Impact stories
Read these stories, which show how we are supporting the most promising innovations to benefit those who most need them.
Supporting safer care from the very beginning
World Patient Safety Day – 17 September 2025 – “Safe care for every newborn and every child”
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Evaluating the Cancer (P)rehab pathway in BLMK
Health Innovation East’s real-world evaluation team worked with BLMK ICB to understand the impact of their cancer (p)rehabilitation service.
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Delivering optimised lower limb wound care
Health Innovation East led the Transforming Wound Care programme, on behalf of the Health Innovation Network, to improve healing for patients with lower limb wounds.
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Healthy You: a service evaluation informing the recommissioning of Cambridgeshire Integrated Behaviour Change Service
Health Innovation East provided insights and recommendations to help inform decisions around Healthy You re-procurement
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Accelerating COPD detection
TidalSense’s stellar 2024 sees regulatory approval, ICS adoption and significant funding.
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Exploring the future of mental health: Tend VR – mindfulness based cognitive therapy
Delivering better mental wellbeing globally
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Giving preterm infants the best start in life
Optimisation and stabilisation of the preterm infant
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The MAPE project: improving how children and young people take medication for epilepsy
The project encompassed a rapid literature review exploring the views of children and young people with an epilepsy diagnosis and their parents and carers and a horizon scan identifying technologies to improve adherence.
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High-impact findings in Health Innovation East authored academic paper
Health Innovation East’s bespoke academic writing support has provided vital evidence on the analysis of patient records for earlier disease identification.
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Improving access to high-impact neurorehabilitation
Strolll is bringing seamless immersive therapy into the homes of patients with neurological conditions.
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Pioneering solution for women’s health
Innovative all-female scientist team tackles women’s health challenges
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Innovative pilot makes everyday physical activity a medicine: delivering health impact in long COVID recovery
An innovation being piloted across Suffolk and North East Essex (SNEE) makes people’s everyday physical activity a medicine. KiActiv® is an accessible and effective digital service that supports people to optimise their everyday physical activity to improve their health and wellbeing.
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Gut reaction
Combining trusted research environments to enable the development of better, more personalised treatments
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Detecting lung cancer earlier
Using EarlyCDT Lung to screen for cancer in primary care settings
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Identifying deterioration remotely
Remote monitoring in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Designing a healthy future with citizens at the heart
Ensuring a healthy new town has strong foundations based on patient insights
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The ESCAPE-pain programme
Delivering self-management exercise programmes to patients with osteoarthritis
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Reducing anxiety in children through virtual reality with Little Journey
The Little Journey smartphone app uses VR to help reduce anxiety in children getting ready for surgical procedures to familiarise themselves with the hospital.
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