NHSA Science and Innovation Audit

In Autumn 2015, the UK Government announced regional Science and Innovation Audits (SIAs) to catalyse a new approach to regional economic development. SIAs enable place-based consortia to focus on analysing regional strengths and identify mechanisms to realise their potential.

The main hypothesis being tested in the Science and Innovation Audit is:

Utilising the North of England’s collective academic, clinical and business strengths in Health Data and Precision Medicine at a scale of up to 16 million people will have a greater impact on investment into, and the economic development of, the North of England and the UK than by utilising assets with smaller geographic and demographic footprints.

NHSA has commissioned SDG Economic Development to bring partners together to focus on the North’s strengths in Data for Better Health and Wealth and Precision Medicine.