Specialised services: transforming delivery for patients

Specialised services: transforming delivery for patients
NHS Providers February 2020

• This report shows how NHS specialised services are adapting to a changing environment to deliver world-class and innovative care for patients and service users. It presents the opinions of leaders from trusts and the wider health and care sector on key issues and looks at the key role specialised services play in delivering the ambitions of the long-term plan.

Advanced Pain Discovery Platform

Advanced Pain Discovery Platform
Versus Arthritis 9 September 2019

• A £24 million fund which forms a 5-year partnership between Versus Arthritis and UK Research and Innovation to generate a research platform, known as the Advanced Pain Discovery Platform, which will combine cutting edge technology and science, using artificial intelligence to understand the complex nature of pain in humans.

Surgical Innovation, New Techniques and Technologies: A Guide to Good Practice

Surgical Innovation, New Techniques and Technologies: A Guide to Good Practice

Royal College of Surgeons February 2019

• This guide seeks to provide surgeons with up-to date thinking on the development, implementation  and dissemination of surgical innovation. This guide highlights the challenges commonly faced by surgeon innovators and signposts sources of assistance. It is also written for those medical and clinical directors charged with providing oversight of surgical activity within their organisations.

Successfully Scaling Innovation in the NHS

Against the Odds: Successfully Scaling Innovation in the NHS

Innovation Unit, Health Foundation January 2018

• Research looking at the pathway of 10 UK innovations to understand the factors that enable success.
• The case studies include:
• Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS)
• High Sensitivity Troponin testing
• Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs)
• Macmillan Cancer Nurse Specialists
• Schwartz Rounds UK

Improving patient access to breakthrough technologies and treatments in a cost-effective model

Making a reality of the Accelerated Access Review: Improving patient access to breakthrough technologies and treatments in a cost-effective model
Department of Health, Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 2 November 2017

• A joint response to the Accelerated Access Review, setting out how government will improve patient access to breakthrough technologies and treatments. 
• Key elements include: 
• an Accelerated Access Collaborative that will develop an accelerated access pathway to bring breakthrough products to market and then to patients as quickly as possible 
• £86 million government funding to support innovators and the NHS in overcoming barriers to getting new, innovative technologies to patients quickly 
• improved NHS England commercial capacity and capability to deliver deals that achieve better value for the NHS and innovators.

Towards improved access to innovation in cancer care

Identifying critical steps towards improved access to innovation in cancer care: a European CanCer Organisation position paper
European Journal of Cancer; Sep 2017; vol. 82 ; p. 193-202

• Highlights
• Innovation in cancer care does not have to be complex or expensive.
• An innovation's value depends on patient outcomes, quality of life and system costs.
• A whole-system, whole-patient approach is required to guide investment in innovation.
• Patients must be more involved in defining and assessing the value of innovation.
•  Investment in real-world data is essential to shape decisions about interventions.