Module overview
In this module, UK Healthcare Innovation and Design, the set of potential needs will come from the outcomes of the earlier Principles and Practice of UK healthcare for Medical Innovation module. You (and your team) will undertake a screening and prioritisation process to decide which need to take forward; this would consider the relevant contextual information, stakeholder insights, and other factors relating to the relevant UK healthcare space. You will do this following the framework outlined in the Responsible Innovation in Health Technology module. You will then undertake an ideation process to generate concepts for potential solutions. Critically applying an iterative innovation process, you will narrow these down to a single solution which you will then progress to prototype and test. Drawing upon the knowledge gained in the parallel Responsible Business Development and MedTech Commercialisation module, you will develop a business plan for the solution. At the end of the module, you will be required, as a team, to pitch your solutions to a multi-disciplinary group of stakeholders. Throughout the module, you will maintain a portfolio and reflective log which will form part of the final assessment. All students would meet on a weekly basis with their supervisors and other stakeholders.
The Project Context
The UK project is focused on the NHS. You will work with stakeholders, establishing needs and understanding care pathways. This includes points of access for patients through a primary care system (GPs) or emergency care (A&E) through secondary care in hospitals, and discharge into community care and integration with other support systems (social care services, voluntary sector services, etc.). You will explore the funding requirements of each part of the service in your project area, how decisions are made and how the service is reimbursed for its spending through the Department of Health & Social Care. This context is specific to the UK. The NHS is a highly complex and established service (over 70 years), where the UK population have free access to health and social care services and a certain expectation for timeliness and quality of the health service they receive.
This module incorporates the UK context-dependent learning outcomes of Responsible Innovation in Health Technology and Responsible Business Design, which will be assessed together with the LOs of this module in an integrated, summative assessment.