BARBARA HARPHAM, chair of the Medical Technology Group, says that the NHS is failing to adopt innovation that could improve patients’ lives.
At the end of 2011, the NHS launched a new strategy – Innovation, Health and Wealth (IHW) – for making ‘innovation and its spread central to what we do’. It described innovation as an idea, service or product which was either new to the NHS or, if already present, could be additionally exploited in a way that is new. Crucially, it should be evident that the innovation ‘significantly improves the quality of health and care wherever it is applied’.
Changes for the good
The strategy identified six areas across the NHS where it believed Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) and acute Trusts could better harness technology to not only help patients but also ultimately save money, with some clearly recommended high impact changes:
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