NESTA-Young Foundation Health Innovation Accelerator Workshop: How can we innovate to improve the NHS?
  
Join us for a workshop and Open Space session to explore how innovation can be used to improve the NHS. We have selected you as one of only fifty NHS innovators to participate in this ground-breaking event, and very much hope you can attend.
  
The day will begin with an advance view of the Young Foundation’s latest thinking on social innovation methods, presented by Geoff Mulgan, the Director of the Young Foundation and formerly director of the Government’s Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister’s office.
  
We will then use an Open Space format to discuss how innovation offers solutions to important NHS problems. The Open Space format gives you the opportunity to define topics of interest from your own perspective and to contribute to solving problems proposed by others. We envisage the discussion will cover both the hows and whys of innovating within the NHS, and the application of innovation to specific issues, such as delivering healthcare in innovative settings, providing better support for those with long-term conditions, encouraging healthy behaviours, and how to use happiness to improve health.
  
The workshop is free of charge to invited participants; your contribution will be in terms of experience, energy, enthusiasm and ideas. In return, the workshop offers significant benefits:
• The opportunity to gain new insights on important challenges facing you in your day-to-day work by discussing them with other innovative practitioners
• The possibility to turn innovative ideas into potential social ventures: the NESTA-Young Foundation Health Innovation Accelerator has funds to invest into attractive innovative ventures, and sees this workshop as a source of ideas
• The chance to influence and contribute to leading-edge research on social and health innovation, via the Young Foundation.
  
  
We very much hope you will be able to join us for the day. If you cannot attend, please let us know by return, so that your place can made available to another participant.
  
If you want to know more about the Open Space event, please contact Ann Macfadyen on 020 8709 9274. For more information about the NESTA-Young Foundation Health Innovation Accelerator, please visit our website: (link)