CORU is leading the evaluation of the NHS England Innovation Test Bed at Care City, in collaboration with colleagues at UCL Department of Applied Health Research. The Test Bed is working to promote the adoption of innovative technologies and service pathways within the health and social care system in North East London, for instance introducing cheap and quick screening for atrial fibrillation to community pharmacies.
We are working to:
- conduct a qualitative analysis of different stakeholder perspectives on how the Care City team are working to promote adoption of innovation, and whether and how this could be better aligned with the priorities and aims of commissioners, providers and local authorities;
- identify from routine data sets any impact that the programme is having on measures such as diagnosis rates and health service utilisation;
- build and populate health economic models to understand the likely cost-effectivess of the innovations being promoted.