2. Healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of
health via the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and
mental impairments in human beings.
10. Rise in LTCs* and Healthcare Expenditure
Source: HealthXL Report 2016
* Long-Term Conditions
11. Rising Drug Development Costs and Prices
• Highly regulated industry
• Avg. time to market: 15 years
• Cost: £1.5-2.5 billion
• Pricing and reimbursement
policies: variable and
inefficient
16. (Some of) Next-Generation Care
Augmented
Reality/Virtual Reality
3D printing
Robotics and
Prosthetics
Genome editing
…AI, drones, implantable sensors, nanomedicine, proteomics….
17. What the UK is Doing
o Committed over £1.8 billion to
innovation since 2007
o Matched by a similar amount in
partner and business funding
o Helped more than 7,600 organisations
o Projects estimated to add more than
£11.5 billion to the UK economy and
create 55,000 extra new jobs.
18. Impact 2015-2016
• 5 years of the Catapult Programme
• 10 industry areas
Healthcare:
• Cell and gene therapy
• Precision medicine
• Medicines discovery (2016)
21. So what does all this mean for us?
Live longer
Live a
healthier life
Maintain the
Quality of Life
Have
treatment
options that
would work
for YOU
Actively
engage in
prevention
and early
diagnosis