Pharmacy project chosen by NHS Innovations
A pharmacy project is among those selected for further development by NHS
Innovations, a network of regional intellectual property management “hubs” set up across England to capture and commercialise ideas generated by NHS employees.
The Pharmacy Manufacturing Database is being developed by the Royal Free
Hampstead NHS Trust in partnership with a small software company. It
will support the quality assurance and management processes involved
in pharmaceutical manufacturing departments.
NHS Innovations hubs have allowed the NHS to capture ideas that would
otherwise have been lost. “Until the hubs were created, an employee
with an exciting innovation had nowhere to go,” Tony Bates, NHS
intellectual property adviser, commented. “Good ideas leaked out,
often going abroad, and any benefits to the inventor, the NHS and UK
industry were lost,” he added.
In the year up to March 2004, the NHS Innovations hubs handled almost
500 ideas
brought in by NHS staff. Over 100 were selected for further development
and 24 licences were granted.
Among the other projects selected for further development is a web portal
providing drug safety, drug efficacy and health economics data and a
database of clinical trials activity and appropriate contacts for clinical
trials carried out in the north-west of England. |
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