The document discusses innovation and the work of the Innovation Agency. It summarizes the agency's support for businesses, including engaging with 543 companies, providing intensive support to 81 companies, and helping create or safeguard over 100 jobs. It also describes the agency's efforts to foster collaboration through events, awards, and aligning with innovation hubs. The agency provides £500k in funding to pump prime adoption of new technologies and supports challenges to NHS procurement requirements to introduce innovation.

1. Innovation
Innovation Agency
Innovation Culture
Procurement
Success Stories
TECS Landscape
Disruption?
ERDF Programmes
Impact?

2. Innovation =
Idea Traction
+
Spreading innovation,
improving health,
generating economic growth

3. Context
Unmet local needs
Culture of collaboration
Speed up adoption
Create wealth
Prevention
Break down barriers to care
Using money well
Innovative Services
Voice for patients
Outcome based commissioning
A.T.

5. Summary of Business support
to date by Innovation Agency
• Actively engaged with 543 companies
• Intensive support provided to 81 companies
• Jobs safeguarded - 53
• Jobs created - 56
• New products or services introduced – 76
• NHSE funding allows us to support just 20 SME’s a
year….

6. Events to support collaboration
Ecosystem
Supporting mobile health and electronic health, connecting
businesses, academia, NHS and local authorities
Academic summits
Bringing together academics from all NWC learning and
research institutions
Hackathons
• Alder Hey with MIT – connecting businesses with health
professionals to ‘hack’ solutions
• Developed internal capability – trained by MIT
• Hacking Care Homes for NHS England – July 2016
Awards
• Research and Innovation Awards
• Bionow, Medilink, Excellence in Supply, business
awards

8. Innovation Scouts
• 50 Champions of change, learning from innovation leaders
• Creating a culture of innovation; part of the AHSN
• Network for co-creating new technologies and systems

9. Alignment with Innovation Hubs
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital:
Pump-prime funding into Institute in the Park and Innovation
Centre helping to leverage over £13m additional investment

10. Sensor City University Enterprise Zone

11. To Innovate Procurement or Procure
Innovation that is the question:
Creative Commissioning in Health and
Social Care

13. £500k funding for technologies
to pump prime adoption
Innovations with Impact competition,
funding technologies to support care
Digital , 10
Devices, 4
Telecare, 4
Funded pilots

14. How do you feel?
• Digital Survey:
• Worn Devices:

15. Presentation 1
NHS Procurement
Challenge the stated requirements…
Start up company with innovation in latex free surgical gloves
• Trusts procure off established supplier frameworks but positive evaluations by
theatre teams
• Two tenders published
– Minimum turnover of £1m
– Supply full range of products (including latex)
• Supported to challenge both, invited to apply for both, awarded both
• Later in the year awarded NHS SC national contract
• Triggered £0.5m VC investment
• Secured 3 jobs, now recruiting 6 more

17. 1717
European Reach
Menno Kok
Interim CLC Director
Belgium/Netherlands
UK/Ireland – core partners
France – core partnersSpain – core partners
Belgium/NL – core partners
InnoStars
Germany – core partners
Scandinavia – core partners

22. TECS Landscape

23. The Disruption:
This technology can radically change how we work therefore,
system change is needed to accommodate
Technology & Infrastructure Organisation
Quality
Partnership
Working
Patients and
Public
Structure
Conflicting/Competing
Services
Joint Strategy
Who will benefit?
The need?
How do we engage?
Competencies/Training Regulator

24. The Innovation Agency Sub Regional ERDF Programmes
Business Connect
Lancashire ERDF
Programme:
Lead Partner with
Lancaster University as
delivery partner
Business Connect
Liverpool / Health
Enterprise Hub ERDF
Programme: Delivery
Partner with Liverpool
CCG Lead Partner
Business Connect
Cheshire & Warrington
ERDF Programme: Lead
Partner with GM AHSN as
Delivery Partner (nb both
AHSNs cover different parts of
Cheshire)

25. Funnelling
Assessment and Eligibility Check
Aligning Commercial, Clinical and Academic Goals
Due Diligence and Initial Matching of Product to Clinical Need

26. Business Support
• Procurement frameworks
• Funding
• Clinical evaluation advice
• Health Economic data resources
• Providing access to clinical experts
• Establishing collaborations
• Showcasing new healthcare innovation to
drive NHS adoption & spread (via IA
Innovation Exchange, Executive i-Bags)
• Support to develop marketing & materials
that are relevant to the NHS
• Sales Pitch Development
• Sales Training & Coaching
• Access to Innovation Agency “Innovation
Scouts”
• Invites to Innovation Agency “Hackathon”
& other “open innovation”
• Signposting to other support
• Product Development
• Commercialisation

27. Gariner and Losers:
For every £1 we spend, what will it save?
What are the system costs and benefits?
What service could we stop?
What are the economies of scale?
What is the product Lifecycle?
Where could this Technology Transfer to next?
What is the environmental cost?

28. Jobs Wealth Research Sustainability Wellbeing

29. Presentation 1
Email: richard.harding@innovationagencynwc.nhs.uk
Twitter: @ricardohardinio
• Better
• Safer
• Faster
• Cheaper