Innovate Healthier Together Programme

The Innovate Healthier Together Programme aims to increase the uptake and spread of successful innovative practices across Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care System (ICS).

This programme will look at innovation through a broad lens; it could be a new way of working, a new idea, method or device.

The ‘Innovate Healthier Together Programme’ will support NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (ICB) in their ambitions to change lives and improve health, wellbeing and care for the populations they serve.

This is a space for you to find out more about innovation in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire and explore opportunities to get involved in the Innovate Healthier Together Programme.

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“I’m delighted that colleagues across the ICS will have the opportunity to connect and learn about the huge amount of innovative activity going on in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire through this new programme. Innovate Healthier Together will foster new connections and nurture a culture of innovation; to encourage innovative thinking and drive innovative activity in health and care to improve outcomes for our citizens and patients.” – Shane Devlin, Chief Executive, NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB

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Innovate Healthier Together Fellowship Launch

On Wednesday 1 May, Innovate Healthier Together hosted an event to mark the official launch of the Innovate Healthier Together Fellowship. We were joined by 121 professionals with a diverse mix of skills from across all health and care sectors, at The Mount Without in central Bristol.

Community of interest event: Innovative ways to improve access to services

Our first Innovate Healthier Together Fellowship community of interest in-person meeting took place on the 19 June at Futurespace, UWE Frenchay Campus. The session was compered by one of our Founding Fellows, Marc Griffiths, Pro Vice Chancellor for Health at UWE, and focused on the theme ‘innovate ways to improve access to services’.

Innovate Healthier Together June lunch and learn

This month’s lunch and learn session was hosted by Tim Keen, Associate Director of Strategy, Clinical Strategy and Partnerships at North Bristol Trust. Jane Stokes, Head of Customer Success at Mymhealth discussed the systemic factors influencing health-related behaviours and how innovation can promote healthier lifestyles.

Ellie Wetz, Associate Director

I’ve had the pleasure of working at Health Innovation West of England for about 10 years now. I was also fortunate to be recently seconded to NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB for 18 months, so feel I know this system and all its partner organisations well.

I’m thrilled to be working on a programme that has such a big ambition to accelerate innovation into practice in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. I think the foundations are there – but with a bit of dedicated support to strengthen the culture of innovation through practical application of design-thinking, networking, thought leadership and collaboration across sectoral and organisational boundaries, I think we could collectively and genuinely, achieve better outcomes for our citizens and patients.