Here you will find information on Fellowships in the Innovation and Workforce Diversification team portfolio.
Public Services Delivery (PSD) Scotland engages with and contributes to a range of fellowship activity in collaboration with strategic partners.
This activity align with the Research and Innovation plan.
These fellowships inform and influence future workforce education planning in Scotland.
We engage with three innovation and entrepreneurial fellowships:
PSD Scotland works in collaboration with Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust to access the NHS Fellowship in Clinical Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This programme aims to ‘equip healthcare leaders to adopt clinical AI’ (Guys & St Thomas’) 2025.
The fellowship aligns to Theme 5 of the Research and Innovation Plan: research and innovation capacity.
In this example of transformative work-based learning, fellows are released 2 days per week to join live clinical AI projects across Scotland under expert supervision.
Alongside this they join UK peers in roadshow workshop events over the 12-month curriculum
Read more about the fellowship and Scotland's participants
The Innovation and Workforce Diversification workstream leads PSD Scotland engagement with this programme.
PSD Scotland collaborates with a range of partners in Scotland to support candidates on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme.
The Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre (DHI) facilitates coordination of the Scotland cohort, working with PSD Scotland, InnoScot Health, the Chief Scientist Office, Techscaler and Scottish Enterprise.
The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme has recently celebrated 10 years of successful delivery.
Chief Scientist Office (CSO) delivers a range of fellowships. The Innovation and Workforce Diversification workstream engages with the Innovation Academic Fellowship, promoting the opportunity. The engagement adds coherence across the innovation landscape focusing on what this means for the system and future skills need. PSD Scotland plays an active part in recruitment and selection of fellows, supports development sessions and contributes to connectedness with fellows.
Recruitment by CSO is currently paused.
Exciting Announcement 🌟
From 19th October to 20th November 2026, applications for the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme (CEP) will be open. A free, one‑year initiative designed to help creative thinkers and problem‑solvers transform healthcare and improve outcomes for patients.
Delivered by Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), the NHS CEP is the largest entrepreneurial workforce development programme of its kind. Participants gain access to CPD‑accredited entrepreneurial education, real‑world learning opportunities, and commercial skills that accelerate ideas from concept to impact.
What does the programme offer?
✅ Personal and professional development that supports NHS staff retention.
✅ A year of structured learning, mentoring, and hands‑on innovation experience.
✅ Blended learning accessible both in‑person and virtually across the UK.
✅ A supportive, diverse community of healthcare professionals, patients, carers, and entrepreneurs.
Who is it open to?
☑️ The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme is open to all NHS staff, across the UK, who have an idea to transform health care.
☑️ The NHS CEP Patient Programme is open to patients or those with a lived experience, in England, of a condition who are working on an innovation based on that lived experience
Have you identified a challenge within the NHS that needs addressing? Do you have an idea you’re ready to develop, test, and scale for patient benefit?
The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme may be the right next step for you! 💡
👉 Find out more here:NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme: Cohort 11 Application Dates Announced - NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme