About Us

Local change, national impact

The Health Innovation Network brings together the 15 local health innovation networks across England. 

Each health innovation network is fully embedded in its local health and research ecosystem, working closely with NHS, industry and academia, as well as voluntary, charity and social enterprises.

Through projects that support both local agendas and national ambitions, our work aims to improve population health outcomes, improve NHS productivity and drive economic growth in all parts of the country, ensuring that everyone benefits from innovation. 

Locally, we deliver boots-on-the-ground innovation adoption support to health and care teams.

Nationally, we come together as the Health Innovation Network to share best practice, accelerate learning and deliver national spread of innovation at pace and scale.

Our collaboration ensures innovations, improvements and best practice benefit more patients, faster.

We transform lives through innovation by supporting health and social care teams to find, test and implement new solutions to the NHS’s greatest challenges, driving economic growth for the country.

What We Do

How We Do It

Our Impact

We support

innovators to develop their good ideas into scalable solutions.

We support

the health and care system to adopt proven innovations at scale and speed.

4.9M

patients
benefitted

340,000

hours of NHS time released

£3bn

investment into companies
we support

11,000

jobs created or safeguarded

3,000+

innovations in our pipeline

Explore our latest Impact Report

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Our People

The Health Innovation Network is supported to collaborate by a Central Network team, which is governed by the Chief Executives of the 15 local networks.

Our Partners

All our work is delivered in partnership, maximising the impact of innovation at national, regional and local levels.

Explore our programmes

Our initiatives are designed to advance the uptake and spread of all types of innovation within the NHS and social care, from new technologies to ways of working and service improvements.

Our Priorities

While the 15 health innovation networks work to address regional needs with locally-relevant approaches, we all have the same underpinning priorities.