The new NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement was launched on 1 July 2005 by Health Minister, Jane Kennedy. The NHS Institute’s role will be to lead the way in encouraging modernisation, innovation and learning in the NHS and this will result in an increased uptake of new healthcare products, treatments and procedures. Above all, the NHS Institute will improve care offered to patients.
New NHS Institute pledges improvement
The Institute will focus on a small number of big priorities at any one time. The initial priorities for the Institute will be reducing MRSA and healthcare associated infection, achieving the 18-week waiting target, improving productivity in the NHS, and innovation in care outside hospitals and of long term conditions.
Jane Kennedy said: “The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement has the opportunity to deliver real benefits to staff and patients.
“The NHS must work towards a wholly transformed service, which delivers value for money and puts patients truly at its centre by addressing their concerns around issues such as infection control.
“I hope that from the outset the NHS Institute will rise to these challenges by making the best use of the skills, thinking and resources that it has within the NHS in order to lead the way by recommending changes that establish best practice across the NHS.”
