CEP Innovate Health: The Foundation Series
Core skills for tomorrow’s healthcare innovators.
Are you a healthcare professional or student with a passion for innovation? Join us for the CEP Innovate Health: The Foundation Series, a free, CPD-accredited webinar programme designed to equip you with the essential skills to begin your journey into healthcare innovation.
About us
What is the Foundation Series?
Delivered by the award-winning team behind the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, this 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.
The programme includes a series of engaging webinars and workshops that introduce key concepts in innovation and entrepreneurship. You’ll hear from experienced founders and healthcare professionals, gain insight into the startup ecosystem, and develop the foundational knowledge needed to begin your own innovation journey.
The programme
How is it delivered?
The course is delivered entirely online through four interactive webinars, each focusing on a core aspect of healthcare innovation.
Autumn 2025 dates have taken place. To view the recording please follow the links below to our YouTube Channel.
To receive your CPD certificate and certificate of completion, you must attend all four sessions. Registration can be found below.
CEP Innovate Health: The Foundation Series
Session One: Introduction to Innovation in Healthcare
Thursday 25th September 2025 | 6:00 PM – 7:30PM
This session will explore the concept of innovation and recognise that it extends beyond technology or product development.
Realise that everyone has the potential to be an innovator, regardless of their role or background.
Session Three: Lean Canvas Approach to Planning
Tuesday 7th October 2025 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
This session will take you through a lean canvas exercise to help you refine and develop your innovation further. Lean canvas allows a problem-solution strategy to be easily described on paper. It helps to put ideas into perspective and serve as a guide for startups to validate their hypotheses. The goal of a lean canvas is to help you pre-empt problems with their innovations to ensure greater success.
Session Two: Identifying a Problem and Generating an Innovative Idea
Thursday 2nd October 2025 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
This session will help you to understand and focus the problem you are trying to solve, help you to research your marketplace and landscape, your customers and users and where your innovation or idea sits.
Session Four: Pitching and Articulating Your Innovation Idea
Thursday 23rd October 2025 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
This interactive session will take you through exercises to help you perfect your pitch. This session aims to give you confidence to articulate your ideas to a range of stakeholders, from your peers to potential investors.
Who can apply?
This course is open to:
- Healthcare professionals (both clinical and non-clinical)
- Healthcare students enrolled in courses that could lead to a career in the NHS
Eligible courses include, but are not limited to:
- Medicine
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Paramedic Science
- Pharmacy
- Vision and Hearing Sciences
- Clinical Science
If you’re committed to improving healthcare and curious about innovation, this programme is for you.
To apply simply register via the links above. Please note that to receive your CPD points and certificate of completion you need to attend all four sessions in full.