Bridging the Gap in Healthcare Innovation
Date: 14.3.2011
Innovation in Healthcare: Improving Care, Driving Efficiency
12th May 2011, the Barbican, London
This conference is supported by the Technology Strategy Board, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, NHS National Innovation Centre and NHS Innovations London.
What is the importance of innovation in the NHS?
How can it improve the quality of healthcare provided?
Most importantly, how can we bring innovation to the front line?
Healthcare in the UK is constantly evolving, and technology continues to advance. As new technologies and processes are introduced into the NHS, patient outcomes improve, resulting in a better quality of healthcare. Innovation is one of the central focuses for the Department of Health and the NHS, as demonstrated by the Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) programme, and appropriate adoption of innovation can drastically reduce NHS costs in the long term.
Making the correct links with and expediting the uptake of innovation into the health service is vitally important. Promoting innovation can stimulate growth at the same time as ensuring that patients have access to the latest medicines and medical technologies. Maximising the relationship between the NHS and both the private and life sciences sectors (including universities and research centres) is hugely important, not only to the future of healthcare, but to the future of the UK as a whole.
At Innovation in Healthcare: Improving Care, Driving Efficiency a programme of key speakers will consider the role of innovation in improving patient outcomes, and its place in the new NHS. We will look at innovation in areas such as medical technology, biotech and pharmaceuticals, as well as procedural developments and strategies, offering an ideal forum for discussion of the latest innovations and putting the NHS in touch with producers of new technologies.
Speakers Include:
Dr Nigel Sansom - Senior Manager for Technology Introduction, NHS National Innovation Centre
Dr Penny Wilson - Lead Technologist in Detection and Identification of Infectious Agents, Technology Strategy Board
Professor James Barlow - Chair in Technology and Innovation Management, Imperial College London
Dr David Chilvers - Chief Executive, NHS Innovations London
Dr Lynne Maher - Interim Director - Innovation, NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement
Further details of the programme can be found online.
Places are limited and are awarded on a first come, first served basis.
Group discounts are available.
This event is CPD Certified.
Aysha Asif
Marketing Executive
aasif@specialistdelegate.co.uk
http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/aysha-asif/27/324/b27
0161 834 3355/832 7387
