George MacGinnis leads the UK’s £98 million Healthy Ageing Challenge, a research and innovation programme to enable people as they age to remain active, productive, independent and socially connected across the generations for longer. He is part of UK Research and Innovation, a UK Government Agency with an annual budget of over £8 billion to invest in research and business innovation.
George’s background in health and care innovation includes previous work in the Republic of Ireland with the HSE Special Delivery Unit on improving patient flow in acute hospitals and with the Department of Health on the future capacity needs for a reformed health and social care system. In the UK he led a review of the NHS innovation funding for small businesses. For several years led the user group for the Personal Connected Health Alliance, developing digital standards for consumer health services.