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Group of Health Innovation East staff sit round a table together having a meeting 25th August, 2026

From Procurement to Innovation: My Internship Experience at Health Innovation East

What’s it like to be a Procurement Intern at Health Innovation East? Samantha Tyrell reflects on her experience, learning and highlights from her internship.

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Hospital staff, one in a white lab coat and stethoscope and one in a pair of green scrubs talk, to other people join the conversation just out of the picture 24th August, 2026

Best Practice in the Region: Embedding a Culture of Continuous Quality Improvement at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has developed its approach to continuous quality improvement, embedding improvement into everyday practice through leadership, capability building and strategic alignment.

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Group of people walking together in the park 19th August, 2026

How patient voices bring innovation to life

Sarah Curry, Advisor at Health Innovation East explores how patient voices help bring the impact of innovation to life

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Female patient lays in hospital bed, husband talks to doctor at the side of the bed 21st July, 2026

Detecting and acting on patient deterioration

How Martha’s Rule is driving meaningful change across the East of England.

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Corporate workshop taking place in the background with a flipchart with post it notes in the foreground 25th June, 2026

From Evidence to Impact – Knowledge Mobilisation in Practice

Our consulting team shares their reflection from the first in a series of webinars spotlighting key challenges our partners are facing, and sharing tools, techniques and insights from real-world projects regarding how they can be overcome.

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Creative Arts East image taken by Anita Staff 12th June, 2026

Creative Arts – shaping how communities live healthier and more connected lives

Research published in April 2026 suggested that in the UK, over the most recent decade, healthy life expectancy fell by two years. The recent establishment of Norfolk and Suffolk’s Region for Creative Health Programme offers a practical response that addresses the wider determinants of our health, supports prevention and delivers measurable outcomes.

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Two white haired ladies smile at one another 03rd June, 2026

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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Impact 25-26 front cover. Michelle, cancer prehab patient and trainer Lisa look at one another smiling 31st May, 2026

Health Innovation East Impact Review 2025-26

Read how we have been helping the best innovations reach the people, places and problems where they will bring most benefit throughout 2025-26

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The concept ward team wearing the proxximos lanyards 22nd May, 2026

Preventing the spread of hospital acquired infections

Using automated digital contact tracing methods to transform infection control measures

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Team sit around looking at a flipchart 19th May, 2026

Realising the potential of great ideas

Providing the resources and guidance to transform innovations into impact

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Elderly lady in hospital eats a peach in bed 18th May, 2026

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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Crowd of people 15th May, 2026

Supporting local collaboration to drive practical, locally relevant change

Health Innovation East is working with Healthy Futures East – a regional partnership that is supporting evidence informed practice, system learning and innovation across public health and prevention.

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