The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) was created to help address the priorities of improving take-up of innovations in the NHS as expressed in the Five Year Forward View goals. It is intended to help create conditions and cultural change so that healthcare innovations are adopted faster and more systematically and to deliver practical examples for patient and population benefit. The NIA was created by NHS England together with UCLPartners, Academic Health Science Networks and The Health Foundation to offer a range of customised and dedicated support for 17 Fellows to scale innovations with the goals of improving patient outcomes while maintaining or reducing service costs. The programme support runs over a one year period initially with the opportunity for annual extension via an application process.
NHS Innovation Accelerator Evaluation March 2018
Thursday, 1 March, 2018
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Monday, 1 January, 2018
On 1 April 2018 the first Accountable Care Organisations will be introduced into England’s NHS. The NHS and Local Authorities take care of people when they are at their most vulnerable. Changes to the services they need should be the subject of careful scrutiny by parliament and other statutory bodies.