Preterm antenatal counselling is important, is difficult but can be taught @healthinnovox.bsky.social are facilitating 2 webinars by clinical experts for healthcare professionals to develop skills & confidence to communicate with parents to help them make decisions. Register via URL or scan QR code

Innovation is key to building a sustainable NHS. 💡 At Health Innovation Oxford & Thames Valley, we help innovators turn bold ideas into impactful solutions for patients & healthcare systems. Ready to make a difference? Explore the free Innovator Toolkit today: lnkd.in/eqrJmYhx #InnovatorToolkit

🚀 SMEs: Apply for NIHR i4i Connect Call 9 (£50k–£150k) to scale your health innovations! We provide tailored advice to align your project with funding priorities. 📅 Open 18 Feb | Close 18 Mar 2025 Let’s innovate: www.healthinnovationoxford.org/our-work/str... #Funding #MedTech #DigitalHealth

93 innovators supported in the last three months. 🚀 Harnessing innovation is key to a sustainable NHS. From expert guidance to NHS adoption, we’re here to help you transform healthcare. 💡 Ready to innovate? Explore our toolkit: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #HealthcareInnovation

We feature (p50) in new report highlighting targeted interventions to reduce healthcare inequalities With @ouhospitals.bsky.social/primary care/commissioners we found, reviewed & referred people with severe asthma needing specialist support/treatment thehealthinnovationnetwork.co.uk/news/innovat...

🔍 We’re proud to feature in a series of @theguardian.com articles discussing the challenges of bringing digital therapeutics to market. Get valuable insights on navigating the complexities of NHS adoption and more! www.theguardian.com/the-dawn-of-... #DigitalHealth #DTx #HealthcareInnovation

Optimising care (eg right medicines, patients fit enough for their op, reducing RTT waits), addressing prevention of ill-health and health inequalities are all critical to better patient outcomes and reducing (and/or mitigating against rising demand) healthcare costs and the carbon footprint.

Proportional representation is the most popular form of democracy for countries in the world today.

Baby Luna's journey from extreme preterm birth to a happy healthy one year old highlights the critical importance of perinatal working & regional collaboration. Rebecca & Alan share their experience with clinical perspectives from Dr Eleri Adams & Professor Lawrence Impey

Great to hear George Harston of Brainomix talk in this Royal Society of Medicine #DigitalHealth podcast about the value we added in helping build an evidence base to support scale-up. 👂 podcasts.apple.com/hr/podcast/s... 1/2

Our December newsletter includes the latest impact case studies, reports and resources developed with our partners in the NHS, industry and research. 📰 mailchi.mp/healthinnova... #HealthInnovationWorks

A new report outlines how local change involving England’s 15 health innovation networks (HINs) led to national impact benefitting patients, addressing NHS challenges and supporting economic growth. #HealthInnovationWorks 1/3

Free school breakfast clubs will start next year with extra childcare for parents Some 750 schools in England will be picked for a year-long pilot starting in April, as part of a massive expansion of provision of free breakfast clubs across the country👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Great piece from ⁦‪@BigIssue‬⁩ giving a fair assessment of government plans to ‘Gat Britain Working.’ Lots to welcome, but experts all point to the same gaps & risks - ⁦‪@trussell‬⁩ ⁦‪@nef‬⁩ ⁦‪@scope‬⁩ ⁦‪@Z2K_trust‬⁩ www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

I used to worry politicians were setting up the public for disappointment with their overly-optimistic "green jobs" promises. Now I realise, the public just isn't really buying it anyway. www.ft.com/content/2d00...

Large parts of adult social care in England face collapse, thinktank says. The budget blamed but there are other factors. Massive real cut in local govt funding since 2010. Privatisation: 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits. Money buys less. End Privatisation www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

@wildjustice.bsky.social has just launched a new petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. How will the new Labour Govt respond? Let's find out! 10K signatures gets a response. Currently on 6K. Please sign & share! #raptorresearch #ukbirding raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/11/23/w...

Trump won by less than 2.5 million votes Only 64% of voters turned out to vote 90 million adults didn’t vote How history changes on a whim

🦠 AMR is a global health crisis, undermining the effectiveness of essential medicines. During World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2024, let’s take action: "Educate. Advocate. Act now." 🌍💊 🔗 Learn about Oxford Martin School’s AMR research: https://buff.ly/3Czt65s #WAAW2024

All the evidence shows importance of greater access to nature, so cuts to England’s national parks are short-sighted & self-defeating. Instead Govt should reform them, give them a strong nature recovery focus & recognise their contribution to health & wellbeing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Healthcare providers and commissioners need help in identifying the AI solutions that will bring benefits to their patients and productivity to working practices. There's a lot of AI around and a lot being promised. HIOTV can help you, your staff and patients decide which solutions to adopt.

🔥 Let’s do this. Join European Movement UK. —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/membership

If the NHS is to achieve its Net Zero target it will have to accelerate adoption of innovation. Delivering Net Zero aligns to government goals - from illness to prevention, hospital to community and analogue to digital. Tackling health inequalities is key to achieveing Net Zero in healthcare too.

Over the next 3️⃣ days at #ISPOREurope we’re showcasing 5️⃣ examples of our capability in methodology and health economics supporting the development and adoption of high impact digital & AI innovations in healthcare. www.healthinnovationoxford.org/news-and-eve...

Our new evaluation shows #HospitalatHome services set up across the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board area provide effective care for thousands of patients and lead to fewer hospital admissions. Read more: www.healthinnovationoxford.org/news-and-eve... #IDOP2024

Great exchange of knowledge, experience and opportunities at our offices yesterday with colleagues from the Swedish office for life sciences and innovators from across the Thames Valley ecosystem.

A new blog & video from NHS England explain how AI is speeding up diagnosis & treatment in stroke. It follows our evaluation which demonstrated the value of AI decision support tools in the imaging pathway. They're now being used in every NHS stroke centre. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaJ6...

NEW CASE STUDY: Find out how we're bringing together NHS leaders and innovators to find new solutions to identified health needs in our region. Focus areas so far have included respiratory care and opioid safety. 📑 healthinnovationoxford.org/our-work/str...

📢We're recruiting! We have 2️⃣ vacancies within our Clinical Innovation Adoption team: ➡️ Senior project manager beta.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jo... ➡️ Programme support officer www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jo... These are full time permanent roles. We offer NHS pay and conditions. Apply by 15 November.

We're running another free online training session on 7 November (1200-1330) to help healthcare professionals manage safety risks for patients who take multiple medicines. More than 300 people have already attended one of these sessions. Book here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/346a34...

We gathered insights from NHS clinicians & managers as part of our evaluation supporting the development of an AI tool to identify older hospital patients at risk of cognitive decline and dementia and help them get the best care. See our new case study: www.healthinnovationoxford.org/our-work/str...

In our November newsletter: ➡️ Find out how to apply for 2⃣ roles in our team ➡️ Read about the shift to prevention, community & digital ➡️ Get our case study evaluating an AI tool to identify patients at risk of dementia ➡️ Find training and funding opportunities mailchi.mp/healthinnova...

‘At the last COP, fossil fuel lobbyists outnumbered representatives of scientific institutions, Indigenous communities and vulnerable nations’ C Figueres (ex UN) . We don’t have time for this corrupt and inept fiasco - we are being failed www.bbc.com/news/article...

More than a million pallets of unusable PPE has now been burned One million pallets Don't get me started 😡😡

Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X’ fortune.com/2024/11/14/g...