Innovation Health and Wealth (IHW): One Year On (Department of Health)

Summary

This report gives an update on the implementation of the NHS Chief Executive’s “Innovation health and wealth: accelerating adoption and diffusion in the NHS” report, published in December 2011, defining the Department of Health’s agenda for delivering innovation throughout the NHS. Further steps are to include building IHW into the NHS Commissioning Board and the new NHS architecture, and to raise awareness about IHW.

The aim remains to embed innovation into the NHS and improve outcomes and quality for patients.

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Reference

Department of Health (2012). Creating change: innovation health and wealth (IHW) one year on. Leeds: Department of Health, December 2012.

Dementia High Impact Innovation

The “Support for Carers of People with Dementia” webpage is devoted one of the high impact innovations (HIIs) identified by IHW; namely supporting carers of people with dementia.

[A brief reference to this item features in Dementia and Elderly Care: the Latest Evidence Newsletter (RWNHST), Volume 3 Issue 7, May 2013].