Funding for our core work comes from contracts with NHS England and the Office for Life Sciences to enable the adoption and spread of innovations and to improve healthcare in the region. We work in close partnership with many other parts of the NHS, as well as local and national bodies in industry and academia.

NHS England

Delivering access to proven innovations – improving care, encouraging prevention, enabling efficiencies and reducing health inequalities.

Clinical innovator – great ideas often come from those working directly in health and care.

Office for Life Science (OLS)

From pioneering startups to global companies, we work with innovators to help their idea make meaningful change in the real world.

Our team of expert advisors have a deep understanding of the NHS, evaluation, industry and entrepreneurship. We can identify opportunities to scale-up your innovation, remove barriers and accelerate the value of innovation into our regional health and care system and beyond.

During 2024/25 our work helped to leverage £41 million of external investment into the East of England – creating 28.5 jobs and safeguarding a further 45.5.

East of England Patient Safety Collaborative

Innovation should never come at the price of patient safety.

Health Innovation East hosts the East of England Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC), which is tasked with embedding the National Patient Safety Improvement Programmes across the region.

Our work is funded by NHS England,  to play a critical role in identifying and spreading safer care initiatives. We do this by working across a variety of healthcare settings to share and spread evidence-based practices, products and tools.