed by Qbtech, that measures the core components of ADHD (attention, impulsivity and activity).
A wound care service in Lincolnshire has helped inform national evaluation of the Health Innovation Network’s Transforming Wound Care programme.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust implemented the new wound care pathway initially in its First Coastal Primary Care Network to deliver a specialist service to inhabitants, in their own homes.
It has proved so successful that it is being rolled out across the county. It was one of eight Test and Evaluation Sites (TES) included in the report.