Enabling innovation in healthcare
Working in partnership with our NHS colleagues, we are committed to driving forward new and innovative ideas that transform the experience of care for patients at the Trust’s hospitals. By enabling NHS staff to think openly, develop new ways of working and implement change, we are helping to keep our hospitals at the cutting edge of healthcare. Over the last year we have provided funding to support a wide range of innovative projects across the Trust’s hospitals as well as working together with a number of new partners to provide better health and wellbeing for people living in our local communities. To help us achieve this, we said we would: • establish ourselves as a leading partner at the cutting edge of healthcare • fund major transformation projects within and beyond the Trust • build partnerships with key health and third sector organisations to expand the impact our work can have. In 2020/21, we: • awarded two rounds of funding totalling £1.3m as part of our new grants programme, Innovate at Imperial •
worked in partnership with the Trust to develop and launch a new funding programme, Compassionate Communities, extending vital support to community-led health and wellbeing initiatives
• awarded a £1m grant to support the development of a ‘hybrid’ operating theatre at St Mary’s Hospital • 18
partnered with two other NHS charities to fund pioneering research into a rare children’s inflammatory condition caused by Covid-19. IMPERIAL HEALTH CHARITY
£645k awarded to support healthcare projects in the first funding round of Innovate at Imperial
£675k awarded to support healthcare projects in the second funding round of Innovate at Imperial
