New Alliance Set to Drive Healthcare Innovation in The UK
A new business driven partnership is offering streamlined healthcare innovation services aimed at improving quality of care and ultimately reduced costs. The Healthcare Innovation Alliance will fast track successful innovations across the NHS and international markets.
The Alliance (HIA) launched at NHS Confederation conference has been formed by six leading innovation organisations who have agreed to share their expertise and resources. This combined expertise will speed up the development of ideas to improve patient care and ensure efficient and cost-effective healthcare delivery.
As a joint force, the Alliance team of experienced staff will be able to leverage their capabilities and networks to deliver national innovation projects and provide unrivalled expertise to organisations on healthcare innovation. Individual Alliance members have an impressive track record and so far have examined thousands of good ideas emerging from NHS staff, they have set up over 300 deals to licence NHS innovations and helped create 10 new healthcare businesses. Examples include several new technologies for diagnosing and treating cancers, improved diagnosis by GP's of conditions leading to stroke and a new social enterprise partnership set to transform lives by ensuring high quality products for disability.
Working closely with universities, healthcare professionals and companies, the HIA will offer high quality advice to NHS staff to explore healthcare innovations with rapid evaluation of ideas, reducing the level of time and investment wasted on duplicate projects or those which will not meet the required objectives.
Dick Clark, Chair of the HIA said: "The importance of innovation in the NHS has never been higher on the agenda than it is now. With the drive to make cost savings and at the same time preserve and improve the quality of care, innovation has a leading role to play. The formation of the HIA is both a timely and positive move; with the wealth of shared expertise and resources we will be able not only to promote the importance of innovation but also facilitate rapid implementation of successful ideas".