Supporting post-pandemic priorities

The NHS Insights Prioritisation Programme (NIPP) was set up to accelerate the evaluation and implementation of promising innovations – selected for their potential to support the evolution of post-pandemic ways of working, build service resilience and deliver ongoing benefits to patients.

Working together to generate insights for ICSs

Launched in 2021 by NHS England and the NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC), the programme invited local health innovation networks and National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaborations (NIHR ARCs) to bid for a share of £4.2m investment to test and evaluate promising innovation within their Integrated Care Systems (ICSs).

Individual health innovation networks were already linked with their corresponding local NIHR Applied Research Collaborations. NIPP presented an opportunity for them to work closely together on a specific project, benefitting from each other’s unique skills and links with system partners.

Each of the Health Innovation Network and NIHR ARC projects aimed to demonstrate a positive impact on health inequalities, focusing on four priority areas:

• Remote consultation
• Remote monitoring
• New approaches to service delivery
• Health and social care workforce innovation

The programme ran from November 2021 to March 2023. You can read the outcomes and learning from the programme in our summary report, which also includes valuable insights into how these innovations can be taken up in other health and care systems.

Read the NIPP programme report.

The NIPP projects

There are 14 projects which ran across England, you can download the West Midlands report here.

The reports from other regions, and additional resources, can be found here.