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Latest News

Scottish Health Innovations Ltd is now InnoScot Health. News items prior to 20 June 2022 will reference our old identity.

A group of NHS Scotland staff, including midwives, nurses and porters with the appropriate green and blue scrubs. They are standing in a line in a hospital corridor, looking towards the camera and smiling.

‘It’s essential to fully engage with NHS staff challenges if we are to support a better healthcare tomorrow’

16/12/2024

Innovation Manager at InnoScot Health, Fiona Schaefer looks at how best to inspire fresh innovation from a time-poor workforce.

8 minutes

A festive message from InnoScot Health wishing people a happy new year, with a snowman and Christmas tree pictured.

InnoScot Health — dedicated to accelerating innovation in an exciting, ever-evolving new year

12/12/2024

Executive Chair of InnoScot Health, Graham Watson.

8 minutes

A healthcare professional working on a tablet, with a number of graphics overlayed in the foreground that align with healthcare provision; a cross, a pill, a syringe, etc.

National Treatment Centre programme offers vital new facilities — and innovation opportunities too

12/12/2024

Head of Innovation, Robert Rea considers fresh possibilities around national initiative.

8 minutes

Healthcare professionals standing in a line with their arms crossed, with hexagonal graphic healthcare elements superimposed in front of them.

InnoScot Health proud to play key role in NHS Lothian midwives’ ‘game-changing’ innovation for newborns

11/12/2024

Formal NHS Scotland partner InnoScot Health has played a key role in the development of ‘game-changing’ scrubs with a warm kangaroo-style pouch, allowing vital skin-to-skin contact for newborns.

6 minutes

Exterior of the University of Strathclyde's Technology and Innovation Centre.

Second Glasgow Tech Week is ‘vital and timely’

10/12/2024

Formal NHS Scotland partner InnoScot Health has championed the ‘vital and timely return’ of Glasgow Tech Week in 2025.

4 minutes

Two NHS Scotland nursing staff at a station in a hospital environment.

Scotland’s prestigious Nurse of the Year Awards set to shine a light on inspiring innovators

10/12/2024

Formal NHS Scotland partner InnoScot Health has welcomed the opening of nominations for the Nurse of the Year Awards and its championing of leading innovation.

4 minutes

A woman using a diabetes glucose monitor attached to the back of her arm.

‘Scotland must ensure it has its say in new consultation on medical device regulations’

04/12/2024

InnoScot Health has backed Scottish Government calls urging NHS and patient voices to be heard in response to a new public consultation on medical device regulations.

3 minutes

A group of surgeons performing surgery on a patient using innovative technology.

75% of Scottish cardiac centres now using same innovative tech to aid heart surgery

25/11/2024

A Glasgow-based company is pleased to announce that three out of four cardiac centres in Scotland are now using its innovative technology during heart surgery for better patient outcomes.

5 minutes

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