Engaging regional health systems in the knowledge economy: lessons learnt so far

Professor Jonathan Watson PhD FRSMHCN Executive DirectorEUREGIO III Project DirectorSpecial Professor of Health & Public Policy, University of Nottingham Medical SchoolExternal Partner to European Masters degree in Sustainable Regional Health Systems

Europe's regional health economies exchange

Brussels, 20 July 2010

HCN - stimulating regional health economies

HEALTH SERVICES

REGIONAL PRIORITIES

•Sustainable procurement (Bilbao Agenda)

•Affordable capital investment (Graz Agenda)

•Inclusive employment (Pecs Agenda)

•Engaged regional health systems and health innovation markets (Liverpool Agenda)

•Health & Structural Funds (EUREGIO III)RENEWED LISBON AGENDA

and EUROPE 2020

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health-related investments

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building regional networks composed of

all playerscommon clinical

pathwayscross-linked by telemedicine

extending telemedicine by telecoaching

Medical technology & telemedicine

The elderly

Prevention & rehabilitation

close to home medicine

financed directly with the least bureaucratic

detours

TSB:Professional/technical adviceSME and innovationTechnology transferNetworksInnovative projectsCompetency fields

IBB:FinancingPromotion programmesVenture capitalFinance consultancy

Senate:Political goals

Strategic frameworkPromotion strategy

Growth fields

BBDC/CCI:Business location

GrowthInvestors

Marketing

CoherentInnovationStrategy

regional innovation strategy

health innovation clusters

Develop better coordinated supply chain

Improve regional sales of network companies

Dialogue forum for science and business and…

Technology transfer - science > business >health services

Develop mid-term growth and employment effects

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what goes wrong

• Regional and local health services have staff who are very innovative. They are let down by:

• Not capturing valuable ideas and IP

• Failure to implement

• Local conservatism vs. global learning vision

• Failing the tax payer, patients and local industry

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a solution: regional NHS innovation hubs

9 Hubs linked to NIC and NHS Institute

Funded by DH and DTI

Hubs act as a Gateway between NHS Trusts, their innovators and industry

TrusTECH model successfully applied to Wales (Wish)

Other international interest

Cost effective regional model for innovation management

Working with academia and industry to improve health care and the economy in the NW

“Win-win-win” - results are good for patients, staff and industry

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The Liverpool Agenda: social and technology health innovations contributing to regional development

http://www.healthclusternet.eu/pages/practical-knowledge-programme/health-innovations/

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aims of the agenda

1. To enable partner regions to build an environment that creates and sustains competitive health and medical related innovations.

2. To engage regional health systems in working with other key stakeholders in their regional health innovation landscape.

3. To ensure the effective adoption of innovations in the regional health sector.

4. Targeting health inequalities between regions and promoting health gain

5. To stimulate greater integration of health care providers with innovation actors and stakeholders

6. To reduce market obstacles by stimulating health care providers, entrepreneurship and innovation in local SMEs.

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practical foundations

• Regions need to identify and/or develop an independent regional economic development organisation to take a lead on this agenda

• Regions need to develop a shared vision and values between key stakeholders to provide the basis for effective intersectoral collaboration

• Stakeholders need to create regional health innovation objectives and outcomes and integrate them into their Regional Master Plan. To achieve this regions need to -

o Support the delivery of key objectives by creating a coordinated framework of intermediary organisations

o Create an incentive system for regional health innovation markets that is based on trust and openness in key processes

o Build a funding bridge between health and innovation stakeholders: universities, SMEs and regional health services

o Develop and make available shared tools (financial support & commitment, analysis of need, technology transfer mechanisms, education & skills training, networking information).

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summary: key milestones for all regions

• Adopt master/integrated planning within each region (this would make it difficult to isolate individual policy makers). Everyone has a contribution to make

• Identify the capacity and resources in a region to better understand how the delivery of innovation might be best coordinated

• Audit the innovations and innovators in a region (What do we already do well? Potential to create regional clusters)

• Maximise the adoption of innovation developed regionally (identify and facilitate routes to markets for your innovations)

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a reference framework for action

Trans-sectoral e-health

Knowledgeinstitution

Staffing rural communities

Living resources

Action learning process

Expertise

Shared learning and new expertise

The architects: The regional partner and HCN

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thank you

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