Partners: NWL ICB
Alignment with three shifts: Analogue to digital
Enabler: Connecting and supporting innovators
As part of our commission from the Office for Life Sciences and our support offer to innovators with solutions that align with the NWL Missions, ICHP hosted a series of Innovation Forums in 2024/25.
These events brought together almost 150 key stakeholders from our integrated care system (clinicians, leaders, operational colleagues), and innovators and industry with cutting-edge solutions that align with real-world challenges the system is facing.
These events supported:
• Signalling regional demand and priorities
• Curating a space for the patient voice to be shared
• Networking and partnership building
• Sharing best practice and system-wide problem-solving
Across three in-person events:
• 17 industry and innovator representatives joined, all with solutions aligned to the NWL Missions
• 8 patient and lived experience partners were represented
• 114 innovator/NHS matches made
Co-designed outputs from the forums included:
• CVD: Collaboratively designed a clear system implementation pathway, identifying practical steps to integrate innovations effectively
• Enabling more days at home: Co-designed system-wide principles for successfully
scaling solutions
• CYP mental health: Co-designed principles for building a sustainable Mental Health Innovation Network, and strategies to build and strengthen it for long-term impact
The outputs from these forums will inform the continued delivery of our mission-led approach to innovation in 2025/26.
“Great variety of speakers and insights!” – Forum delegate
“Engaging, informative and very well organised.” – Forum delegate
