The third Healthcare Innovation Expo 2013 will support the delivery of the report Innovation Health and Wealth – Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion in the NHS.
Widespread adoption of innovation is a key priority for the NHS and the event will play an important part in spreading new and existing ideas across the NHS, with the aim of delivering improvements in quality and value, as well as driving economic growth.
All the signs point to a new era of rapid, exciting transformation in the NHS, according to Miles Ayling, director of innovation and service improvement at the Department of Health. “We have come a very long way in a relatively short space of time. I believe that the current emphasis on innovation – and its widespread diffusion – is starting to make a real difference,” he commented. “Things are undoubtedly improving. Ideas are spreading faster and people are becoming more responsive to them. It is very positive.” In 2008, Lord Darzi’s milestone ‘Next Stage Review’ appeared, heralding the move from “an NHS that has rightly focused on increasing the quantity of care to one that focuses on improving the quality of care”. The role of innovation in that process was further highlighted in Sir David Nicholson’s report Innovation, Health and We
alth; accelerating adoption and diffusion in the NHS, published in 2011.
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