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AHSNs: Helping International HealthTech Innovators Access the NHS Market
The role of health innovation in preparing our society to deal with the challenges of the 21st century, has never been more critical. As the innovation arm of the NHS and the
collective voice of the 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) across England, the AHSN Network has a central role to play in meeting these challenges. The AHSNs were created to spread innovation within the NHS, improve health and generate economic growth. The AHSN’s are increasingly operating on a global scale – building strategic partnerships with international bodies to stimulate inward investment and export growth opportunities. We are particularly keen to bring the best health innovations from around the world into the UK to meet the needs of our populations, and in my case, we want the Yorkshire and Humber region to be the first to make use of these innovations. Using Yorkshire & Humber AHSN as an
example of how we operate, the last 12-months have seen us deliver a series of highly successful events where we provided support to 150 health innovator companies from Norway, the Middle East, USA, Taiwan, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Lithuania, and Israel. In March this year we took a step further.
Through our partnership with the Department for International Trade (DIT) we delivered our first digital health accelerator boot camp for international innovators. We provided a one-week bootcamp for five US-based SMEs to help them land their innovative products in our home market.
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We aim to run more of these international boot camps in the future. We also work with the UK’s Foreign and
Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the DIT on initiatives such as the Better Health Programme – a project that seeks to tackle non-communicable diseases like heart disease and strengthen local health care systems to improve quality of care. This gives us the opportunity to support other
countries in developing their own healthcare systems by sharing knowledge and expertise from the UK to drive innovation and improve patient outcomes globally. For example, we recently worked with the Ministry of Public Health in Thailand to identify UK-based digital innovations in mental health that could be implemented to address the needs of their population. So, if you are an international HealthTech
innovator who is interested in accessing the NHS market or an overseas healthcare system who wants to learn more about innovations that have already been adopted and spread across the NHS then we are keen to start a conversation with you.
Dr Neville Young Director of Enterprise and Innovation, Yorkshire & Humber AHSN
info@ahsnnetwork.com
www.ahsnnetwork.com @AHSNNetwork
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