“The Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust (LCFT) Innovation Incubator”[Greenhouse]

What is an Innovation Incubator?

Innovation is about taking a new approach to your work which will result in an improvement in quality, a reduction in cost and/or a time saving. It can be a new way of doing a process, a new product or even an entirely new service.

An Incubator in this sense tends to be used for the starting of new businesses. They are safe and supportive environments which help take entrepreneurs from having ideas to building successful businesses.

At LCFT the Innovation Incubator will help staff and service users to develop their innovative idea put it into practice and share the learning with others. It will do this by:

 

Why do we need one?

We all have ideas which, if we were able to put into practice, would make things better for LCFT service users.

What all these ideas have in common is that most of the time they stay as ideas.The ideas that we have in the shower in the morning rarely survive the journey into work. There are few obvious incentives to Innovate and as an organisation we often inadvertently put barriers in the way of people trying to make things better.

The Innovation Incubator will nurture those ideas by listening, providing funding, advice, support and recognition for people who step forward with a great new idea. The Incubator will also permanently remove barriers where these are an unnecessary barrier to making things better.

What do I need to do?

We want to keep this simple All you need to join the Incubator is a new idea and the enthusiasm to turn it into a reality. There is no limit on the number of great ideas we are willing to support and the first group of 10 Innovators. will join the Incubator and receive their investment from January. To be part of the first group you will need to:

Another group of 10 Innovators will be selected in June.

What happens then?

Once you’ve been selected all we ask is that:

Any tips?

There are no more rules but it would be worth considering:

It takes just a few minutes to submit an idea. Start texting!

“The Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust (LCFT) Innovation Incubator”[Greenhouse] What is an Innovation Incubator? Innovation is about taking a new approach to your work which will result in an improvement in quality, a reduction in cost and/or a time saving. It can be a new way of doing a process, a new product or even […]

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