The competition aims to identify and reward innovative individuals and teams within NHS Trusts in the region, and to promote innovations which have the potential to lead to improvements in healthcare for patients in the West Midlands and beyond.

NHS Trusts across the West Midlands are set to benefit from the injection of £750K to develop innovative medical devices and procedures to improve NHS patient care.

The 2006 West Midlands NHS Innovation Conference will be held at the National Motorcycle Museum on Wednesday 8 March.

The Femmax product, an innovation from Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust has been launched in a high profile event in London.