Commercial agreements

 

While our overarching funding comes from NHS England and the Government’s Office for Life Sciences, for some programmes of work, we develop joint working agreements with commercial organisations. In some instances, this includes additional funding which enables the health innovation networks and NHS to reach more patients, while ensuring the health and care system benefit from the very best innovations in health and care.

Known as a ‘transfer of value’, this could be a direct payment from industry to a regional health innovation network towards a health innovation network project or programme, or a secondment of staff from industry to support health innovation network projects.

Heath innovation network commercial agreements

For transparency, each health innovation network publishes information about individual transfers of value on its website, including reasons for entering the partnership.