Three key learnings on how to change UK mental health systems for the better
…grown, and Innovation Unit is now supporting Joined Up Care Derbyshire, Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership and York’s Connecting our City Partnership to adapt and adopt Living Well systems. Celebrating…
Frances Flaxington
…She was part of the team assisting local authorities in Greater Manchester to adopt and adapt No Wrong Door for children and young people in or on the edge of…
Charlotte Billington
…in their co-design & creation, development of an ambitious multi-disciplinary approach to Alternative Provision, and a large scale adopt and adapt programme across the North West to drive regional innovation…
Janice Nicholson
…Door model both within North Yorkshire County Council, then more widely to other local authority areas as part of an ‘adopt and adapt’ and sector led improvement approach. This incorporated…
Helping you adapt and adopt innovation in children’s social care
they embark on journey to adapt and adopt No Wrong Door. If you would like to know more about the support available for adapting No Wrong Door to your context,…
Mission accomplished? Not quite.
…which tried and tested innovations they could adopt and adapt to deliver better outcomes for children and young people, and better value for money for the system. This kind of…
Innovating our way through a pandemic: the Strengthening Families, Protecting Children programme
…to adopt and adapt their innovation. In March 2020, IU, alongside Mutual Ventures and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), joined the partnership delivering the programme. Drawing on our…
Transforming care experiences for young people in Sheffield
– what we, at Innovation Unit, call ‘adopt and adapt’. One such project is the adoption and adaptation of North Yorkshire County Council’s ‘No Wrong Door’ (NWD) model of children’s…
Reform of NHS England: Innovation Unit’s view
…ideas, and then spread and scale those ideas; we then help others adopt and adapt innovations that have been successful elsewhere; and we play the role of learning partner that…
Scaling innovation: a collective endeavour
…not just born, but can grow and scale, and into which great ideas from elsewhere are adapted and adopted. Taking an idea from elsewhere is hard work, no matter how…
Sarah Ward
is supporting NHS providers in England to build knowledge, skills and confidence to create the cultures and mechanisms to successfully adapt and adopt innovations in their health and care systems….
Aimee Hadrup
…public sector to adopt new ways of working that will help meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. Aimee holds a Masters degree in Public Health and is interested…
Jahaan Abdurahman
…Network team, where she facilitates a growing understanding of how NHS organisations can effectively adopt and implement anchor missions. Before joining Innovation Unit, Jahaan had diverse career experiences. Her early…
Looking ‘under the bonnet’ of No Wrong Door
…your adopting and adapting efforts If you would like to know more about the support available for adapting No Wrong Door to your context, please contact Cath Dillon – cath.dillon@innovationunit.org…
We need more and different perspectives, skills and experience to meet the challenges ahead
…and help to spread innovation, to adopt and adapt innovations that have already been shown to be successful and enable place-based transformation that really sticks. So far so familiar. In…
Working at Innovation Unit might be your next big adventure
…innovation programmes that identify, nurture and help to spread innovation, to adopt and adapt innovations that have already been shown to be successful and enable place-based transformation that really sticks….
Innovation Unit appointed to the Aotearoa New Zealand All of Government (AoG) Consultancy Panel
…that deliver results for our clients and partners: Our model for scale: Coming up with a great new solution is just the beginning: enabling others to adopt and adapt it…
Lateral leadership and custodianship – a legacy of Covid?
…In some ways, as we adopt and adapt new ways of doing old things, Zoom and Teams are reintroducing clunky old decision-making processes and re-establishing sectoral divisions. That’s why, in…
Christine Owen
…with organisations and public systems to release the power of communities and people closest to issues to adapt and take action in an increasingly complex world. Christine established, grew and…
Against the Odds: Successfully scaling innovation in the NHS
…and systems around the world to adapt, adopt and scale innovations that deliver lasting impact and reduce costs. To create the kind of impact we want to have in the…
Mindsets for Social Innovation
…actually work and therefore be adopted. It’s important we hear from these people early and often to avoid creating solutions that are based on assumptions. When we do things ‘with’…
IUANZ Learning Series: Insights on Thriving Young People/Rangatahi
…the future state of work and education for young people. The following word cloud represents this discussion and the key insights that arose. 3 KEY THEMES: ADAPTABILITY Adaptability has been…
A perfect storm: What the end of the rental moratorium says about the state of social housing in Western Australia (part 1 of 2)
…is a need for reform in our social housing sector. We need to adopt innovative strategic approaches to increase the supply of affordable housing. We need to build a resilient…
New solutions, impact at scale: innovation for the many not the few
Understanding why things haven’t worked is incredibly helpful. For instance Adoption and spread of innovation in the NHS offers an analysis of relative spending on innovation and adoption, which delivers…
Tender opportunity: Evaluator for the Living Well UK programme
…three-year programme to adapt and adopt a Living Well system for better adult mental health in four different sites across the UK. Through this programme, Innovation Unit and Big Lottery…
Innovation Unit welcomes Heather Rolinson as Director
…further and focus on working with whole systems and places to adopt, adapt and scale innovations that deliver lasting impact and reduce costs.”Matthew Horne Chief Executive “I am delighted to…
Scaling innovation twitter chat
…scaling innovations. Ways to do this include the following. The ‘adopters’ of innovation need greater recognition and support. The current system primarily rewards innovators, but those taking up innovations often…
Innovation Unit Australia is hiring!
…to lead social innovation projects and our strategic design practice in Australia. As an organisation, we have adopted service design as a practice. We are now looking for a leader…
Adopting Innovation to improve health and care
Innovation Unit is working with four health and care systems to set up innovation hubs where they can develop knowledge, skills and confidence to identify, adapt and adopt the innovations…
Always Hope: Transforming the lives of care experienced young adults in the UK justice system
…worked and adapted the model to create best practice. This has resulted in the creation of our Handbook and Manual to assist Local Authorities, Prison, Probation and other partners to…
Green energy, local jobs, warm homes
…‘best practice’.) Some neighbouring local authorities in other parts of South Wales admitted they would struggle to adopt it. It was swimming against the tide of local government outsourcing, privatisation…
Disruptive learning in and from a crisis
…personnel and officers/practitioners as colleagues; adopt co-production as a core and common practice; support flexible home and community-based working. Innovation is supposed to be disruptive Remember the Stephen Fry examples…
What the Voice teaches us about co-design
One of our key principles that we adopt across all our work is listening to and amplifying the voices of people most impacted. It seems impossible, then, that we would…
How edtech can transform learning for the better
…country’s eduLab–schools that are tasked with developing ICT innovations so that they can be adopted by schools across the system–has adopted better and more advanced data technology to help in…
Greater Manchester Guide: Developing Asset Based Approaches to Primary Care
…to make asset based primary care work in practice, and what it would take to adopt it, not just in isolated pockets but across a whole neighbourhood, system or region….
Scaling up innovation requires action at multiple levels
…and resources to implement it, and to do the hard work of adapting the innovation to make it work in their own context. Innovators and adopters will also often need…
Human-scale at Scale – Cultivating new education cultures
…protocols in new adopter sites – a more cultivating, gardening notion of change. There exists at worst a gap in understanding and at best an underestimation of the role culture…
Patients must be at the heart of the NHS – and of innovation
…doing their research to be DrDoctor’s first adopter. Committed work with patients to deeply understand their needs is in itself an adoption mechanism, and models a way of creating change…
Trapped on site: scaling new practices in Australian schools
…to commit to adopting the innovations but become more involved over time. Active engagement is key. For example, involving potential early adopters in adapting and evolving new practices through activities…
Is the UK in Need of a Micro School Revolution?
…by definition rigid) industrial set-up. Neither tends to end well. The English education context is just not conducive to innovation: based on a narrow, inflexible and unadaptive definition of success,…
Sarah Gillinson Interviews Paul Miller – Bethnal Green Ventures
…adapt with relative ease, and others cannot escape and suffer daily. For BGV the question becomes how can tech ventures help bridge these divides? And the same must be true…
The edtech litmus test
…Technologies UCL Knowledge Lab 2. ADAPTABILITY “Adaptability is key. Can the teacher and student locally adapt the technology to be used in an engaging way with others around them? Technology…
Will the UK Metro Mayors change British Politics?
…the solution Testing out (prototyping) ideas early to learn and adapt Collaborating within departments, with local government in other cities, and with partners outside government The role Mayors play But…
Named Social Worker Update
…qualified in 2011, I have always worked under austerity measures and working in 3 different local authorities in this time, I’ve seen how different teams cope and adapt to this….
How Social Innovation is Deeply Māori
…to adapt quickly and increase accessibility to participate. Manaakitanga (noun) hospitality, kindness, generosity, support – the process of showing respect, generosity and care for others. “He tangata takahi manuhiri, he…
Transition Design
…the shared visions you’ve crafted, deliberately creating the conditions for each other’s success Learn, reflect and adapt both projects and the visions they’re aimed at over time It sounds simple…
Commissioning Innovation
…about what their funds will support. Overly directive commissioning stifles innovation by limiting experimentation with new practices or adaptation of an approach to the needs of a specific place or…