Impact stories
Read these stories, which show how we are supporting the most promising innovations to benefit those who most need them.
How digital innovation is being used in social care to enhance wellbeing
Supporting independence and quality of life in adult social care in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes
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Listening, escalating, acting: turning concern into safer care
Supporting local NHS hospitals to embed Martha’s Rule and influence national change.
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Managing deterioration in maternity care
Ensuring maternity care providers in the region have evidence-based tools to help them respond to deterioration
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Transforming wound care
Health Innovation East led a wide-ranging programme, which has begun to transform the way the NHS treats wounds, particularly lower limb wounds.
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Increasing heart failure awareness in the East of England
Spreading awareness of heart failure signs, symptoms and treatments throughout the community and with healthcare professionals.
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Bridging the digital divide to support children and young people
Building a practical framework for digital inclusion of children and young people
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Gamified learning tool promoting Antimicrobial Stewardship
Health Innovation East collaborated with the NHS England East of England Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) team to develop a virtual escape room promoting AMS awareness and education among prescribers and healthcare professionals.
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Expanding access to neurosurgery research across the East of England
Building a region-wide approach to neurosurgery research that widens participation, strengthens local capacity, and improves outcomes for patients across the East of England.
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Digital Hackathon – Integrated Care Academy
A dynamic hackathon empowering frontline health and care professionals and patients with lived experience to co-create digital health solutions
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Supporting safer care from the very beginning
World Patient Safety Day – 17 September 2025 – “Safe care for every newborn and every child”
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Evaluating the Cancer (P)rehab pathway in BLMK
Health Innovation East’s real-world evaluation team worked with BLMK ICB to understand the impact of their cancer (p)rehabilitation service.
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Improving diversity within NHS leadership roles
East of England Ethnic Minority Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and Social Care Leadership Development Programme
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Delivering optimised lower limb wound care
Health Innovation East led the Transforming Wound Care programme, on behalf of the Health Innovation Network, to improve healing for patients with lower limb wounds.
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Healthy You: a service evaluation informing the recommissioning of Cambridgeshire Integrated Behaviour Change Service
Health Innovation East provided insights and recommendations to help inform decisions around Healthy You re-procurement
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Improving cancer detection with AI
Driving faster, earlier, and more accurate cancer detection
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Accelerating COPD detection
TidalSense’s stellar 2024 sees regulatory approval, ICS adoption and significant funding.
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Exploring the future of mental health: Tend VR – mindfulness based cognitive therapy
Delivering better mental wellbeing globally
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Giving preterm infants the best start in life
Optimisation and stabilisation of the preterm infant
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The MAPE project: improving how children and young people take medication for epilepsy
The project encompassed a rapid literature review exploring the views of children and young people with an epilepsy diagnosis and their parents and carers and a horizon scan identifying technologies to improve adherence.
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High-impact findings in Health Innovation East authored academic paper
Health Innovation East’s bespoke academic writing support has provided vital evidence on the analysis of patient records for earlier disease identification.
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