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  • Health Innovation Wessex appoints Philippa Darnton as Director of Insight

    15 March 2024

    Philippa Darnton has been appointed to the role of Director of Insight for Health Innovation Wessex, following a period leading the Insight function in an interim capacity.This critical role covers both the Director of Insight position for Health Innovation Wessex and the Implementation Director role with the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration ... Read more >


  • New regional partnership will improve population health and patient outcomes with global impact

    13 March 2024

    A new partnership to improve population health, boost economic growth, and create better health and care outcomes for patients and wider society has formally launched.Wessex Health Partners (WHP) is a strategic alliance of organisations in Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, which aims to accelerate better health and care through research, ... Read more >


  • Health Innovation Wessex appoints Richard Booth as Deputy CEO and Director of Innovation Adoption

    12 March 2024

    Dr Richard Booth has been appointed as our new Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Director of Innovation Adoption.Richard’s extensive experiences at the forefront of healthcare innovation include establishing a deployment framework within a digital healthtech scale-up, guiding portfolio companies within a medtech investment business, national in... Read more >


  • RWE Programme 2024

    23 February 2024

    Real-World Evaluation Programme 2024/25 OverviewDo you want to understand the impact of an innovation? Health Innovation Wessex (HIW) is offering its evaluation expertise to deliver real-world evaluation for health and care organisations in Dorset and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Systems, and our university members.  &nb... Read more >


  • Wessex genomics workshop highlights opportunities for region

    21 December 2023

    Health and care system leaders gathered at a workshop in November to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by delivery of the UK’s 2020 genomic strategy.The workshop, jointly hosted by Health Innovation Wessex (HIW), Wessex Health Partners (WHP), and the NHS Central and South Genomic Medicine Service Alliance, brought together more ... Read more >


  • Nicola Bent to become Acting Chief Executive from January 2024

    21 December 2023

    This week we said goodbye and thank you to our Chief Executive, Bill Gillespie, who retired after eight years with the network.Under Bill's leadership, we established a strong reputation for supporting health and care systems to drive the evaluation, adoption and spread of innovation.We're pleased to share that Nicola Bent, our Deputy Chief Exec... Read more >


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Celebrating five years of Wessex innovation in polypharmacy training

We are delighted to launch this ‘Polypharmacy Action Learning Set: Five Year Synopsis’ repor...

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