The NHS has launched a new integrated service designed to strengthen partnerships with the life sciences sector and accelerate the uptake of innovation across the health and care system. Known as the Life Science Hub, this unique initiative is a collaboration between the four NHS Commissioning Support Units (CSUs). It offers expert guidance, data-driven insight, and hands-on support to connect the right innovations with the right parts of the NHS.

By bringing together strategic advisory, clinical expertise and real-world operational understanding, the Life Science Hub helps life sciences companies engage meaningfully with NHS stakeholders and demonstrate the true value of their products in practice.

Alison Tonge, Lead Director for the NHS Life Science Hubsaid: “The Hub is about creating clearer, faster pathways for innovation to be understood, adopted and embedded within the NHS. Our experience and expertise can help organisations overcome challenges and barriers to innovation adoption and therefore deliver better outcomes for patients as well as productivity and efficiencies gains.”

The hub’s approach is structured around three key service pillars:

• Acceleration and adoption: Aligning new treatments and technologies with NHS priorities and pathways to increase adoption and impact. Support includes evidence generation, market access, and implementation expertise.
• Maximising impact and optimisation: Optimising the adoption and growth of existing treatments by utilising NHS data, clinical insights, and pathway expertise.
• Strategic advisory support: Strategic access support, operational deployment expertise, and real-world insights to help the life sciences industry navigate the complex NHS landscape, drive adoption and scale.

The Life Science Hub works with a broad spectrum of organisations, from start-ups navigating NHS engagement for the first time to established companies looking to refine their offer or expand reach. Services range from health economics and pathway redesign to stakeholder engagement, sustainability planning and leadership development.

The Hub also directly supports NHS bodies, helping them evaluate innovations, optimise care pathways and implement change programmes that deliver lasting benefit.

With a multidisciplinary team spanning analytics, clinical expertise, consultancy, medicines management, public health and transformation, the Life Science Hub is uniquely placed to help bridge the gap between innovation and implementation.

To learn more about the Life Science Hub, please visit: https://healtheconomicsunit.nhs.uk/the-life-science-hub/