2. What’s included
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Bringing One Acelity together
Partnerships for better care
Collaborating for an improved health system
How leaders can deliver impact
Inspiration and real world examples
4. United strength of three heritage companies
Our Vision: Restoring People’s Lives
Our Mission: To change the practice of medicine with solutions that speed healing, reduce
complications, create economic value and improve patients’ lives
Our Global Commitment: Advance the science of healing
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Complementary healing solutions
that extend from hospital to home
Meaningful innovation that
improves clinical outcomes and
reduces overall cost of care
Partnership with clinicians to
improve care delivery and healing
experience for patients
6. Together we can strengthen the healthcare
system
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1. Educate to engage
Cement the need for collaboration amongst stakeholders, highlighting best
practice, improved training and the journey to achieving ‘One Health’
system
3. Give everyone a voice
Consult all stakeholders (i.e. MedTech companies, government bodies,
clinicians, nurses and payers) to bolster cross-communications as one
avenue to strengthening the Irish system
2. Maintain innovation
Bolster Ireland to ensure it remains a key innovation hub for the MedTech
industry and identifying new opportunities
Better work together,
stakeholders partnering to strategically shape the healthcare environment
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Key takeaways
My call to action:
Take the lead to engage employees, seek appropriate
partnerships and work in tandem to create a powerful ‘One
Health’ system
• Do not underestimate the importance of strong leaders when creating a ‘One
Health’ system. You can be the difference
• All stakeholders have a role and a voice; creating the ‘One Health’ system that
works for everyone requires consultation and collaboration. Commitment is
just the beginning
• Better together – if we all embrace the opportunity to partner with other
stakeholders we can shape the healthcare environment for improved
patient care
Editor's Notes
TALKING POINTS:
Acelity is a globally diversified regenerative medicine company formed from the collaboration of three heritage companies: Kinetic Concepts, Inc., LifeCell Corporation and Systagenix Wound Management Limited.
Our shared values drive our company’s personality, culture and priorities
We are committed to advancing the science of healing, with a strong product portfolio that spans the wound healing continuum as well as reconstructive surgery
Part of our work is to collect and share clinical evidence – providing clinicians with insights into ways to improve the standard of care
Our objective is to deliver cost-effective products and techniques that help promote healing and reduce complications to transform lives for the better – we work in close partnership with the MedTech industry, medical community and government bodies to ensure we can meet this objective
TALKING POINTS:
By aligning our goals and ensuring we have the right combination of education, innovation and people we can better shape and strengthen the Irish health system to ultimately deliver optimal patient care
By educating our employees via best practice examples of partnerships and improved internal training opportunities, we can ensure that as separate stakeholder companies we are internally aligned on the need and benefits of collaboration
Ireland is currently a key innovation hub – by continuing to identify new opportunities for partnership and challenging the norm we can ensure it remains so
Strong communication amongst stakeholders to align on our goals and the journey to achieving them is vital to shape the healthcare environment in Ireland – we must increase the degree of our collaboration to have a stronger singular voice, together
Together we can achieve One Health System
TALKING POINTS:
Moving towards this ‘One Health’ system requires us not only to work together, but for us as leaders to take the responsibility to take those steps to make the needed changes, and provide guidance to our colleagues on what they can do.
Proactive managers, no matter which part of the health sector they belong to, should seek to:
Identify potential partners
- Amplify current productivity by extending your capabilities through partnerships internally or externally. We are all stronger together
2. Encourage collaboration within the work place
- Inspire and motivate colleagues to maximise cross-functional collaboration, as the foundations to better internal and external communication and joint efficiencies
3. Lead by example
- Take charge and drive momentum. Ireland Health minister, Simon Harris, is calling for health consensus and we should be ready to seize the opportunity to deliver
TALKING POINTS:
What is it that leaders of the different sectors you can see on this slide can do to better champion bringing the Irish sector together for a ONE HEALTH system?
Government bodies – need to further explore partnership potential with healthcare organisations, as we’ve seen successfully within the UK’s NHS as just one example. Joint working has produced significant system efficiencies since being introduced in the UK and we have positive lessons to take from their experience
Payers – investigate the economic efficiencies of partnerships further and embrace the impact they make. Cost efficiencies are delivered by price alone and we should all be investigating every opportunity available to the system to find strong efficiencies in all of their guises
Clinicians – this includes both surgeons and doctors alike – together we can ensure the most robust medical training schemes which in turn deliver patient value
Nurses – this includes everyone from acute to post-acute care – with more communication and collaboration across the breadth of the patient journey we can better identify new areas for increased attention and efficiency
Patients – advocacy groups need to inspire patients to speak out about what they need from their healthcare system, the patient voice remains the most critical of all
MedTech / Pharma – look for external opportunities to share knowledge and skills, as well as work to ensure the broadest possible system access to their products and services
TALKING POINTS:
Governmental health bodies around the world use partnerships to deliver value-based strategies. Every country, Ireland included, needs to take inspiration from the models making real impact.
1. A well known example of partnership based value delivery is the NHS Health and Social Care Act 2012
This changed the structure of the NHS and how it was ran, paving the way for privatisation
Whilst privatisation is often considered controversial, the idea here as to mandate that all providers (governmental sectors and individual companies including pharma) had to compete on value with the overall aim of improving quality
The Act allowed for partnerships between private companies such as Pharmaceutical or MedTech companies to offer the best service that was available for patients
It’s definitely not a perfect example, or one that I necessarily endorse, but an interesting example of a national healthcare system attempting to rise to the partnership need
2. Another example of Governmental health partnerships can be see in the UK’s Change 4 Life campaign
- The organisers of the public health campaign have realised the potential to extend reach and impact by partnering with companies and associations such as charities, utility companies and supermarkets to deliver public messages. Obviously the public is just one example of a health system audience but a critical one
TALKING POINTS:
Many pharmaceutical and MedTech companies have successfully partnered with academics, suppliers, charities etc. to help address clinical unmet need – as just one example of the types of collaborations that can strengthen aspects of the system
As an industry, innovation has always been at the heart of what we do. Innovation will be key for developing better patient outcomes and a sustainable healthcare system. Forming strong partnerships across industries will help drive this important change.
As the demand for and cost of healthcare continues to rise, adoption of collaboration across the industry is crucial to stimulate the sector, drive innovation and meet the challenge of achieving One Health System
As Irelands medtech sector is the highest employer in Europe, we should maximise opportunities with growing demands to become major contributors to global healthcare and global economy
An example of a successful existing partnership:
The unique collaboration in Ireland a few years ago, led by the University of Limerick saw the partnership of 24 industry partners, 9 research performing organisations and 12 international academic collaborators to form The Synthesis & Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC)
The role of the SSPC is to link experienced scientists and engineers in academia and the pharmaceutical industry, to address critical research challenges
The SSPC leads the way for next generation drug manufacture and aims to deliver industry relevant solutions, which result in job growth and retention within the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland
2. Takeda Ireland’s community partnerships has seen a more localised approach to its CSR programme. They have partnered with the CPLN Area Partnership on a number of community development projects to meet the needs of people, welcoming school educational tours, to encourage the take up of science-based subjects at Leaving Cert Level - this brings us back to the importance of training and nurturing the future innovators to ensure Ireland’s workforce have the skills they need for the MedTech businesses of tomorrow.
3. Another example of partnerships is the “Centre-to-Centre” collaboration, a tripartite US-Ireland R&D partnership to establish and deliver new end-to-end continuous manufacturing capabilities for poorly soluble micron and nano-sized drugs. The manufacture of nano-particles of medicines on a commercial scale remains a major challenge. The Irish American Partnership Programme offers an exciting opportunity to work towards the development of continuous manufacturing to address this challenge and the combined expertise should result in new solutions to increase operating efficiency
TALKING POINTS:
Focusing on the principal that it will be better together, if we all embrace the opportunity to partner with other stakeholders we can shape the healthcare environment for improved patient care
We need everyone to ensure that they get involved. It is key that we do not underestimate the importance of strong leaders when creating a ‘One Health’ system. You can be the difference
All stakeholders have a role and a voice; creating the ‘One Health’ system that works for everyone requires consultation and collaboration. Commitment is just the beginning
Takeaway from the presentation:
My call to action: Take the lead to engage employees, seek appropriate partnerships and work in tandem to create a powerful ‘One Health’ system. Let’s inspire one another