This series of guides is designed to help funders and project leads to set up and sustain innovative projects across the NHS. The How to Guides draw together the material on supporting health innovation which the Young Foundation delivered and refined as part of its support for the Regional Innovation Funds (RIFs), in partnership with Nesta.
The methods, techniques and approaches described within should act as a guide to the innovation process rather than a definitive and restrictive roadmap to success. By embedding these principals into future innovation activities we hope to further increase the quality, support and eventual success of innovators in the NHS.
The 10 Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) launched the RIFs in April 2009 to tackle the challenge of developing and mainstreaming innovation within the NHS. Fulfilling their mandate to lead service delivery innovation in the NHS, the SHAs developed a portfolio of projects which tackle some of the most urgent issues facing the NHS today by unleashing the imagination and knowledge of frontline staff. The SHAs developed and refined a great deal of learning on how to promote and diffuse innovation across their areas, embedding innovative practice in day to day delivery.
Methods & Measurement Social innovation
Posted on: 1 March 2011 Authors: John Loder, Sarah McGeehan,