Prof Rachel Munton's presentation to the Monday session of the Chief Scientific Officer's #HCS15 2015 Annual Conference

1. Working with Academic
Health Science Networks:
Translating Innovation into
Practice
Professor Rachel Munton, Managing
Director
#HCS15 Healthcare Scientists – Making it
Happen
Monday 16 March 2015

2. Aims for the day
To inform and support healthcare
scientists to look up and out
To engage with the new and evolving
structures of the NHS
To help set and define the agenda for the
year to come.

3. 15 AHSNs nationally
HSCs
10
Scientific
Directors
4
Scientific
Project
Leads

4. How AHSNs make a difference
We connect: bringing together academics, NHS,
researchers and industry to accelerate innovation and
facilitate the adoption and spread of proven ideas.
We are catalysts: helping facilitate change across
whole health and social care economies - with a focus
on improving outcomes for patients.
We create the right environment for relevant industries
to work with the NHS and other parts of the healthcare
sector.

5. AHSN Four key objectives
Build a culture of
partnership,
collaboration,
inclusivity in
addressing local
and national
priorities
Create wealth
through co-
development,
testing, evaluation
and adoption of
new products and
services
Speed up
adoption of
innovation to
improve clinical
outcomes and
patient
experience
Focus on needs
of patients and
local
populations,
promoting
health equality

6. About AHSNs
The diversity of AHSN priorities reflects the many
challenges of improving health and wealth in each
region.
However all 15 share a focus on:
Promoting economic growth [e.g. SBRI programme]
Diffusing innovation and putting proven research into
practice
Improving patient safety
Improving quality and reducing variation
Optimising medicine use

7. Are patient-focussed with a clear focus on the needs and
challenges of the patients and populations they serve – with a
commitment to driving forward quality
Have a fundamental cultural of collaboration, working in
multidisciplinary teams, across organisational boundaries and
with industry colleagues
Work at the cutting edge of technology, analysing and rolling
out developments across the NHS, guiding others through the
landscape of the system
Are entrepreneurial and innovative, identifying gaps in provision
Work with industry and academia to bring new developments to
commercial fruition
About Healthcare Scientists

8. The Healthcare Science profession is central to the
step change in innovation and service provision
that is fundamental to the delivery of the Five Year
Forward View for the NHS and, more broadly, in
cementing this country’s status as a world leader in
the life sciences industry.
Healthcare scientists develop and deliver the
science and new technology necessary to
transform outcomes and they provide the essential
link between scientific and technological advances
and front line services, with a necessary role in the
earlier diagnosis and prevention agenda.
HCS & AHSNs: a shared
agenda?

9. Creation
• new things
• new ideas
• new techniques
• new approaches
Assessment
• new things
• new ideas
• new techniques
• new approaches
Uptake
• new things
• new ideas
• new techniques
• new approaches
Spread
• new things
• new ideas
• new techniques
• new approaches
Basic Research
Applied
Research
Commissioning Patient Care
• Better Quality
• Better Value
•Health and Wealth
NIHR
NHS
Commissioners
MRC & others
incl Charities
Providers of NHS
services
Working across the Innovation Pathway
INVENTION EVALUATION ADOPTION DIFFUSION

10. EMAHSN:
Transforming the health of
4.5m East Midlands
residents and stimulating
wealth creation
Name: Rachel Munton
Phone: 0115 8231300
Email: rachel.munton@nottingham.ac.uk
www.emahsn.org.uk
@EM_AHSN
@RachelMunton

11. Working in partnership