NHSA representing Northern innovation at Commonwealth Innovation Forum
The Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) is representing health innovation in the North of England at the Commonwealth Innovation Forum (TCIF) in Australia.
NHS CEO, Dr Hakim Yadi, will chair a panel at TCIF titled ‘Healing the People of the Commonwealth’, aimed at exploring how to improve health through policies, initiatives and innovations.
Coinciding the Commonwealth Games, TCIF aims to provide a platform for people from across the Commonwealth to come together to explore the possibilities post-Brexit, and the potential to create a new trading block driven by innovation.
Speaking about the event, Dr Yadi said: “The Commonwealth is young, diverse and growing – 60% of its population will be under the age of 30 by 2020 and the network contains not only some of the most stable economies in the world, such as Australia and Canada, but also some of the fastest growing, such as India, projected to be the second largest economy in the world by 2050.
“We will be exploring health priority issues affecting the peoples of the Commonwealth Nations and will seek to identify those policies, initiatives and innovations that can provide all of the commonwealth with equitable access to affordable and effective world class health services and health outcomes.”
Containing 53 countries, the Commonwealth covers a quarter of the globe’s landmass and boasts and gross national income of $10.7 trillion.
Dr Yadi continued: “The NHSA continues to work closely with the Commonwealth as a nation partner in health and technology, sharing expertise and innovations.
“Earlier this year we secured a memorandum of understanding with medical technology accelerator Zicom MedTacc in Singapore which see them come to the North of England first for their UK clinical validation.
“The commonwealth shares many common values and opportunities for the North of England, the whole of the UK and member countries to improve health and wealth through working together I look forward to exploring this with my fellow representatives.”