A free to join, CPD-accredited webinar programme is aiming to equip Scotland’s entrepreneurial-minded NHS staff both present and future with essential skills to accelerate their healthcare innovation ambitions.
Healthcare professionals and student clinicians with a passion for forward-thinking ideas are urged to join the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme’s ‘Innovate Health: The Foundation Series’. The standalone foundation course is designed “to inspire and empower healthcare students and professionals to think creatively and explore innovative solutions to the challenges facing healthcare today”.
Formal NHS Scotland partner InnoScot Health is delighted to be supporting CEP and is encouraging forward-thinking health service staff to get involved in the online sessions from Thursday 25 September.
Head of Project Management at InnoScot Health, Gillian Henderson says The Foundation Series is “an ideal platform to start learning more about the transformational opportunities that are available to all, and which being part of Scotland’s CEP drive represents”.
She believes the free sessions will “help to hone the insight and know-how required to successfully develop innovative ideas which complement and enhance daily health service learnings”.
Gillian insists it is “the exact kind of initiative which NHS Scotland needs at the moment”.
The series of engaging webinars introduces key concepts in innovation and entrepreneurship from experienced founders and healthcare professionals.
They will help to develop the foundational knowledge needed to kickstart innovation journeys which could help to build a better NHS Scotland.
Autumn 2025 dates have been announced with all four online sessions taking place from 6-7.30pm on:
- Thursday 25 September 2025
‘Introduction to Innovation in Healthcare’ explores the concept of innovation and recognises that it extends beyond technology or product development while underlining the message that everyone has the potential to be an innovator, regardless of their role or background. - Thursday 2 October 2025
‘Identifying a Problem and Generating an Innovative Idea’ aims to help budding innovators to understand and focus in on the problem they are attempting to solve, while researching their marketplace and landscape, customers and users, and identifying where their innovation or idea sits. - Tuesday 7 October 2025
‘Lean Canvas Approach to Planning’ encourages participation in a lean canvas exercise to help refine and develop innovations further. Lean canvas allows a problem-solution strategy to be easily described on paper, helping to put ideas into perspective and serve as a guide for startups to validate their hypotheses. - Thursday 23 October 2025
‘Pitching and Articulating Your Innovative Idea’ is set to be a highly interactive session which offers exercises to help perfect pitches, honing confidence to articulate ideas to a range of stakeholders – from peers to potential investors.
To receive a CPD certificate and certificate of completion, budding entrepreneurs must attend all four sessions.
InnoScot Health is proud to be part of a collaborative group of organisations – alongside The Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre (DHI), NHS Education for Scotland (NES), Techscaler, Scottish Enterprise, and Chief Scientist Office (CSO) – supporting Scottish participation in CEP, delivered by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) and is part of the NHS Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC).
Gillian continued: “CEP is truly inspirational for anyone within NHS Scotland who is looking to become an agent of change, and we’re delighted to have the opportunity of continuing to offer our unique expertise to its ambitious, progressive participants. It is vital that Scottish healthcare entrepreneurs are empowered to realise their potential through fresh learnings. That’s where CEP comes in – the biggest entrepreneurial workforce development programme of its kind.”
Potential participants are encouraged to reach out to the InnoScot Health team if they would like to discuss their CEP eligibility.
