What are the Innovation Quick Guides?
Bringing an innovation into the NHS is complex. Many innovators struggle with the routes to adoption, scaling further, and achieving long-term sustainability within the NHS.
The Innovation Quick Guides series has been created to address the NHS innovation pathway, from securing initial implementation through to full commissioning, adoption, and ongoing use in practice.
Why you should use the Innovation Quick Guides
The NHS is actively seeking innovations that improve outcomes, increase efficiency, and respond to system pressures such as waiting times, workforce challenges, and prevention priorities. Despite this, adoption alone is not enough. Increasingly, NHS organisations are looking for solutions that:
Demonstrate value over time
Integrate into existing workflows
Remain sustainable within financial, operational, and environmental constraints
The Innovation Quick Guides are designed to help you navigate and understand these complexities.
Explore the Innovation Quick Guides
Select an area of healthcare innovation you would like to learn more about below:
Understanding the NHS and market fit
Understand how the NHS is structured, who the key decision-makers are, and how to align your healthcare innovation with real clinical and system needs:
Regulation, compliance, and data governance
Learn what regulatory approvals, NHS assurance processes, and data governance requirements are needed to safely bring innovation into the NHS:
Coming soon: Building a business case for NHS adoption
Develop a strong case for adoption, demonstrate value for money, and generate the evidence required by NHS commissioners:
- How do I build a business case for the NHS?
- What level of evidence does an NHS commissioner expect?
- How do I prove my innovation is worth adopting?
- Designing an NHS pilot
- Ongoing monitoring of an innovation
Coming soon: Adoption, implementation, and scale-up in the NHS
Explore how innovations move from pilot to adoption and scale, including implementation challenges and operational realities:
- Stages of adoption
- Preparing for adoption
- Preparing for scale-up
- Guaranteeing long-term sustainability
- How do contracts, funding, and outcomes change over time?
- When should I walk away from an NHS opportunity?
NHS procurement and routes to market
Navigate NHS procurement processes, funding opportunities, and the different routes to bringing an innovation to market: