Towards affordable healthcare: why effective innovation is key

Authors:
BAMFORD Sally-Marie, et al
Publisher:
International Longevity Centre UK
Publication year:
2017
Pagination:
58
Place of publication:
London

This report explores the potential for innovation to improve health care within the UK and how the ‘right type’ of innovation could make health care better and cheaper, essentially doing “more with less”. It is the second in a major programme of work looking into how we can afford a sustainable older society. The report showcases seven specific global and UK innovations with a strong evidence base of demonstrable success, and calculates the savings that could be achieved by implementing them across the UK. The examples include: The Memory First Project, an integrated dementia service run by a consortium of GPs which has successfully reduced dementia diagnosis times in Staffordshire; Canterbury Integrated Care in New Zealand, which has resulted in reduced nursing home admissions and hospital use; Stay on Your Feet Programme, aimed at preventing falls among older people in a region of Australia; Protocol 3 (P3) which provides care services to older people in need of care 24/7 in Belgium; and EASYCare, a global project to extend healthy active life in old age. By modelling the seven health innovations in the UK, the report concludes that the innovations could save the NHS up to £18.5 billion between 2015 and 2030. The report concludes that whilst the UK is well placed to innovate to improve health outcomes and reduce costs, it is often not doing enough with the tools at its disposal. (Edited publisher abstract)

Subject terms:
health care, costs, NHS, efficiency, intervention, demographics, case studies, older people, prevention;
Location(s):
United Kingdom
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