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The Innovation Agency is backing a new network for NHS leaders from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Launched by the NHS Confederation, the BME Leadership Network will work with national and front-line leaders to increase diversity and inclusivity in the NHS.

71 small and medium businesses have been supported through the Health Innovation Exchange project, helping them take their innovative products and services from concept to market, creating 22 new jobs, since launching in 2016. 

The region’s top innovators and researchers in healthcare have been recognised at the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards. 

A healthcare innovator from Cheshire has been selected to be a Fellow of the prestigious NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA).

The NHS spends approximately £6 billion a year on medical technology, also known as MedTech, such as medical devices, equipment and digital tools. It is an industry that accounts for more than 86,000 jobs in the UK, almost a third of which are in small companies, and supports an additional 24,600 service and supply roles.