Chris Green MP hosted a roundtable in Westminster on the 28th January to discuss the Medical Technology Group’s latest report, ‘Our NHS: A Spotlight on the NHS Innovation Landscape’.
Chris Green MP hosted a roundtable in Westminster on the 28th January to discuss the Medical Technology Group’s latest report, ‘Our NHS: A Spotlight on the NHS Innovation Landscape’. The report assesses the operation and interaction of the key NHS innovation organisations, and whether previous recommendations for promoting innovation across the healthcare system have been followed through. Roundtable attendees included MPs, patient groups and industry members, with discussion centring on the drivers and barriers of innovation across the NHS.
Conclusions from the discussion focussed on the various requirements for change. This included a top-down approach to embedding a culture of innovation across the health system, increasing uptake and spread of evidence-based innovations, such as technology that has received National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approval, clear leadership, and the de-risking of innovation.
The MTG will continue to raise the profile of these issues during its annual Medical Technology Awareness Week, taking place at the end of April. It will be unveiling the next stage of its Ration Watch campaign, following the successful launch in March 2019, which received widespread national media coverage.
For more information about the work of the MTG visit www.mtg.org.uk and / or www.legclub.org
