Innovation into impact. 💡 Our 2025-26 Impact Report highlights how we're improving maternity safety, helping prevent heart attacks and strokes, and supporting AI innovation in skin cancer care across the West Midlands. 🔗 simplebooklet.com/hiwmimpact… #NHS #Innovation

Today is World Contraception Day. Contraception services are free and confidential on the NHS for anyone who needs them. See where you can find different forms of contraception available to you Down arrow nhs.uk/nhs-services/sexual-h…

Well done to Health Innovation West Midlands, Health Innovation East Midlands, NHS England Medicines Safety Improvement Team, Clinical Digital Resource Collaborative, The Patient Safety Collaboratives, highly commended in the 'Data tools and technology to support medicines optimisation' category for their project on 'Smarter data, better tools: helping to avoid harm from antipsychotics prescribed for behaviour that challenges in people with learning disability'. Thank you to everyone who entered this category. #PrescQIPP2026 @HealthInnovWM

How do we make the West Midlands one of the best places to develop, test, adopt & scale health innovation? A key message from our Innovator Summit: we’re not short of great ideas. The challenge is turning them into impact, getting proven innovations to patients & the NHS faster.

Pharmacists are an essential part of the NHS team, helping people across the country to live longer and healthier lives. This World Pharmacists Day, thank you to all pharmacists for their hard work, expertise and knowledge! 💙

Great to give a keynote at Health Innovation West Midlands at the University of Birmingham. Britain has world leading science and innovation. The challenge is turning it into better care for patients, while creating the investment, jobs and growth. #LSW26 #LifeSciences

Navigating NHS Collaboration featured advice for innovators at every step of their journey. Thanks Tim Robinson @Healthinn_em, Claire Wickett @BHPComms @BirminghamBRC, Richard Phillips @UK_ABHI, Gemma Badger @HillDickinson, Jeff Bousfield @NonacusLtd & Jack Porter @NHSAccelerator

Our first panel discussed how we can make the West Midlands the best place to invent, build and scale health Innovation. Panel: Ewa Truchanowicz - Mercia Innovation Partners, Alex Hamilton @WestMids_CA, Professor Alex Richter @unibirmingham and Christopher George - NHS Alliance

At our Health Tech & Life Sciences Innovator Summit we've heard from HIWM Chair Jonathan Pearson, @PreetKGillMP & HIWM CEO Amanda Risino about the opportunities for innovators in the West Midlands, one of the fastest-growing & most diverse health innovation ecosystems in the UK.

Innovation only delivers impact when it’s adopted at scale. Thanks to @LifeSciencesW for featuring our CEO Amanda Risino, sharing why adoption is the next frontier for UK life sciences. 📖 Read the full article on page 30: lifesciencesweek.co.uk/wp-co…

One week to go until our next Unlocking the NHS webinar! Our ‘Developing Your Value Proposition’ webinar will help innovators build a clear, compelling and evidence-based case for their solution. 24 September | 12:30pm – 1:30pm Register your place: unlocking_innovation_develop…

Sepsis is one of the biggest killers in England and tackling it is a priority for the NHS. The NHS Sepsis Modern Service Framework sets a clear target – to reduce death, life-threatening complications, and long-term harm by at least 25% by 2036. ℹ️ england.nhs.uk/publication/s…

Over the financial year 2025-26, we delivered more than 2,000 hours of support services to 337 companies, providing expertise, advice and connections to help innovators bring new solutions into health and care. Read more in our Impact Report: simplebooklet.com/hiwmimpact…

🤔 Couldn't join us live? No problem! 🎬 The full recording of Sickness absence in the working age population: a retrospective cohort study using primary care health record data is now live! 💻 YouTube: piped.video/hpUCdFtaQVo 🔗 Website: hdrmidlands.org.uk/hdrevents…

⏰ One week to go! Places are filling up fast for our Health Tech & Life Sciences Innovator Summit. 📅 23 September 📍 Birmingham Health Innovation Campus Connect, learn and access support to help scale your innovation. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… #LSW26 @LifeSciencesW

How can we help people stay active, independent and connected for longer? Researchers at the @unibirmingham are leading two new projects that put people's everyday lives at the centre of care. Read more: birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/s…

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day 🫂 If you're feeling like you want to end your life, it's important to tell someone. You don't have to struggle with difficult feelings alone. If you're worried about someone else, reach out. Help and support: nhs.uk/mental-health/feeling…

Health tech and life sciences innovators join us on 23 September at Birmingham Health Innovation Campus to connect with experts, access tailored business support, and discover opportunities to grow and scale your innovation. Register your interest: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

📢 Last chance to register for our Innovation Showcase on 10 September! Hear from pioneering health innovators, discover digital solutions improving patient care, and learn about our new Grow Digital Health Midlands Enabling Fund. 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/grow-digi…

Working in health tech, life sciences or healthcare innovation? Our latest newsletter includes: ✅ Innovator Summit ✅ Martha's Rule HSJ Awards shortlist ✅ Black Maternity Matters ✅ Funding & growth opportunities ✅ Events & webinars Read more: mailchi.mp/healthinnovationw…