Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will make an assessment of the effectiveness of the spread of the six highest impact innovations identified in NHS England's report, entitled Innovation, Health and Wealth, published in December 2011; and if he will make a statement.

The Department is funding RAND Europe and the University of Manchester to conduct a formative and summative evaluation of Innovation, Health and Wealth (IHW). The report on the first stage of the evaluation, including an assessment of progress towards actions within Theme 8: High Impact Innovations, can be found on the RAND Europe website:

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR1143.html

Since the publication of Creating Change: Innovation, Health and Wealth one year on in 2012, 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:

www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/nhs-inovation-into-action.pdf

The Accelerated Access Review is looking at this question of how the National Health Service adopts high impact innovations, and we expect to receive the final report in April.