The UK should aspire to nothing less than a health and care system that delivers the best patient outcomes in the world. We believe that a strong partnership between NHS and industry is the best way to improve outcomes for patients now and in the future.
Together we can:
- Deliver ambitious, scalable projects that improve patient outcomes, create efficiencies within the NHS and reduce health inequalities for people across the UK
- Create an innovation-ready NHS that can embrace new approaches to prevention and treatment
- Make the best use of data to enhance NHS research capability, generate real world evidence and allow the value of innovation to be more fully understood
We are contributing to the NHS England consultation on the NHS Ten Year Plan to help make this vision a reality. In doing so, we are building on thriving agreements already in place between our industry, the NHS and other system partners:
- the Birmingham partnership to help transform the health, wellbeing and wealth of the people of Birmingham
- the Greater Manchester partnership to help transform the health, wellbeing and wealth of the people of Greater Manchester
- the ABPI-AHSN Network Partnership to accelerate the spread of biomedical innovations into the NHS
- the ABPI-NHS England Priority Diabetes Initiative to help deliver the goals of the National Diabetes Strategy
We are also supporting Health Data Research UK and the NHS in the establishment of health data research hubs that will improve the speed and efficiency of clinical studies, and allow the evaluation of innovative treatments on care pathways, as recommended in the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy.
We understand the importance of promoting careers in life sciences, as they benefit not just industry, but academia and the NHS. To inform development of our work on careers and skills needs, we draw on our biennial skills gap analysis, our most recent report being Bridging the Skills Gap. We are also a founding member of the Clinical Pharmacology Skills Alliance, which aims to develop and support a long-term, cross-sector action plan for clinical pharmacology.
NHS-Industry Partnership Case Studies Repository
The ABPI and its members are working towards creating a repository of NHS Partnerships case studies, to enable industry to demonstrate what we can achieve in collaboration with the health and care system.
Birmingham Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
New partnership to tackle Birmingham’s biggest health challenges
The Manchester Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
New partnership set to help ‘transform’ access to medicines for patients in Greater Manchester.
Our key guidance
New guidance to help the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry work successfully together.
The UK Life Sciences Industrial Strategy should be required reading for every healthcare leader in the UK. It makes clear that the NHS must be an active participant with industry in delivering the shared objective of outstanding patient outcomes.
This guidance has been developed by the AHSN Network and the ABPI.
NHS publications
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Transforming lives, improving health outcomes: tackling the true cost of variation in uptake of innovative medicines
A new report from the NHS Confederation and ABPI has demonstrated the importance of the collaboration between industry and the NHS to improve patient outcomes across the UK.
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PwC - Transforming lives, raising productivity
This report has been produced to understand the benefits of increased investment in clinically-and cost-effective innovative medicines to patients, society and the economy.
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PwC - Transforming lives raising productivity - infographic
This infographic has been produced to understand the benefits of increased investment in clinically-and cost-effective innovative medicines to patients, society and the economy.
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PwC - Transforming Lives and Raising Productivity Factsheet
These key messages have been produced to understand the benefits of increased investment in clinically-and cost-effective innovative medicines to patients, society and the economy.
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Briefing paper: Embedding Research in the NHS – Cross sector Health and Care Bill briefing
The Government has set an ambition for the UK to become the destination of choice for clinical research; an ambition shared by the UK’s research and life sciences community. We set out an opportunity to embed research within the NHS
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NHS Confederation and ABPI: An examination of health inequalities in diabetes care in Leicester
The Leicester City CCG area has one of the highest prevalences of diabetes in England. Leaders in Leicester have invested significant resources in prioritising up-to-date, evidence-based approaches to treating diabetes.
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NHS Confederation and ABPI: An examination of health inequalities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care in the North West
Parts of the North West have some of the highest levels of COPD in England. Knowsley is the site of a national flagship programme to deliver respiratory services using a new community-focused care model.
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NHS Confederation and ABPI: An examination of health inequalities in cancer care in Kent and Medway
The Kent and Medway Cancer Alliance brings together healthcare providers from across Kent and Medway, commissioners, hospices, patient representatives, voluntary and charitable organisations and the National Institute for Health Research, to transform the diagnosis, treatment and care for cancer patients.
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Joint working
Joint Working projects aim to deliver ‘triple wins’ in the form of benefits to patients, the NHS and the pharmaceutical company or companies involved.
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A new ambition for cross sector collaboration with the life sciences industry to support NHS sustainability and transformation
The UK Life Sciences Industrial Strategy should be required reading for every healthcare leader in the UK. It makes clear that the NHS must be an active participant with industry in delivering the shared objective of outstanding patient outcomes.
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Simplifying cross-sector working between NHS Integrated Care Systems, Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships and industry: Guidance on governance and process
This guidance sets out a series of governance and process recommendations to enable NHS Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STPs) and Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) rapidly and confidently to develop collaborations with industry partners to address local health needs.
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Compact agreement between Specialised Services Clinical Reference Groups and the ABPI
Compact agreement between Specialised Services CRGs and the ABPI