NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (NHS Institute) is a special health authority

NHS Special Health Authority

A special health authority is a type of NHS trust which provide services on behalf of the National Health Service in England. Unlike other types of Trust, they operate nationally rather than serve a specific geographical area....

of the National Health Service

National Health Service

The National Health Service is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom. They provide a comprehensive range of health services, the vast majority of which are free at the point of use to residents of the United Kingdom...

in England

England

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. It "supports the NHS to transform healthcare for patients and the public by rapidly developing and spreading new ways of working, new technology and world-class leadership".

Its priority programmes were originally stated as:

Safer care
Quality and value
Building capability
Commissioning
No delays
The productive series
Share and network

In its 2008/2009 work plan these have been restated as:

Safer care
Delivering quality and value
Commissioning for health improvement
iLinks
Building capability for a self-improving NHS
Exploiting innovation - National Innovation Centre

The NHS Institute publishes papers on its research. These are not, however, publicly available without payment.

NHS National Innovation Centre

The National Innovation Centre is part of the NHS Institute. Its aim is "to speed up the development of pre-commercial technologies likely to benefit the NHS". It invites proposals for conmercial or other innovation which may benefit the NHS and provides support to develop these where appropriate.

Innovation hubs

The NHS network of regional NHS Innovation Hubs have been set up to support NHS Trusts and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) identify and develop innovations that are in the interests of patients and society as a whole. They do this through the activities and services of the network and by adoption of the Department of Health (United Kingdom)

Department of Health (United Kingdom)

The Department of Health is a department of the United Kingdom government with responsibility for government policy for health and social care matters and for the National Health Service in England along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish,...

Guidance.
The Innovation Hubs offer legal and commercial support to NHS staff who have a pre-market product.

The NHS Innovation Hub Network work to fulfill the following functions:

To build IP awareness in the Trusts
To find and evaluate IP for the Trusts
To protect and manage IP for the Trusts
To assist and fund
Funding
Funding is the act of providing resources, usually in form of money , or other values such as effort or time , for a project, a person, a business or any other private or public institutions...

technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

development
To commercialise technology and products
To facilitate the dissemination of service improvements

The NHS Innovation Hub network in England consist of the following organisations:

NHS Innovations East (Health Enterprise East)
NHS Innovations East Midlands
NHS Innovations London
NHS Innovations London
NHS Innovations London is part of a national network of NHS Innovation Hubs that were established to provide services to the NHS to help Trusts identify, protect and develop their ideas. The activities of the NHS Innovations Hubs are coordinated by the National Innovation Centre, part of the NHS...
NHS Innovations North
NHS Innovations North West (TrusTECH)
NHS Innovations South East
NHS Innovations South West
NHS Innovations West Midlands (MidTECH)
NHS Innovations Yorkshire and Humber (Medipex Ltd)

NHS Innovation Hubs

Sources

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20060205/ai_n16048024
http://www.devicelink.com/mdt/archive/06/10/013.html
http://www.twanetwerk.nl/default.ashx?DocumentId=7097

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