This survey is being undertaken by the Medical Innovation and Commercialisation Accelerator Programme (MedIComm) which is a unique programme in partnership with UCLan and four Lancashire NHS trusts. We are looking to identify any new ideas, inventions or solutions originating from Trust colleagues that can demonstrate value in meeting a clinical need by providing health benefits to patients, improving patient care, and/or helping to drive down the cost of healthcare delivery. Your responses will help us understand any support you need to develop and implement your ideas, inventions or solutions in order to improve the health and wellbeing of Lancashire citizens and the wider NHS. If you want us to follow up with advice and support, please provide:Name First Last Job title Division Work email address Would you like to know more about the Trust’s innovation activities and what support can be provided? Yes No Have you or any of your team identified an area of clinical need or a clinical problem, or do you or your team have ideas, new products, services, technology or inventions that have the potential to improve or create new approaches, practices, treatments, technologies or services to health care delivery? Yes No Recognising Your Proposed Idea, Solution, New Product, Service, Technology or Invention:Solutions to clinical needs or problemsAre you aware of a clinical need or problem for which you could develop a solution if you had the right support? Yes No If yes, can you provide brief details of the need or problem that you have identified?Could this problem be widespread across the Trust or the NHS? Yes No Not sure Product, service or technology ideasDo you or anyone in your team have a product, service or technology idea that you believe has the potential to improve how you do your job, benefit your patients, the Trust and the wider NHS? Yes No If yes, can you provide a brief description of what is it?Could this product, service or technology idea be used across multiple clinical processes or pathways, Trusts and the wider NHS? Yes No Not sure InventionsAre you or any of your team working on an invention that has the potential to improve or create new approaches, practices, treatments, technologies or services to health care delivery? Yes No If yes, can you provide a brief description of what is it?Could this invention be reproduced and replicated across multiple clinical processes or pathways, Trusts and the wider NHS? Yes No Not sure StatusDoes your identified need, problem, product, service, technology idea or invention have any formal recognition within the Trust? Yes No Not sure If yes, what is the project name and who is working with you?Working with Industry: Existing CollaborationsAre you currently engaged in any collaborations with an industrial or commercial partner? Yes No If yes, who is your industrial or commercial partner?Please provide name(s) and contact detailsCan you please provide brief details of the nature of the collaboration?Does the collaboration involve any commercial activities? Yes No Not sure If yes, can you please provide brief details of the commercial activities?Does, or has the collaboration involve/d the creation of new Intellectual Property (IP) (either personal/Trust or third-party IP)? Yes No Not sure If yes, can you please provide brief details of the Intellectual Property?Is there any further support you require to manage the Intellectual Property in this collaboration? Yes No If yes, please provide further detailsAre you personally involved in an external business that is connected with your work at the Trust (e.g., a startup company)? Yes No If yes, what is the name of your external business collaborator?What is your relationship with this business?Have you received any support or advice from the Trust in connection with this business? Yes No If yes, can you please provide details of the support provided including the type of support?New CollaborationsDo you require help to identify technical partners to support the development of your product, service, technology or invention idea? Yes No Do you require help to identify a commercial partner to support the commercial exploitation of your product, service, technology or invention idea? Yes No Further Support:Preparing your product, service, technology or invention idea for exploitation / commercialization: To help you to realise your product, service, technology or invention or simply to find out more, we can offer you a flexible programme of support in key areas of the innovation process. Please click which area(s) you would like help, information, guidance on: Navigating the process for the development, spread and adoption of innovative inventions/solutions into the NHS Preparing ideas/inventions to achieve compliance with legal/ethical/regulatory requirements e.g., NICE, FDA etc. Preparing ideas/inventions for commercial exploitation e.g., License to a 3rd Party, creation of a new spin-out company outside of the NHS, etc. Securing funding/investment for commercial exploitation e.g., i4i, SBRI, NIHR, Innovate UK, AMRC, UKRI, Private and Institutional investors Any other area(s) Please provide detailsIntellectual Property Protection:Please click which area(s) of Intellectual Property protection you would like help, information, guidance on: Understanding why protecting ideas/inventions is important if they are to be adopted/deployed within the trust/wider NHS The Trust`s Intellectual Property Policy The Trust’s Revenue sharing arrangements from the exploitation of Intellectual Property What IP is and is not and the various types of rights available, including patents, designs, trademarks, copyright etc. Any further innovation/IP support or information that you would like the Trust to provide MediComm workshops are running from January 2023. They are aimed at providing colleagues with practical information and knowledge on IP and IP exploitation. Have you registered? I have already undertaken the MediComm training I have signed up for the September 2022 or January 2023 MediComm training I would like to know more about the MediComm training I don’t want to take the MediComm training at this time Further comments:Please use this box to share any further comments.
