News and blogs
Collaborating for medicines safety
8 March 2024A programme to reduce the avoidable harm caused by opioids is now on a firm footing in the North West Coast.
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Launch of new lipid management pathway
27 February 2024Clinicians in Cheshire and Merseyside have collaborated on a new lipid management pathway aimed at improving outcomes for people with cardiovascular disease (CVD).
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Mental health innovators to benefit from £20m programme
7 February 2024Health Innovation North West Coast is backing a programme to support innovators working at the forefront of mental health therapeutics
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“Real world validation” being validated by the academic community
6 February 2024A recent report demonstrates the acceptance of “real world” data from health care settings and the impact on patients being used to inform academic research.
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Supporting late preterm babies to go home earlier
1 February 2024This research project looked at neonatal outreach services across the North West. Insights from this study can help inform the creation of new neonatal outreach services, or improve existing services, both locally and nationally. Project was a collaboration with NIHR ARC NWC, Health Innovation North West Coast and the North West Neonatal Operational Delivery Network.
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The benefits of switching from single-use to reusable surgical and isolation gowns
24 January 2024Single-use gowns are one of the most carbon-intensive PPE items, with considerable opportunity to realise both carbon and financial savings through increased uptake of reusable gowns.
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Toolkit unveiled to tackle fuel poverty
19 January 2024Health Innovation North West Coast and partners have created a toolkit to help teams mitigate the impact of fuel poverty on vulnerable people.
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What the natural world can teach us about systems thinking
18 January 2024If you’re a bird, or an insect, or one of our native reptiles, you aren’t bothered where a boundary for one organisation ends and another begins.
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Evaluating a test-and-treat pathway
4 January 2024An evaluation is under way on a new pathway for patients with acute respiratory infections. Omobolanle Olagunju, who is working on the project for Health Innovation North West Coast, describes its aims.
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Incubating new AI ideas in Cheshire and Merseyside to improve health care delivery
5 December 2023C2-Ai and Health Innovation NWC's collaboration with Cheshire and Merseyside ICB continues to grow from strength to strength.
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