From 1 July 2019, all patients in England should be covered by a primary care network (PCN). PCNs are made up from groups of neighbouring general practices. New funding is being channelled through the networks to employ staff to deliver services to patients across the member practices. Find out more in the report
Primary Care Networks
Monday, 1 July, 2019
Download Understanding primary care networks.pdf (244.63 KB)Why the NHS adopts innovation
Tuesday, 19 March, 2019
The NHS Innovation Accelerator’s research this year shines a light on some of these NHS ‘adopter’ organisations - capturing their insights and learning as to how they have successfully implemented innovations supported by this national initiative.
Understanding how and why the NHS adopts innovation is an important and insightful contribution to the growing literature on innovation uptake and spread.
Download NHS-Innovation-Accelerator.pdf (2.27 MB)Universal Personalised Care
Thursday, 14 February, 2019
This is the Easy Read version describing Universal Personalised Care and how to make personalised care happen.
Working with our Patient and Public Voice (PPV) Partners - Reimbursing Expenses and Paying Involvement Payments
Thursday, 14 February, 2019
NHS Long Term Plan
Monday, 4 February, 2019
The King's Fund have published an 'explainer' for the Long Term Plan. It is useful because they have expressed their unbiased view for each section, or wherever necessary.
NHS Innovation Accelerator Evaluation March 2018
Thursday, 1 March, 2018
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) was created to help address the priorities of improving take-up of innovations in the NHS as expressed in the Five Year Forward View goals. It is intended to help create conditions and cultural change so that healthcare innovations are adopted faster and more systematically and to deliver practical examples for patient and population benefit. The NIA was created by NHS England together with UCLPartners, Academic Health Science Networks and The Health Foundation to offer a range of customised and dedicated support for 17 Fellows to scale innovations with the goals of improving patient outcomes while maintaining or reducing service costs. The programme support runs over a one year period initially with the opportunity for annual extension via an application process.
Download NIA_Evaluation 2018.pdf (734.82 KB)