dr. anne blackwood, chief executive, health enterprise east
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Funding Innovation Through
Pre-commercial Procurement
IMSTA Conference
March 2015
Dr Anne Blackwood
CEO, Health Enterprise East
Health Enterprise East: A Leading NHS Innovation
Hub
NHS Services
Professional IP Services for NHS Trusts
From idea to prototype for testing
Protection & commercialisation of IP
34 NHS organisations are members
Not for profit CLG structure
Part of national network of ‘NHS
Innovation Hubs’
Serves the IP needs of NHS Trusts
MedTech Services
Clinical access & analysis of output for business
Workshops, focus groups & interviews
Observational research
Care pathway analysis
Need translation
Product feedback and validation
Serves SME’s needs in access to NHS
Over 1300 NHS innovation disclosures assessed to
date
Over 120 commercial licenses granted last 5 years
3 spin out companies completed, with 8 further
potential opportunities in the pipeline
Annual Innovation Competitions run to celebrate NHS
innovation
35 technology projects in current pipeline
Supporting NHS Innovation
Health Innovation Scout Network
Innovation Scouts
Identify, assess and bring forward new innovations from their
NHS Organisation to HEE for development
Raise awareness of innovation throughout their organisation
Promote adoption and diffusion of new ideas and best
practice
Innovation Scout Network
Established by HEE in 2008 with funding from BIS
Provided Innovation Scout training to over 100 NHS staff
Work with 50 active Innovation Scouts from our NHS
member organisations
Supported by Eastern Academic Health Science Network
The NHS in Numbers
£100bn
NHS England
Budget 2014/15
£9.8bn
Annual cost to
NHS of
diabetes
1.7 million
people employed
by the NHS
£30bn
Projected NHS
‘funding gap’ by
2020
Medicine 2020 and beyond - drivers for change
Innovative models of care
Expert patient/point-of-care diagnostics
More creative use of ICT (monitoring, telemedicine, integrated care)
New treatments for chronic disease (eg diabetes, cardiac disease, stroke,
lung disease, cancer)
Ethical issues e.g. care of the elderly, end of life care
Innovation – new drugs/diagnostics/technologies/health delivery
systems
More individualised prevention and treatment, stratified medicine
Ambulatory care
SBRI Healthcare: NHS England initiative to
identify unmet needs within the health service and
fund companies to develop solutions
www.sbrihealthcare.co.uk
SBRI is a pan-government, structured process enabling the
Public Sector to engage with Innovative suppliers:
Helping the Public Sector address challenges
• Using innovation to achieve a step change
Accelerating technology commercialisation
• Providing a route to market
Support and the development of Innovative companies
• Providing a lead customer/R&D partner
• Providing funding and credibility for fund raising
SBRI Key features
100% funded R&D
Operate under procurement rules rather than state aid rules
• Deliverable based rather than hours worked or costs
incurred
Contract with Prime Supplier
• Who may choose to sub contract but remains accountable
IP rests with Supplier
• Certain usage rights with Public Sector – companies
encouraged to exploit IP
• Light touch Reporting & payments quarterly & up front
SBRI Healthcare:
A Strong Established Programme
7m
patients
helped
24 clinically led
challenges during annual
cycle of 2 challenges
Total Possible Annual Savings, £434m**
** This includes double-counting of some savings but excludes other
significant possible gains
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£35m invested
since 2012
93 feasibility contracts (phase 1)
37 development contracts (phase 2)
8 implementation contracts (phase 3)
150 jobs, 31 patents/TMs, £10m+
VC/investor funds leveraged
£1.5bn in
efficiency
savings*
• Min. estimate over 10 year period, Office for Health Economics & internal
figures, Summer 2014
The Noctura 400 is based on Organic Light Emitting
Diode (OLED) technology which offers a patient
centric, non invasive home based monitoring
treatment for patients with DR and age-related
macular degeneration (AMD).
Light therapy sleep mask could prevent blindness and
save the NHS £1bn a year.
The company are currently engaged in a multi-centre
Phase III trial of the technology at Moorfields Hospital,
London.
The company have increased 5 fold, have all their
manufacturing in the UK and are based at the National
Printable Electronics Centre in Sedgefield.
Case Study: Polyphotonix
SME PolyPhotonix has worked with the Liverpool University Hospitals Ophthalmology team to
create a light therapy sleep mask which is CE certified for the treatment of diabetic
retinopathy (DR).
Case Study: Fuel 3D Technologies
Oxford University Spin out Company, Fuel 3D Technologies has devised a novel 3D
camera which allows for improved monitoring and clinical intervention of chronic wounds in
clinics, hospitals and in patient homes.
The Fuel 3D wound measurement system, which was
launched in the UK in December 2011 and is already
being used in 25 NHS hospitals and primary care
settings, allows community nurses to monitor the
wounds while having the back-up of hospital-based
experts
Images can be evaluated without the need for patients
to visit outpatients – increasing effectiveness and
reducing costs. The technology allows wounds to be
assessed by volume giving a more accurate picture of
wound healing
Case Study: uMotif
Clinicians are provided with simple, relevant portals to
view, manage and stratify their patient groups, improving
the process of shared decision making
An initial trial has been completed in Parkinson’s Disease
where the simple, engaging user interface achieve 70%
daily use rates and a statistically significant increase in
patient adherence to medication
uMotif commenced a multi-centre trial in 7 major NHS
centres across the UK in January 2014
London Based uMotif have created mobile and web apps that combine patient-led data
inputs and a range of engaging content to help patients better self-manage their health
Health Enterprise East
SBRI Healthcare management partner
1010 Cambourne Business Park,
Cambourne,
Cambridge, CB23 6DP,
United Kingdom.
Tel. +44 (0)1223 597813
www.hee.co.uk
Contact Information
Anne Blackwood
CEO