Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what effect the sunset review of NHS and his Department funded or sponsored innovation bodies, set out in the Innovation, Health and Wealth report, published in December 2011, had on the form, funding and effectiveness of such bodies.
The sunset review of innovation and improvement bodies was an internal review which helped shape long term plans for a number of organisations, including the 15 academic health science networks.
The Department is funding RAND Europe and the University of Manchester to conduct a formative and summative evaluation of Innovation, Health and Wealth. The project is expected to complete in 2017, the report on the first stage of the evaluation is due to be published imminently. Further details can be found on the RAND Europe website:
www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/innovation-health-wealth.html
Since the publication of One Year On in 2012, an update on the implementation of the Innovation Health and Wealth (IHW) report, there has been a great deal of progress made in many of the IHW work streams. Much of this has been incorporated into NHS England’s Innovation Into Action: Supporting delivery of the NHS Five Year Funding View, published in September 2015 and can be found at:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nhs-inovation-into-action.pdf