Introducing Health Innovation South East Scotland (HISES)

Health Innovation South East Scotland (HISES) is an Innovation Test Bed set up by the Scottish Government Chief Scientists’ Office which forms part of national network created to deliver the Government’s vision to utilise the innovation process to deliver a healthier and wealthier nation for the future.

A Powerful Partnership
Formed through a collaboration of three NHS Boards— Borders, Fife and Lothian, with the latter taking on the role of lead host Board, HISES has a pivotal role in delivering innovative solutions to the health and social challenges, both regionally and nationally.

A Collaborative Approach

At the core of their approach to developing innovative solutions is doing this in collaboration with our staff, academia, industry partners and the third sector in working together to identify the problems faced by patients, staff and citizens in receiving / delivery high quality, effective and efficient health and care services—whilst also maximizing opportunities for individuals to better self-manage existing conditions as well as preventing their occurrence.

Mission
Their mission is to support and enable the future delivery of health and care services that when compared to the current provision of these are more effective, more efficient, of a higher quality (including more equitable access) and affordable within available resources.

From having developed, tested and then evaluated these new innovative solutions within the South East Region health and care services in collaboration with their stakeholders, including their staff, – they are confident that these will then have the potential for spread not just nationally but also globally.