As the North West London Obesity Mission prepares to move from Discovery into Delivery this October, the Mission team is not only refining the innovation opportunities to take forward but also co-designing an engagement model that will shape how partners across the system work together to develop, test and deliver them. Chanelle Corena is a Service Designer at Imperial College...Read More
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) is delighted to announce that a North West London (NWL) partnership project focused on optimising hospital discharge has been shortlisted for the ‘Driving Efficiency through Technology’ Award at this year’s HSJ Awards. This partnership project – involving ICHP as NWL’s innovation partner, The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS FT, Chelsea & Westminster...Read More
Expressions of interest are now open for London Region I, a regulatory sandbox that will support the safe, real-world deployment and evaluation of AI-enabled medical devices in NHS settings. The programme is inviting AI device manufacturers and NHS providers across London to take part, with London being the first NHS region to adopt a regulatory sandbox approach. Full details, eligibility criteria and...Read More
Imperial College Health Partners’ 2025/26 Impact Report highlights how focused partnership across North West London is helping innovation move from promising idea to practical impact. The report brings together nine stories across three themes: testing and scaling, data and real-world evidence, and partnerships. Together, they show what can be achieved when NHS, local authority, academic,...Read More
Lucie Wellington, Innovation Manager, shares how a new partnership with regulatory technology company fsub is helping health tech innovators across North West London navigate one of the hardest parts of their journey. At Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP), we support innovators at every stage of their journey, from idea to implementation and scale. Across that journey, one challenge comes...Read More
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) has appointed three Non-Executive Directors. Dr Mark Davies, Chief Health Officer for IBM, Professor Joann Rhodes, Chief Executive of the Health Innovation Research Alliance Northern Ireland (HIRANI), and Sutha Satkunarajah, Vice President, Strategy and Operations at Flagship Pioneering UK, will take up their roles on 1 July 2026. The appointment...Read More
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP)’s Innovation Support Team, has launched the ICHP Innovation Associates Programme – a new flagship offer designed to open the door for NHS staff across North West (NW) London to get involved in the health innovation landscape. More details about the programme The Innovation Support Team provides expertise and hands-on support to health innovators that are looking to spread and scale their work across the system. The ICHP Innovation Associate Programme is open to any NW London NHS staff...Read More
Across North West London, we are facing a public health challenge that is both urgent and deeply complex, nearly 1 in 5 adults and over 1 in 5 children are obese. 18,000 people are formally diagnosed each year, however many people remain undetected within the NHS system. The burden is not shared equally: obesity is...Read More
ICHP has been involved in developing a new regulatory sandbox which will be delivered in partnership with the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, NHS England (London Region) and the three London heath innovation networks. Here, Dr Dominique Allwood and Abeer Itrakjy share how the London Region I sandbox aims to create the conditions for...Read More
