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Supporting the South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw Integrated Care System through COVID-19

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Our pioneering Innovation Hub has been developed in partnership with South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw Integrated Care System ( ICS ). Its main purpose is to help the organisations in the ICS to share and articulate unmet needs and encourage collaboration to find innovative solutions to system wide challenges . In this article , Innovation Hub Director , Aejaz Zahid , explains how his team worked with the ICS to adopt new ways of working during the pandemic .

Aejaz Zahid , Innovation Hub Director
2020 began with a range of Innovation Hub led exemplar projects getting off the ground and starting to make an impact in the areas of Population Health , Urgent and Emergency Care and Workforce . With a strong ambition to foster a better culture of innovation across ICS partners and to develop a pipeline of model innovation projects , the Hub was also establishing a network of innovation ambassadors and planning a quarterly series of Innovation Lab forums designed to cultivate collaboration and build
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