Innovation

Innovation is critical to enabling the NHS to increase its pace and scale of change, to improve patient experience and deliver better health outcomes.

The NHS has been a leader in healthcare innovation throughout its history, revolutionising diagnostic imaging, leading cutting edge clinical research, establishing world-leading research datasets, and rolling out new technology-enabled services for patients.

The NHS’s commitment to innovation holds the key to ensuring its sustainability.

NHS England is working with the Department of Health and Social Care to develop research, innovation and life sciences proposals for the 10 Year Health Plan and collaborating with the Office of Life Sciences to develop the Life Sciences Sector Industrial Strategy.

Our innovation programmes

Find out more about:

The Accelerated Access Collaborative

NHS England host the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC). The AAC brings together the key stakeholders in health research and innovation in the UK to support the uptake of proven innovation.

The Innovation Ecosystem programme

The Innovation Ecosystem programme looked at how the NHS can work with wider health innovation and research partner organisations to better enable research, innovation development, and the adoption and spread of innovation in the NHS.

How you can champion innovation

Championing innovation: tips and guidance for clinical leaders on ways they can advocate for innovation.

Our ambition is to speed up and scale up the adoption of innovation in the NHS and to improve the NHS’s global competitiveness in life sciences and MedTech.

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