Innovation Uptake
Déjà Review 2023
– August 2023
Our original 2016 report called for a system-wide adoption of technologies and a focus on longer term strategy and solutions to end the postcode lottery of access to medical technologies in the NHS. However, barriers to the uptake of innovation still exist, particularly for small and medium sized enterprises. With the government prioritising innovation through its MedTech Strategy and the Sinker Innovation Review, the MTG is calling for three recommendations to ensure the NHS can fully harness its benefits.
Our NHS, a Spotlight on the Innovation Landscape
– August 2023
Our original 2016 report called for a system-wide adoption of technologies and a focus on longer term strategy and solutions to end the postcode lottery of access to medical technologies in the NHS. However, barriers to the uptake of innovation still exist, particularly for small and medium sized enterprises. With the government prioritising innovation through its MedTech Strategy and the Sinker Innovation Review, the MTG is calling for three recommendations to ensure the NHS can fully harness its benefits.
Medical Technology Access Accelerator
– March 2021
The NHS has long wrestled with the challenge of creating a system that allows for the systematic uptake and spread of innovation. Over many years, a number of reports have been published that have given rise to new organisations and Departments charged with solving this problem.
At present, however, the NHS has not found a way to pull through innovative products – meaning patients miss out. For innovators, the system remains difficult to navigate and uptake is at best patchy, and at worst non-existent.
In this report, we propose eleven elements of the Access Accelerator for a more efficient system of innovation uptake to take best advantage of proven medical technology.
STPs and the Use of Technology
– November 2018
Regional Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs) set out plans for revolutionising local healthcare systems and delivering the NHS Five Year Forward View, published by NHS England in 2014. The original STP documents vary in length and detail but are designed to clarify the strategic objectives in each geographical area.
As some STPs begin to evolve into Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships and Integrated Care Systems in order to implement the plans, this report examines what the regional NHS organisations need to do to ensure that innovation is at the heart of the strategy and that patients can get access to the technology they need.
Déjà Review
What lessons can be learnt from the past? – June 2016
Improving the way the NHS uses innovation has become the holy grail of NHS efficiency. In 2004, Derek Wanless described the NHS as a ‘late and slow adopter of innovation’ in his review, ‘Securing Good Health for the Whole Population’. Since that report many people would argue that the situation remains the same, despite a series of initiatives and reports promoting better use of innovation.
In this report The Medical Technology Group (MTG) considered what can be learnt from previous initiatives and suggested ways the Accelerated Access Review (AAR) can have most impact.
Innovation, Health, Wealth
A Scorecard – June 2015
Three and a half years after the launch of the NHS Innovation, Health and Wealth (IHW) scheme in December 2011, the Medical Technology Group (MTG) published a report detailing the progress made by IHW on the six high impact innovations which were to be spread through the NHS at ‘pace and scale’.
The data collected in the report indicates that the push for greater adoption of innovations has largely failed to produce significant results. While some successes have been noted from IHW; such as the launch of Academic Health Science Networks, there has been a widespread lack of uptake on the high impact innovations.