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…
Scaling innovation: a collective endeavour
…the effort it takes to successfully adopt an innovation. By recognising and responding to the needs of adopters, it has successfully spread the Macmillan Cancer Nurse Specialist role across the…
Helping you adapt and adopt innovation in children’s social care
The event explored how to adapt and adopt North Yorkshire County Council’s No Wrong Door model, an asset-based approach to working with young people with complex needs who are in…
Sarah Ward
Sarah works across Innovation Unit’s International Education portfolio, blending inclusive and culturally responsive approaches to research, service design methods, and innovation adoption and implementation. She is deeply committed to supporting…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
Always Hope: Transforming the lives of care experienced young adults in the UK justice system
…adopt these collaborative approaches. The Past “A lack of confidence, knowledge and awareness”Practitioner at Coventry City Council Throughout the pilot, our partners told us that offering support to care experienced…
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…
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…
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…
Looking ‘under the bonnet’ of No Wrong Door
…in numbers of looked after children, as well as significant financial savings. Adopting and adapting No Wrong Door Innovation Unit coaches are currently working with teams in Salford, Trafford, Wigan,…
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…
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 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…
Scaling up innovation requires action at multiple levels
…to support spread. First, while the current system primarily rewards innovation, there needs to be greater recognition and support for adopters of innovation too. It is tempting to think that…
Against the Odds: Successfully scaling innovation in the NHS
…better environment for innovations to spread, including: 1. The ‘adopters’ of innovation need greater recognition and support. The current system primarily rewards innovators, but those taking up innovations often need…
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…
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…
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…
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…