Leading healthcare innovation together
Our national collective of 15 AHSNs is commissioned by NHS England and the Government’s Office for Life Sciences. We’re also a partner in the NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative, which brings together key organisations to streamline the adoption of new innovations in healthcare.
Partnering nationally and locally
Together, AHSNs work across the entire spectrum of organisations that operate within health and care innovation.
Each AHSN works with a number of partners in their local system, and we work with many more on a national level. Although there are too many to mention here, we run many collaborative programmes with the following organisations:
How AHSNs work with ICSs
Find out more about how AHSNs are supporting their local integrated care systems (ICSs) by reading our case studies that have been published by the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC).
Initiatives we support
We’re also a partner in a number of other core initiatives that support health and care innovation. To learn more about these programmes, see our dedicated page.
Commercial agreements
While our overarching funding comes from NHS England and the Government’s Office for Life Sciences, for some programmes of work we develop joint working agreements with commercial organisations. In some instances this includes additional funding which enables the AHSNs and NHS to reach more patients, while ensuring the health and care system benefit from the very best innovations in health and care.
Known as a ‘transfer of value’ this could be a direct payment from industry to a regional AHSN towards an AHSN project or programme, or a secondment of staff from industry to support AHSN projects.
AHSN commercial agreements
For transparency, each AHSN publishes information about individual transfers of value on their websites including reasons for entering the partnership.
See individual sites below
- East Midlands
- Eastern
- Health Innovation Manchester
- Health Innovation Network
- Imperial College Health Partners
- Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- North East and North Cumbria
- Innovation Agency: AHSN for the North West Coast
- Oxford
- South West
- UCL Partners
- Wessex
- West Midlands
- West of England
- Yorkshire and Humber