Contents Foreword Piers Ricketts and Elisabeth Buggins Meeting the coronavirus challenge together Piers Ricketts Eastern AHSN 2019/20 Our impact in numbers Using local insights to address national priorities Dr Sarah Robinson N ational AHSN Network 2019/20 National impact in numbers Rapid adoption and spread of national products Dr Sarah Robinson Driving safe behaviour change across the system Caroline Angel I usually walk with a stick, but today I have come here without it. Transforming our understanding of inflammatory bowel disease Mark Avery and Sarah Sleet Surviving cancer through early diagnosis Katrina Wilson F our questions every clinical entrepreneur should ask themselves Dr Tamsin Holland-Brown Innovators mind the gap Dr Louise Jopling and Dr Uday Phadke F rom prototype to market M aking living with type 1 diabetes less complicated Prof Roman Hovorka M edTechBOOST an innovation gateway Shiri Gold and Bruno Cotta H ow opening doors and fixing lightbulbs enables patient care Ash Kalraiya T he risky business of reporting risks and benefits Charlotte James If there were any tears, it was when I tried to take the virtual reality headset off him! E nabling continuity of care across the system Innovation the multiplier effect of diversity Charlotte James S upporting grassroots innovation Prof Philip Smith S caling innovation across a whole hospital Dr Sandeep Bansal S ocial media as a power for good Rifah Ahsan Creating solutions alongside and never on behalf of patients A ward wins a year of success