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There is an observable trend in English health policy that emphasises the productive potential of the National Health Service (NHS) to generate economic wealth whilst also treating ill health.
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Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care. In 2019, these networks were re-launched as Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs).
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The Office of Life Sciences is now part of the renamed Department of Health and Social Care and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.
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The empirical research study of the early development of AHSN finished in 2016 and the findings were published in a full report in early 2017 (Ferlie et al. 2017). The networks were re-licensed in 2018 after a period of ambiguity about their future. However, due to innovation adoption and technology spread remaining a high priority in health policy, one connected to the UK’s Industrial Strategy, the networks have since been viewed in policy as a promising mechanism for supporting health care innovation and better relations at the interface of industry and the NHS. At a national level, the AHSNs have continued to demonstrate collective impact, such as by quantifying metrics on wealth and health outcomes. These include statistics such the 15 AHSNs creating over 500 jobs, leveraging over £330m and over 22 million patients benefiting from ‘AHSN input’. Attribution of successes to the AHSNs remains complicated to ascertain however given the numerous stakeholders, co-existing health networks and funding programmes involved in health care innovation pathways and processes.
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Ledger, J. (2020). Networking for Health, Networking for Wealth: A Study of English Health Innovation Policy in Practice. In: Bevir, M., Waring, J. (eds) Decentring Health and Care Networks. Organizational Behaviour in Healthcare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40889-3_8
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