NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP) - Applications open 3rd October 2022

Established in 2016, the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP), delivered by Anglia Ruskin University aims to support healthcare staff to develop the commercial skills, knowledge and experience needed to successfully develop and spread innovation, for the benefit for patients, the public, and the wider NHS. The programme offers a range of support including direct education, mentoring, networking, and access to exclusive opportunities, expertise and resources.

The CEP is essentially a ‘corporate entrepreneurship’ programme. It enables NHS employees to develop innovations and commercial ideas whilst continuing to work in the NHS and fosters a culture for innovation and entrepreneurialism within the NHS. Since its launch, the programme has grown in scale and impact. In the first six years, the programme recruited over 800 NHS staff, making it the world’s first and largest national-level entrepreneurial workforce development programme.

The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme is...

• a free, yearlong entrepreneurial workforce development programme that can fit around your work. 
• believes in transforming healthcare through innovation and improving patient care.
• open to all NHS staff, both clinical and non-clinical.
• aiming to provide entrepreneurial education for innovators and creative thinkers in the to develop 
• their ideas and knowledge. 
• helping to retain staff into the NHS.
• built on a diverse community of healthcare professionals and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.
• now recruiting for our seventh year and have supported over 800 healthcare professionals

Applications for cohort 7 will open on the 3rd October 2022 and close on the 30th October 2022. 

For more information, contact: 

Tel: 01245 68 4315

Email: cep@aru.ac.uk

Website: www.nhscep.com