Similarly the NHS National Innovation Centre
(2011) works nationally and internationally with
innovators in industry, academia and the NHS to speed the development and diffusion of healthcare technology
innovations. Taking both the NHS Institute for Innovation
and the Improvement and National Innovation
Centre (2011) overviews of innovation into account, it is
evident that as suggested by Gibson and Kelly (2010)
innovation is about change and organizations and individuals
tend to resist change. Furthermore is it realistic
and indeed optimistic to expect nurses and midwives
working at the frontline to innovate and change practice,
given the enormous challenges they face in the future?