Local Implementation and Transformation

Health outcomes in England are not evenly distributed. Many factors including geography, income, ethnicity, housing, and access to services all shape a person’s health trajectory.

Over the past decade, we’ve demonstrated how our collaboration as a Network can spread proven innovations across the country, at pace and scale, but ensuring that national scale remains equitable and relevant to all populations depends on place-based innovation: proven models need to be tested, adapted and implemented in real-world systems and populations.

As a network of locally embedded, place-based innovation organisations we recognised that the greatest gains come when innovation is shaped by local context, with people who understand their communities and their needs, and through local strategic partnerships.

The health innovation networks provide place-based innovation capability, connecting national priorities with local partnerships, horizon scanning, real-world evaluation and delivery of regional and national implementation programmes.

We design, test, and scale of solutions that are rooted in the specific needs of our systems and geographies, and make best use of the assets available in the area. Not only does this generate growth and prosperity in a local area, but it does so in a way that benefits the people in that community.  It’s about making solutions meaningful for the people they’re designed to help, taking the best, reducing variation where it’s important too, but recognising and tailoring to the local context.