Maximising the Peninsula’s research and innovation assets
Driving impact for rural and coastal health
The region already has strong R&I capability across sectors and geographies.
We aim to leverage them by approaching them as collective assets. And secure external funding and investment to maximise value for the region.
This would be through:
- Improving population health
- Enhancing productivity of the health and care system
- Strengthening how we attract and retain our workforce
Through this collective approach, we can go further, faster. We can deliver more return on investment. We can combine a diversity of perspectives. And create the best conditions for innovation by avoiding silos and repetition.
This is an ambitious and exciting approach. It has the potential to reshape how research and innovation drives impact in the South West. And inform other rural and coastal communities, across the UK and beyond.
Areas of focus
We’re focusing on a small number of shared, major population health, care, and system challenges.
We’re taking a collaborative approach. This means working across-sectors to maximise the Peninsula’s research and innovation assets. And alongside communities to achieve impact greater than the sum of our parts. Aiming to deliver immediate impact through a pipeline of research and innovation projects. And develop a longer-term ‘Discovery’ phase portfolio for future years.
Our five areas of focus are:
Multiple Long-Term Conditions and Frailty
Improving the lives of people living who live with long term, multiple conditions and frailty
Mental Health
Promoting and enabling quality care for Mental Health and preventing ill health
Urgent Care
Immediate, compassionate and cost-effective urgent care
Cancer
Prevention, detection and treatment
Maternity, Neonatal
Addressing inequities in maternal and neonatal care
The partnership
A partnership which increases the impact of research and innovation to deliver maximum value for our population, our health and care system.
Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together the NHS, local authorities, the police, the voluntary sector and other independent providers of care and services we all rely upon.
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We exist to help improve the way our health and care systems in the South West identify, adopt and spread innovation to transform lives, improve population health, and drive economic growth.
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We work alongside health and social care professionals, researchers and local communities to address the immediate issues facing the health and social care system through applied health and care research.
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Our network serves Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. We make sure that research occupies the place it deserves in the day-to-day work of health and social care organisations across the region.
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One Devon is a collaboration of the NHS and local councils, as well as a wide range of other organisations like the voluntary sector, who are working together to improve the lives of people in Devon.
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An Integrated Care System (ICS) that brings NHS organisations, councils, public services as well as voluntary and community partners together to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone in their area.
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