International Best Practice Workshop: Healthcare Clusters

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International Best Practice Workshop Healthcare
Clusters

• Professor David J Williams
• Loughborough University, UK

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The Context

• Demographics and healthcare cost escalation
• Socialised healthcare at the largest (and oldest)
  scale
• Pharmaceuticals is a major part of the UK economy
• Significant changes in the process for
  commissioning healthcare services
• NHS is a late adopter/bad diffuser of innovation
  both in services and technology NICE and
  rationing
• The UK and Pharmaceutical and Bioscience RD
  Cooksey Translational gaps BIGTRefresh
• UK Healthcare high growth potential SME behaviour
  dominated by non-UK markets
• Innovation Post DArzi Legal duty for SHAs to
  promote innovations NHS Evidence Health
  Innovation Council AHSCs Healthcare Innovation
  and Education Clusters
• Healthcare and bioscience is one of four key
  regional sectors

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Health and Wealth

• Health
• Life long health and well being
• Cost effective healthcare
• Innovation in delivery
• Health economics

• Wealth
• Retention of Pharmaceutical RD
• Creation of high growth SMEs
• Inward Investment
• Economic Activity

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Integrating Clusters
Health
Wealth
Wealth
Health

• Healthcare Innovation System
• Economy of Health

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Today

• Learning from the best
• regions with similar delivery systems