1. Working in Collaboration across the Health and Care System
INNOVATION
Working in Collaboration across
the Health and Care System

2. Northern Excellence in Supply Awards
Innovation –Working in Collaboration across the Health and Care System
Introduction:
Mick Guymer
Chair NHS Northern Customer Board
Jo Gander
Director of Clinical and Product Assurance (CaPA), SCCL
Dr Sheryl Warttig
Senior Technical Advisor, Centre for Health Technology Evaluation
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

3. OBJECTIVES
To provide an overview of the Assurance Framework within the new Operating Model of NHS Supply Chain
To provide insight into the collaborative approach being adopted by partners across the Health and Care System in relation to new innovations

4. CaPA Assurance Framework
2.Patient Safety and supplier
compliance with Medical Device
Regulation requirements integral to
assurance process
3. All stakeholders across the
Health and Care system inform
procurement specifications
Assurance
Framework
1.Category Strategy
2.Sourcing Strategy
3.Stakeholder and customer Engagement strategy
4.Product Evaluation strategy
Products procured are
Fit for Purpose, Value
for Money and Safe
4. Product evaluation reflects
the product complexity and
dependencies
The Assurance Framework will be aligned with Partner organisations (NHS England, Health Tech Connect, Accelerated Access Review, Office of Life Sciences) so providing consistent requirements for suppliers
CaPA Update

5. Assurance Criteria 4. Final approval at Commercial and
Review Forum
3. No procurement
frameworks will be
released without CaPA
approval
2. Quality Assurance
tool measures the
evidence and
confirms the level
of compliance
CaPA Assurance
Framework covers
all components of
the procurement
framework
Enables CaPA to systematically and consistently apply assurance criteria to each part of the procurement process
CTSPs will be clear on the areas of non compliance to facilitate rapid review and resubmission
Establishes clear quality governance arrangements, consistent quality management and monitoring measures
Provides customer confidence that all procurement frameworks and associated products meet a clearly defined
Please Note :
All product complaints/exception reports will be reviewed by CaPA following submission to the NHS Supply Chain website and/or via with a target to provide a full customer response within 5 working days .

6. CaPA Update

7. Embedding Assurance within Operational BAU
Commercial and Review Forum
Collaboration Forum
Performance Review Meeting
Category Council meetings to review and inform strategy development
Product Assurance Specialist operational meetings with CTSPs
Complaints process
Exception submissions
Stakeholders via CaPA inbox
Customer Engagement Team
Patient Safety Team
Safeguarding concerns
Suppliers
MHRA
Patient Safety
Innovation
Via HealthTec Connect
Clinical Oversight of Assurance
CaPA Induction

8. Innovation to availability via NHS Supply Chain
Products considered to be of great value to the NHS not existing within current procurement frameworks should be registered with Health Tech Connect (HTC) from Oct ’18
NHSE,AAC,HTC and CaPA are aligning requirements for innovations to ensure consistency between organisations so consistent message to suppliers regarding expectations
NHS England are in the process of defining the ‘evidence’ required for new innovations which will also be applied to future CaPA and partners assurance iterations
HTC will identify products that are of great value to NHS that SCCL should initiate within future frameworks i.e. this decision will be made outside of SCCL
The main point of contact for HTC will be CaPA any queries from CTSPs should be directed to CaPA mailbox for follow up
CaPA Induction

9. (previously known as MedTechScan)
HealthTech Connect
(previously known as MedTechScan)

10. Background Difficult to identify medtech as it develops
No authoritative database/registry exists
AAR called for an overhaul of the processes that support medtech

11. Background NHS England has provided 3 yrs of funding
HTC has been built by Sigma
NICE will host HTC
NICE are leading the development of HTC in partnership with a range of other organisations….

12. Clinical Commissioners

22. Company view

26. Accessor organisation view

27. Accessor organisation view

30. Access only with company consent
How it works
Access to all records
Publically funded groups that meet the HTC criteria and are responsible for:
issuing info on health tech at a national level (e.g. guidance or policies).
Examples:
NICE MTEP, NHS England specialised commissioning, AAC secretariat, Health Technology Wales
Access only with company consent
Publically funded groups that meet the HTC criteria and are responsible for
supporting the development or adoption of health tech, or
commissioning health technologies, or
health technology procurement.
Examples:
NICE Scientific advice, NICE OMA, NHS England Innovation Accelerator, NIHR, AHSNs.
Due to launch October 2018

31. Q&As and Discussion Jo Gander jo.gander@dh.gsi.gov.uk
Skipton House, 80 London Road, London SE1 6LH
Supply Chain Coordination Limited (SCCL) is the Management Function of the NHS Supply Chain