Finding Innovative Solutions: We can help define your problem and work towards a solution.
Creating Collaboration: We can find the right people to work with, including health and social care teams, academics, industry, patients, public engagement and the third sector.
Funding your Innovation: We can help access vital funding for projects through identification of funding calls and guidance for applications.
Developing your Innovation Idea: We can help refine your innovation to one that will make a real impact.
West of Scotland Innovation Test Bed: We can provide the innovation infrastructure and expertise you need, including technical and project management support, data access and project governance.
A clear innovation pathway: We support you at every stage, from defining an initial challenge or innovation idea, real-world evaluation, through to implementation and adoption.
Support is available to individuals, academics and industry that have ideas that can demonstrate benefits for patients. The West of Scotland Innovation Hub team offers project management support and expertise on a variety of issues to help move ideas forward to ensure ideas can be accelerated to benefit patients and staff in the NHS and can be rapidly adopted if they can demonstrate value and improved care. The ‘test bed’ offers access to governance, digital infrastructure, evaluation, clinical engagement, data access and eHealth expertise within the NHS that is unrivalled by other organisations.
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