Wednesday 1 July 2015

What the NHS can learn from healthcare innovations around the world

What the NHS can learn from healthcare innovations around the world Successful innovations, such as Zambia’s mobile phone project for HIV results, can result in widespread use and improved health outcomes.

The Five Year Forward View – the vision for the future of the NHS in England – will require radical change at every level of the healthcare system. We must take advantage of innovative ways of working, engage patients in their own care and implement new treatments and technologies. But the time lag between innovation and system-wide transformation is often too long.

Recent research by the Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) has sought to identify the factors that can facilitate rapid change. The IGHI examined eight organisations in seven countries that successfully introduced and rapidly spread an innovation that resulted in improved health outcomes.
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