This challenge is being launched by South Central SHA. It is looking to all sectors - both within and outside the NHS and including industry to bring new technologies and new practice to bear on the achievement of an ambitious target of a 20% reduction in admissions to hospital within the next 2 years.

• Successful responses will offer the following benefits:
• Efficiency - responsive to the quality and productivity agenda
• Scale - wide impact
• Acceptability - improves patient and staff experience
• Cost - sound return on the investment
• Pace - rapid results
• Evidence - clinically acceptable

Responses to the challenge are likely to include proposals to increase the scale and pace of uptake of current technologies and innovative practice and also proposals for new technologies and practice.

This challenge will be shared with all sectors including: the NHS, social care organisations, the voluntary sector, industry, and the emerging Health Innovation and Education Clusters (HIECs). It is open to all comers, including organisations not currently engaged in the health sector.

Have you got an innovative approach that could contribute to a reduction in hospital admissions of 20%?

Your offer might use technology that is established in health care or be from another field but with transferable benefits. You might know of innovative practices from inside or outside the NHS that have made services more efficient and effective for users.