NHS Confederation Annual Conference 4 June Matching Health with Growth – the UHB Story

UHB’s mission “d elivering the best in care …”

Links to growth and regeneration “and doing this in a way which increases prosperity and reduces disadvantage across Birmingham and beyond”

Dual approach Training local people into existing and new jobs Creating jobs through growth in life sciences

The Learning Hub: helping reduce disadvantage broadening access for unemployed people to training and jobs in healthcare partnership-based focal point for working with our local communities

The Hub: wide range of programmes but common integrated core partner and community engagement referrals through JobCentrePlus, community events and word of mouth information sessions confidence-building; cv’s and mock interviews placements post-employment support and mentoring

The “edge” the Hub gives unemployed people training by staff who understand the NHS in a building which shows we value them with placements to give them real experience and mentoring throughout

Impact 1700

European and External Funding for the Learning Hub £1.2m capital contribution for the Hub building from the European Regional Development Fund and Advantage West Midlands £5m+ revenue support through eg European Social Fund, Work Programme, SFA, City Council, HEWM new ESF programme

Current ESF call: Youth Employment Initiative City Council led Partnership based Health sector component £2.2m: £1.1m ESF Match very largely value of time So what will it fund?

ESF: YEI proposed key activities Pre-employment and pre-apprenticeship training Working with homeless, NEET’s and other very disadvantaged groups Mentoring Apprenticeship coordinator 1300 young people could benefit

Benefit to UHB substantially improved retention lower sickness rates loyalty and motivation

Creating jobs through life sciences A real comparative advantage

Internationally-recognised clinical academic community New Hospital and state of the art clinical facilities Patient population scale and diversity Established world-leading IT analytics capability Excellent clinical trials infrastructure Successful commercialisation and healthcare innovation

Delivering life sciences excellence through partnership Advantage West Midlands LEP City Council private sector Birmingham Health Partners WMAHSN and HEWM

Translating discovery science into improved health through technological innovation

Birmingham’s Institute of Translational Medicine Proposal via GBS LEP and supported by BCC. £24m investment on the Edgbaston Campus. 50% BIS/DH funded 50% BHP. Will generate 600 jobs in the wider life sciences community by 2018 and up to 2000 high value jobs

The ITM will co-locate All components of an effective translational infrastructure Dedicated Stratified Medicine floor Integrated bio-informatics platform Early drug discovery Commercial business hub for pharma, bio-tec, SME’s

ERDF can fund a range of activities Transnational Centres of Excellence Innovation Engine Creative Digital Health Solutions

Economic benefit tackling the skills gap and narrowing the gap between the least and most well off areas and communities tackling the region’s output gap by: – delivering new, high value added, knowledge intensive jobs – demonstrating innovation and networking – improving the image of Birmingham and the West Midlands

Health benefit accelerate the delivery of personalised healthcare cure disease and save lives by applying transformative technology speed up the rate at which research can improve patient outcomes facilitate rapid and cost-effective assessment of new drugs, medical devices and diagnostics to more quickly bring them to market and front-line clinical use

So what makes success in ERDF / ESF more likely? Understanding that ESIF is primarily about economic development But that can be done in way that health benefits Partnership with key stakeholders Technical capacity and good administrative systems ESIF isn’t always the right way forward: Article 61

Win-Win

Healthcare can use ESIF to be at the heart of regeneration