Information events for NHS commissioners and providers showcase how to procure cost-saving innovations and be reimbursed by NHS England

The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is to host a series of information events in partnership with local Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) to demonstrate how NHS commissioners and providers can be reimbursed for the procurement of cost-saving, outcomes-based innovations.

The ‘Improving outcomes, cutting costs’ events will specifically showcase the five NIA innovations available to procure via central funding and the new Innovation and Technology Tariff (ITT) from 1 April 2017. NHS England will also be introducing the ITT and providing insight as to how it will work.

Why should I attend?
Attendees will be able to access some of the country’s best evidence-based innovations and be reimbursed by NHS England; learn how these innovations have improved efficiencies, benefitted patients and secured cost savings across other NHS organisations; meet the NIA Fellows who represent these innovations and see first-hand how they work; and find out how to replicate these benefits across your organisation.

These innovations include: 

• MyCOPD: Online self-management system for COPD proven to correct 98% of patient inhaler errors without clinical involvement, to reduce acute hospital admissions, improve the quality of patients’ lives and save an average CCG - with a COPD population of around 5,000 patients - £200,000 in the first year alone.
  
  
• The Non-Injectable Arterial Connector (NIC): Patient safety device which stops medication being accidentally given through the arterial lines used to monitor the blood of patients in ICUs and operating theatres. Improves safety and infection control, while offering regional savings of over £156,500 per year. 
  
  
• PneuX Prevention System: Patient safety device designed to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), affecting some 20,000 patients each year, around a third of whom will die, with each episode costing the NHS between £10,000 and £20,000.
  
  
• Episcissors-60: Guiding mediolateral episiotomy evidenced to minimise the risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASIS), delivering savings through reduced OASIS repair (£1,625 per patient, litigation costs, and elective caesarean sections.
  

• AliveCor’s Kardia: Mobile ECG device for the identification and measurement of atrial fibrillation (AF) - the cause of between 25,000-35,000 strokes in the UK per year.
  

How to register for ‘Improving outcomes, cutting costs’
Register via the link below to attend the last event date in London. Places are limited, so attendees are advised to register as soon as possible.

• LAST DATE: Tuesday 30 May, London (4pm-6pm)
  

For more information e-mail Rebekah Tailor, NIA communications and engagement manager: rebekah.tailor@uclpartners.com

The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is an NHS England Initiative delivered in partnership with the Country’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs), hosted by UCLPartners. It supports delivery of the Five Year Forward View by accelerating uptake of high impact innovations for patient, population and NHS staff benefit, and providing real time practical insights on spread to inform national strategy. For more information, click here.

The Innovation and Technology Tariff (ITT) is a new initiative from NHS England which goes live on 1 April 2017. The ITT aims to reduce difficulties experienced by commissioners and clinicians in implementing innovative technologies, by reimbursing NHS organisations when an approved innovation is used, removing the need for multiple price negotiations between providers and suppliers.