Meridian Celebration of Innovation - WM AHSN Awards Evening

The Midlands Health Alliance were invited to attend the Meridian Celebration of Innovation - WM AHSN Awards Evening.

This event is to celebrate the achievements of individuals and organisations across the region in delivering an improved healthcare and generating economic benefit across the West Midlands.

The award categories were:

Digital or Artificial Intelligence Innovation of the Year Award – This award aims to recognise the most innovative and forward-thinking use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry

MidTECH Award for Best NHS-Developed Innovation – This award aims to recognise the best new medical technology inventions and innovations coming from within the NHS in the region, which have been designed to solve a problem or meet a need and have commercial potential. This award has a cash prize to help advance the innovation.

Patient Safety Award – This award aims to recognise those innovations that demonstrate a strong safety culture that continually reduce avoidable harm.

Adoption of Innovation Award – This award aims to recognise innovations that have undertaken a robust evaluation and utilised those results to implement the innovation into every day care.

Economic Development Award – This award is to recognise the importance of economic development growth.

Meridian Award - This award recognises innovators or organisations who have gone above and beyond who have truly nurtured an innovation adoption culture where good ideas are quickly identified and spread within and beyond the boundaries of the organisation.

Congratulations to all of the winners and runners up but also all of the people nominated for this great award celebration that MHA had the opportunity to attend.