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Innovation for health: making a difference

Report of the Healthcare Industries Taskforce (HITF) Strategic Implementation Group (SIG) on progress towards implementation of the recommendations in HITF's report "Better health through partnership: A programme for action" (November 2004).

The HITF report identified a range of key outputs for delivery under the implementation programme of the HITF Strategic Implementation Group (SIG). Progress has been made on all of these outputs and, on some of them, SIG can point to significant achievement, in particular on:

• device evaluation to inform procurement decisions
• stimulating more innovation and encouraging a more entrepreneurial culture in industry and the NHS
• building research and development capacity
• the creation of Healthcare Technology Co-operatives (HTC) pilots to pioneer specialist techniques in patient treatments and to inform the future development of such collaborations.

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• Better health through partnership: A programme for action