NHS Innovation Challenge Prizes

A guide to the live challenges2012

9 Live Challenges• Better Management of Pregnancy• Reducing avoidable Medicines Waste• Control of Infection• Earlier Cancer Diagnosis• Emergency Care - right place, first time• Reducing avoidable use of Primary Care• Reducing Falls and Fall Injuries• Identification and Diagnosis of COPD • Improved Diagnostic Investigation

3 Winners announced in 2011

• Manchester Royal Infirmary for providing dialysis machines at home - £100k

• MRC, Cancer Cell Unit Cambridge for early diagnosis of cancer of the oesophagus - £50k

• NHS Bristol and ScriptSwitch for their work reducing wastage of prescribed nutritional medicine - £35k

Current Round closes on1st JUNE 2012!

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