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38 people and organisations behind innovative research initiatives across the North West Coast have been shortlisted in the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards 2022.

An innovative ‘sponge on a string’ diagnostic test is set to improve cancer care and ease the pressure on health services in the North West Coast.

A support progamme is to be launched to help innovative small companies forge links with the health and social care sector.

New national awards to celebrate innovation in health and care have been launched today by the AHSN Network and NHS Confederation.

A digital dashboard has helped an NHS trust deliver improved mental health care and make around £1.7m worth of efficiency gains.

The first cohort of graduates to complete a ground-breaking programme aimed at tackling a shortage of psychological professionals in the NHS received their certificates at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan).

Users of health and care services may assume that system-wide collaboration already exists – that local authority, social and domiciliary care providers, primary care networks, NHS organisations and trusts, and other critical stakeholder collaboratives are connected and communicating regularly – but this is not consistently true.

BBC North West Tonight and Breakfast presenter Roger Johnson will host the North West Coast Research and Innovation Awards 2022 which make a welcome return to the region after an absence of two years.

When the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved the use of Inclisiran last autumn, it represented a new opportunity to make a real difference to those patients at high risk of having a heart attack or stroke.