Mike Wright

Mike is Head of Innovation at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, leading the CW Innovation, a collaboration between the trust and CW+. He works collaboratively with the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator to support the widespread adoption of innovation across the NHS with the aim of putting them into the hands of patients and staff more quickly. Prior to his current role, Mike was Programme Director for long-term conditions at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, building new approaches to tackling the social determinants of ill-health.

Prior to that he was Head of Health Investment, leading the establishment of the NHS’s first Investment Fund (the Bright Ideas Fund), Health Foundry, one of the UK’s first dedicated digital health co-working spaces, and investing in Europe’s first digital health accelerator, Healthbox. Mike has supported the development of innovation programmes within public sector organisations since 2001 including at the Centre for Applied Microbiological Research, the Harwell Research Centre, and Culham Fusion.