We continue to drive digital transformation across Greater Manchester’s Integrated Care System including digital solutioning, design, delivery and coordinating the rollout of new digital programmes across the health and care system. Key highlights for 2022-23 include:

• Welcome to Dr Gareth Thomas, who joined the Greater Manchester health and care system in 2023 as Digital Innovation Director.
• How the GM Care Record is helping to transform care pathways and deliver more intelligence on the health and care needs of the population.
• Why Greater Manchester’s Secure Data Environment will be able to answer deeper questions about the region’s health and care beyond the pandemic.
• The rollout of Hospital at Home across Greater Manchester, a service which allows patients to get the care they need at home safely and conveniently, rather than being in hospital.

Development and deployment of innovation into practice using a range of capabilities including project management, business analysis, system engagement, public and clinical engagement, communications, evaluation and benefits realisation. Key highlights for 2022-23 include:

• The Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) team at Health Innovation Manchester have been delivering a range of projects to support the adoption and spread of proven innovations into health and care services, improving service efficiency, clinical practice and patient outcomes.
• Our work with national partners on a range of projects to spread innovation at pace and scale, including the early intervention of eating disorders, improving the diagnosis of ADHD, preventing and supporting the management of cardiovascular disease, the Rapid Uptake Products (RUP) programme, and getting the balance right in polypharmacy.
• How the Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP) is addressing local healthcare inequalities experienced by deprived and other under-served populations in Greater Manchester.

Operation of the academic health science centre, fostering academic partnerships, NIHR ARC-GM delivery and delivery of research domain-led projects. Key highlights for 2022-23 include:

• How research undertaken via the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC) and GM’s other research bodies continue to be pulled through HInM’s innovation pathway to provide a rich pipeline of evidence-based innovations that can be deployed at pace and scale.
• How NIHR ARC-GM is working with partners across the region to produce world-class research that is relevant, useful and applicable to local service needs and affects policy and practice within Greater Manchester and beyond.

Developing and delivering an industry strategy to maximise local benefits from industry capability and capacities, including partnerships with global and UK life sciences, med tech, digital and SMEs. Key highlights for 2022-23 include:

• An update on how we are transforming asthma care and outcomes in Greater Manchester
• How support of SMEs and industry partners, through our Innovation Nexus portal and a wide range of commercial support programmes including the R&I Health Accelerator programme, has aided the development of new products, technologies and innovative solutions that are ready for deployment.
• Announcement of the launch of a new multi-million pound health innovation accelerator focused on rapidly improving the diagnosis and treatment of disease across the 2.8m GM population.