Academic Health Science Networks call for a national debate to address issues preventing innovation diffusion at scale Diffusion of innovation across the NHS at pace and scale remains a difficult nut to crack, yet one that must be urgently addressed if we are to collectively tackle the big challenges faced by the NHS over the...Read More
Making the NHS an attractive market place for industry to do business in is a priority for all Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs). However, the barriers causing it to lag behind other systems are complex. Therefore, in order to develop a sustainable strategy to address these barriers, we need to have both a sophisticated understanding...Read More
Imperial College Health Partners has now produced its second annual report for 2014/15. Click on the image below to view the report immediately. Otherwise, right click and press ‘Save Link As…’ to download the report. First published: 29 May 2015 The report gives a comprehensive overview of the work of Imperial College Health Partners, our...Read More
NHS England has today (Monday 22 December) announced that Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has been designated a Genomic Medical Centre (GMC) in partnership with Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Imperial College Health Partners will also be supporting the new...Read More
Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) has today been announced as one of 15 new Patient Safety Collaboratives set up to help improve the safety of patients and ensure continual learning sits at the heart of healthcare in England. The network of collaboratives, launched by Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, will focus on improving...Read More
Buckinghamshire New University has today joined Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP), which brings together some of the world’s most respected health and academic institutions to bring demonstrable improvements in the health and wellbeing of the 2.3 million people living in North West London. It is also the Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) for this area....Read More
Imperial College Health Partners has now produced its second annual report for 2013/14. Click on the image below to view the report immediately. Otherwise, right click and press ‘Save Link As…’ to download the report. First published: 2 June 2014 The report gives a comprehensive overview of the work of Imperial College Health Partners, our...Read More
In 1997, monetary policy in this country was transformed overnight. On May 6, the then chancellor of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, gave the Bank of England operational independence. This remains one of the most important and universally welcomed policy decisions of the 1990s. The NHS needs a similar watershed moment if it wants to weather...Read More
Industry is from Mars and the NHS is from Venus. One is the master of unsolicited offers, the other plays hard to guess and get. This may be stretching it somewhat but a frequent complaint you will hear in corridors of commercial directors in the NHS is that they are inundated by cold-calls, or in...Read More
