Bright ideas in health awards 2010

Entry into the Bright ideas in health awards 2010 has now closed.

Please click here for entry into this years competition.

The Bright ideas in health awards 2010 (delivered in conjunction with NHS North East as part of the Innovation Agenda) culminated in an awards evening on the 26th May 2010 held at the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead Hotel. The evening was hosted by Kim Inglis, with speeches by Stephen Singleton, Medical Director, NHS North East, and  Jim Mackie, Chief Executive,  Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.  The evening was a great success with 400 delegates, including NHS employees and representatives from the business community attending. The competition was judged by a panel chaired by Professor Sir Miles Irving, Chairman of NHS Innovations North.  Prize money totalling £20,000 was awarded on the evening.

The 2010 awards were sponsored by Newcastle Science City, UDL LLP Patent Attorneys, Marks and Clerk LLP Patent Attorneys, Hargreaves Elsworth Patent Attorneys, Skills for Health, and The Centre for Design Research at Northumbria University.

Professor Sir Miles Irving said of the awards:
"It has been another year of outstanding success in the search for new ways of improving our National Health Service.

"Innovation in healthcare covers a wide variety of activity, from laboratory research to the vast potential for innovation that lies in the minds of those that work at the front end, delivering NHS services.

"This year has seen a surge in entries which reflects the appreciation amongst staff that their ideas, whether a new device or a better way of delivering a service, are of relevance and will be taken seriously.

"So groundbreaking have been many of the submissions we received this year that the judging panel had difficulty in honing down on the entries to receive awards."

 For more information on the Bright ideas in health awards, please contact Sarah Black on 01915164400 or
email: Sarah.black@nhsinnovationsnorth.org.uk