The Test Bed programme will evaluate a combination of technologies with innovations in how services are delivered. The aim is to address the barriers that have constrained the impact of innovation.
The ‘test bed’ programme will evaluate a combination of different technologies with innovations in how services are delivered in the NHS. The aim of this ‘real world’ testing, at chosen sites across the UK, will be to identify and address some of the barriers that have constrained the impact of innovation.
There is no shortage of innovation in the NHS, but often innovations do not have the reach or impact that would be expected in other industries. One barrier that has been identified is the fact that innovations are often tested in isolation from the complementary NHS services needed to ‘unlock their full potential’. Innovations have also been implemented ‘without rigour and discipline, generating little evidence about how to achieve impact in real world NHS settings’.1
To address these issues, the NHS Five Year Forward View set out the intention to develop a small number of ‘test beds’, with the aim of evaluating the real world impact of new technologies offering both better care and better value for taxpayers, testing them together with innovations in how NHS services are delivered.
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