Innovation Hub
Bradford District & Craven Health and Care Partnership hosts one of four innovation hubs funded by The Health Foundation’s Adopting Innovation programme which builds the knowledge, skills, and confidence within health systems to successfully adopt and adapt proven innovations.
Our hub is embedded with the Bradford District and Craven Health and Care Partnership and hosted by Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust. We act as one with partners, staff, and local communities to bring our shared priorities to life. Where helpful, we draw in support from regional or national innovators and other partners.
We encourage implementation of all kinds of innovations – ways of working, care models, technologies, products – that are evidenced to have potential to improve outcomes and to address health inequalities.
The language around innovation in health can be confusing, in the Bradford District and Craven Innovation Hub we use the simple descriptions set out in The Health Foundation’s 2018 report, The Spread Challenge:
“New approaches, practices, treatments, technologies and services that aim to improve health care.”
Our mission
Our mission is to make it easier for health and care partners to adopt and embed innovations that reduce inequalities and improve outcomes.
Our vision
We aim to nurture a culture across all our partner organisations that encourages people to share their ideas, makes it easier for people to develop their capabilities, and helps them access support. We help our partners to identify, test, and embed innovations (from within our place and beyond) and adapt them to our local context.
By adapting proven or promising innovations to our context, we can improve health outcomes and reduce inequalities for local people.
Our function
The Innovation Hub will organise its core services to maximise our impact around three key objectives – champion, connect, and support.
Champion
We champion innovation adoption, demonstrate the benefits and provide guidance on implementation.
We bring innovation to life through sharing stories that connect hearts and minds.
We stimulate creative thinking and nurture conditions where people feel able to experiment with new ideas and participate in adopting innovations.
Connect
We connect people to information, learning, networks, and resources to support health and care innovation in Bradford District and Craven.
We build a community of practice that will make it easier for everyone to access the collective knowledge and capabilities in the system.
We take a collaborative approach to maximise impact.
Support
We support our people to act as one and prioritise opportunities to make the most positive change.
We are flexible with our resources, using them across the system in ways that maximise impact.
We share knowledge, ideas, and connections to help people implement innovations and improve outcomes.
Get involved
To learn more about our Innovation Hub and our planned workplan for 2023/2024 please download this information document (PDF)