As part of the Social Spark portfolio of projects, Anglia Ruskin University’s NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme team is delivering a health innovation programme.
This programme aims to:
• Enable participants to gain a greater understanding of the problems affecting health in Basildon and explore how these could be solved.
• Help participants understand how innovation and entrepreneurship can bring about change and improvement to support organisations.
• Support participants to develop skills in research, understanding, and articulation of problems and subsequent idea generation.
• Create a learning environment where problems are solved, entrepreneurial ideas generated, and innovative solutions developed to improve the landscape of health in Basildon.
• Build an ecosystem of education and support, ultimately helping the community to make healthy choices throughout their lives in Basildon.
What will participants learn? This free and CPD accredited programme will deliver:
• Learning about problem solving and idea generation, using innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Skill development to research, formulate and communicate participants’ ideas to an audience.
• The opportunity to learn and understand the current innovation landscape in health, using action learning techniques.
• The opportunity to meet experienced Clinical Entrepreneurs, who can share their experiences of innovating in health.
• Access to group mentoring sessions to help participants develop ideas and projects.
How is the programme delivered? The Social Spark Health Innovation Programme will be delivered online, with some content delivered in the early evening, over a three-week period and will begin at the end of January 2024. Participants will need to commit to around 15 hours of learning during this time.
Who can apply? Individuals working for organisations with a health focus (in healthcare, social care, social enterprise, charities and the public sector) and are located in Basildon or provide services to Basildon, that have a problem that needs to be addressed or ideas that they would like to explore in the context of their role, organisation or sector they work in.
