1. Connects – 2nd July 2019
Denise Puckett – Head of Health & Care Engagement, Life Science Hub Wales

2. The role of the Life Sciences Hub Wales
To provide inspirational support to drive systematic change and outstanding health and care benefits for people and families across Wales.
Our Vision​
Our vision is to make Wales the place of choice for health, care and wellbeing innovation
Our Mission
Our mission is to accelerate the development and adoption of innovative solutions for better health and wellbeing.
Our role is to help improve the health and wealth of the people of Wales.
We do that by listening to our health and care services, and our wider Public Sector partners, so that we understand the wider, holistic picture
We help you to discover and understand citizens and staff needs – what are their priorities; which needs are currently unmet?
We work with you to find out if innovation can provide an effective solution.
At the same time, we work closely with industry and bring forward the best ideas from across the Life Sciences sector, supporting faster and easier implementation of innovation into our health, care and wellbeing services in Wales.
Our approach is embedded in our refreshed vision and mission statements.

3. Introduction to the Life Sciences Hub Wales - Video

4. Introduction to the Life Sciences Hub Wales - Video

5. Accelerate Opportunities
How we work: Life Sciences Hub Wales
HUB
Convene Partners
Orchestrate System
Accelerate Opportunities
Build for Future

6. Delivery Priorities Identify and develop innovation from industry.
Curate and promote innovation within NHS Wales.
Develop funding identification and delivery function in line with health and social care priority areas.
National programmes and innovation deployment.

7. Navigating the route to market
The Offer …
Navigating the route to market
Identifying priority patient needs and challenges in Wales and aligning these with potential solutions.
Helping innovators to be NHS ready with their products and services.
Helping business to navigate the NHS Wales route to market.
Supporting innovation and adoption
Identifying and prioritising opportunities to enable innovation adoption.
Working with partners to identify innovations of potential benefit to Wales.
Supporting the health and care sector to curate and mobilise innovation.

8. Building collaborative projects
The Offer …
Building collaborative projects
Formulating a pipeline of funding opportunities.
Identifying key stakeholders groups to collaborate in winning funding opportunities.
Convening and facilitating consortia and collaborative projects.
Sharing knowledge
Developing a knowledge bank of information, analysis and intelligence to support projects across health and social care in Wales.
Identifying and sharing project funding opportunities
Ongoing technology and innovation horizon scanning.

9. Helping business to locate in Wales
The Offer …
Helping business to locate in Wales
Soft landing service.
International partnerships and networks.

10. “Making better use of digital, data and communication technologies will help us to raise the quality and value of health and social care services, so that they are cost-effective and sustainable and also bring our offer in line with increasing expectations of technology in people’s day-to-day lives.”
‘A Healthier Wales’, Welsh Government, June 2018
Our vision and mission have been developed by our Board of Directors and endorsed by the Welsh Government.

11. The Innovation Network for Health and Social Care Wales
Bring together innovation champions, leads and practitioners across the health Social Care system in Wales, and from partner organisations.
Source, share and showcase good practice around health and care innovation and support scale up of innovative activity.
Provide a peer group to support the development of strategic plans.
Support an audit of key health and care innovations, national level unmet needs and opportunities.

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