Blogs

Mark Otto Smith of UCLPartners’ Commercial and Innovation team outlines the five key questions you need to answer to successfully commercialise your product or service in the NHS. He has met hundreds of innovators through the AHSNs and Healthcare UK and has distilled key points on commercialisation in the NHS into a 5-minute read below.

The new year and new decade provides a perfect opportunity to reflect and consider what we have achieved and hope to achieve for safety. Coming together to improve care and reduce ...

Margaret Grayson is a patient on the steering group for DATA-CAN – The Health Data Research Hub for Cancer. Here, Margaret considers the power of improved data access for cancer research.

The rising incidence of cardiovascular disease means its early detection and improved prevention should be the primary care sector’s top priority argues Dr Matt Kearney.

Our Interim Managing Director Professor Mike Roberts reflects on the part we can all play in helping new ideas to be adopted.

Internationally, there is growing use of linked datasets to build more complete understanding of population profiles and population-wide health and care service utilisation.

SMEs and start-ups with healthtech products with the potential to support our health and care system often do not know how best to approach the NHS. Chris Wood of UCLPartners’ Commercial & Innovation team provides a quick tour through the complex and changing NHS landscape.

One in two of us will get cancer during our lifetime, and cancer is the leading cause of death across the UK. Find out how DATACAN aims to transform how cancer data from across the UK can be used to improve patient care.

For research and innovation to have the best impact on patients, staff and the health and care system as a whole, it needs to focus on the most important questions and challenges. And, of course, the results of the research need to be actually put into practice.

I’m going to tell you a secret.  Care homes are brilliant.  Their staff are some of the most hard-working, inspirational people I’ve ever met.  But most people don’t know this.  I didn’t always know this: here’s the story of how I found out.