1. Transforming Health and Care Services in Wales through Innovation.
'A Healthier Wales' - Delivering adoption and building community healthcare partnerships
Transforming Health and Care Services in Wales through Innovation.
Professor Sir Mansel Aylward CB MD DSC FRCP FLSW
MediWales Connects 2019: 2nd July, The Great Hall, Swansea University

2. Innovation – what is it ?
“An innovation is the implementation of a new or significantly improved product (goods or service), or process, a new marketing method, or a new organisational method in business practices, workplace organisation or external relations.” Oslo Manual, 3rd edition, OECD, 2005
“Change that creates a new dimension of performance or change that outperforms previous practice.” Centre for Public Innovation, 2014
“A new idea, that comes from a new way of thinking or seeing a problem, that is put into practice as a new way of doing something that leads to an improvement over previous practice.” Centre for Public Innovation, 2014
‘’Innovation is a multi‐stage process whereby ideas are transformed into entirely new (i.e. novel, not just improved ways of doing things, products, services or processes) in order to advance new knowledge, to strengthen unstructured beliefs, to achieve desired outcomes, unexploited opportunities and commonly desired goals which may require new process technology’’ Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, 2010.

3. Improvement vs Innovation
‘Improvement Improves’ --- what we already have
‘Innovation Radically and Irreversibly TRANSFORMS’ -- into something new and better.

4. Innovation! It is not about ideas –but about making ideas happen’
Don’t be afraid to fail – be afraid not to try
Innovation is not:
Change for change’s sake, or just novelty or ill-thought through invention

5. Innovation – Why do we need it ?
Time for radical change current position is unsustainable
A different mind set: exploit more prudent health and care and value-based systems
Small scale and incremental change is no longer enough
Time to unleash creative energy and mobilise creative action
‘The NHS must change or die by 2020’ –Mansel Aylward (Bevan Commission, 2015)

6. Innovation – Why do we need it ?
To challenge existing assumptions and ways of working – status quo is not sustainable
Doing more of the same will get more of the same
Sustainable change will not happen (at pace or scale) on its own or indeed by top down directives from Ministers or Directors
Change culture – create a movement for change involving everyone, to help identify and solve problems
Cross fertilize ideas and share experience and expertise

8. Innovation – How do we do it ?
It is the people in the system, the people using the system and those trained by the system who will help change the system:
Make it everyone ‘s responsibility making the most of the assets we have in our workforce and with the people who use health and care services daily
Build social movements for change that will take co ownership and responsibility for the necessary changes
Change will not be through a few heroic leaders or mavericks or strategizing change – everyone must get on and do it as part of their daily work
Develop and support leadership skills, competency, capability, courage and conviction to try out new approaches and ways of working
Create and environment where it is safe to try out, test and learn – (fail or succeed ) - Bevan Commission Innovators : Fellows, Advocates and Bevan Exemplars

9. Milton Friedman – Quotable Quote:
Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.”

10. Innovation - Let Us Go Forward Together:
It is the people in the system, the people using the system and those trained by the system who will help change the system.

11. The role of the Life Sciences Hub Wales
To provide inspirational support to drive systematic change and outstanding health and care benefits for people and families across Wales.
Our Vision​
Our vision is to make Wales the place of choice for health, care and wellbeing innovation
Our Mission
Our mission is to accelerate the development and adoption of innovative solutions for better health and wellbeing.
Our role is to help improve the health and wealth of the people of Wales.
We do that by listening to our health and care services, and our wider Public Sector partners, so that we understand the wider, holistic picture
We help you to discover and understand citizens and staff needs – what are their priorities; which needs are currently unmet?
We work with you to find out if innovation can provide an effective solution.
At the same time, we work closely with industry and bring forward the best ideas from across the Life Sciences sector, supporting faster and easier implementation of innovation into our health, care and wellbeing services in Wales.
Our approach is embedded in our refreshed vision and mission statements.

12. Accelerate Opportunities
How we work: Life Sciences Hub Wales
HUB
Convene Partners
Orchestrate System
Accelerate Opportunities
Build for Future

13. Delivery Priorities Identify and develop innovation from industry.
Curate and promote innovation within NHS Wales.
Develop funding identification and delivery function in line with health and social care priority areas.
National programmes and innovation deployment.

14. Navigating the route to market
The Offer …
Navigating the route to market
Identifying priority patient needs and challenges in Wales and aligning these with potential solutions.
Helping innovators to be NHS ready with their products and services.
Helping business to navigate the NHS Wales route to market.
Supporting innovation and adoption
Identifying and prioritising opportunities to enable innovation adoption.
Working with partners to identify innovations of potential benefit to Wales.
Supporting the health and care sector to curate and mobilise innovation.

15. Building collaborative projects
The Offer …
Building collaborative projects
Formulating a pipeline of funding opportunities.
Identifying key stakeholders groups to collaborate in winning funding opportunities.
Convening and facilitating consortia and collaborative projects.
Sharing knowledge
Developing a knowledge bank of information, analysis and intelligence to support projects across health and social care in Wales.
Identifying and sharing project funding opportunities
Ongoing technology and innovation horizon scanning.

16. Helping business to locate in Wales
The Offer …
Helping business to locate in Wales
Soft landing service.
International partnerships and networks.

17. Accelerate works with academia to accelerate the process between identifying health and social care needs and the delivery of the solutions for those needs
Our collaboration with the NHS Wales Informatics Service aims to help tech companies access health and care sector platforms and share digital health innovations

18. “Making better use of digital, data and communication technologies will help us to raise the quality and value of health and social care services, so that they are cost-effective and sustainable and also bring our offer in line with increasing expectations of technology in people’s day-to-day lives.”
‘A Healthier Wales’, Welsh Government, June 2018
Our vision and mission have been developed by our Board of Directors and endorsed by the Welsh Government.

19. The Innovation Network for Health and Social Care Wales
Bring together innovation champions, leads and practitioners across the health Social Care system in Wales, and from partner organisations.
Source, share and showcase good practice around health and care innovation and support scale up of innovative activity.
Provide a peer group to support the development of strategic plans.
Support an audit of key health and care innovations, national level unmet needs and opportunities.

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22. Over 100 people attended
Over 70 organisations were represented
17 pitches/ challenges were tabled by health colleagues

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