Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to publish the results of the Innovation Health and Wealth refresh.

NHS England has advised that the publication of this review has been superseded by the Five Year Forward View which was published on 23 October 2014 and is available at:

www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/futurenhs/

The Five Year Forward View builds on the progress made through the Innovation Health and Wealth work programme, and signals new initiatives to support innovation, such as ‘test bed’ sites to deploy and test new technologies in a real-world setting.

More broadly, both the Department and NHS England have made good progress in delivering the aims of Innovation Health and Wealth, and remain committed to driving improvements in health through developing, testing and spreading innovation across the health system. For example, ongoing improvements are being made to the Innovation Scorecard, to enhance its effectiveness as a tool to support the identification of unjustified variation in the uptake of new technologies in the NHS.