What we do
Health Innovation Manchester works at the forefront of healthcare innovation to discover, develop and deploy new healthcare solutions. We harness the power of the NHS, wider health and care system, industry and academia within our region and more widely to address major challenges and tackle inequalities.
We are fast becoming an international leader in health innovation and digital healthcare, transforming the health & wellbeing of citizens across Greater Manchester.
Partnership is the core of our work and through strong relationships and collaborative working we bring together expertise from across the system to turn great ideas into healthcare solutions.
From clinical trials and research to implementation, academic research to healthcare analytics and digital tools, our work is wide-ranging, exciting and makes a difference to people’s lives.
We aim to make Greater Manchester one of the most innovative health and social care systems around the world, with rapid cycle from innovation to delivering population health benefits at scale. Our exceptional academic and clinical assets, booming life sciences sector and the massive opportunity of devolved accountability for health and social are just some of the factors that put us in a unique position.
Health Innovation Manchester works with innovators to discover, develop and deploy new solutions that improve the health and wellbeing of Greater Manchester’s 2.8m citizens.
"We are fast becoming an international leader in health innovation and digital healthcare, transforming the health & wellbeing of citizens across Greater Manchester.”
Who we are
Health Innovation Manchester brings together the best of the NHS with a culture that champions new ideas and innovation.
We’re based at Citylabs, which is on the Manchester University Hospital NHS
Foundation Trust (MFT) Oxford Road site and the Oxford Road corridor, creating a world-class hub for health innovation and precision medicine, part of Europe’s largest clinical academic campus. It’s a great place to work, with easy access to Manchester City Centre and surrounded by health and university facilities.
We’ve embraced agile working, with staff combining on-site and remote working, flat multi-disciplinary teams, rapid delivery of benefit through ‘sprints’ and a real focus on user-centric design. This means that we can come together when it matters most and promote a healthy work-life balance.
Our culture is inclusive and welcomes anyone with a passion for innovation and a desire to make a difference. We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity.
We are continuously working to improve our collective offer to staff in areas like health and wellbeing, benefits and flexible working, and are positively challenging traditional organisational barriers and cultures which get in the way of care delivery.
We want you to be able to enjoy working in environments which are efficient responsive and holistic and we are empowering teams to create the conditions for this.
"Health Innovation Manchester is proud to hold a formidable Board of Directors with highly established leadership careers spanning healthcare, academia, industry and wider public sector, both in the UK and globally.”
Our board
Health Innovation Manchester is proud to hold a formidable Board of Directors with highly established leadership careers spanning healthcare, academia, industry and wider public sector, both in the UK and globally. Our Board provides strategic direction and oversight to the organisation and it is chaired by Rowena Burns. It includes Directors from our executive team, non-executive directors and representatives from our key stakeholders in GM. Together, they help ensure we will deliver our mission to become an international leader in accelerating innovation that transforms the health and wellbeing of our citizens. More information about our board members is available on our website.
About MFT
Health Innovation Manchester is hosted by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), the largest acute Trust in England, which brings together ten hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, with a workforce of over 28,000 staff. MFT is one of the major academic research centres in England, with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. For more information about MFT, visit their website.
"Our culture is inclusive and welcomes anyone with a passion for innovation and a desire to make a difference.”
Diversity Matters
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We welcome all applications, especially those from underrepresented communities, including people with a disability, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.
