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ON SCREEN: “a history of healthcare innovation”

ON SCREEN: “1867: carbolic acid used to sterilise surgical instruments”

ON SCREEN: “1896: Almoth Wright invents anti-typhoid vaccine”

NARRATOR
--a huge history of major inventions.

ON SCREEN: “1928: Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin”

Miracle out of mould when a brilliant doctor, Professor Alexander Fleming, discovered that it produces the drug known as penicillin.

ON SCREEN: “1948: NHS is founded, unveiled by Aneurin “Nye” Bevan”

We have a tremendous heritage.
--then proposes a comprehensive health service, securing medical treatment of all kinds for all citizens.

ON SCREEN: “1953: Watson and Crick discover DNA is a double helix”

ON SCREEN: “1956: Colin Murdoch invents disposable syringes”

--as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS, I could highlight at least two or three major discoveries every decade.

ON SCREEN: “1965: Frank Pantridge invents portable defibrillator”

ON SCREEN: “1973: Godfrey Houndsfield invents CAT scanner”

ON SCREEN: “1989: umbilical-cord blood used to repair damage from chemotherapy”

ON SCREEN: “2000: The Sanger Centre produces a draft of the human genome”

ON SCREEN: “2003: Peter Mansfield wins Nobel Prize for the MRI scanner”

ON SCREEN: “2007: Imperial College grow a heart valve from stem cells”

ON SCREEN: “2009: Innovation for a healthier future”

ON SCREEN: “2020: miniaturised haemo dialysis equipment in universal use?”

ON SCREEN: “2030: reversal of brain pathology for dementia?”

MAN
There are many innovations. Innovations in wellbeing. How do we prevent patients getting ill? Innovations in diagnosis. Innovations in treatments. Robotics is one good example. We're moving into what we call surgery without incisions in the future.

ON SCREEN: “2040: cure for obesity?”

ON SCREEN: “In 1948 a cataract operation immobilised a patient for a week. Now it’s over in 20 minutes and most go home the same day.”

MAN
British inventors are very creative in terms of making or inventing the technology. The vision sees through how do we actually turn technology into improved clinical practice.

ON SCREEN: “In 1958, hip operations were so rare patients had to return them post-mortem.”

ON SCREEN: “The first UK heart transplant patient survived 46 days.”

MAN
This is a piece of equipment that allows us to rehearse a surgical mission prior to doing it.

ON SCREEN: “Transplants are now routine and at least two dozen could be done in the same period.”

MAN
We performed the first patient procedure rehearsal carotid artery stenting last week.

ON SCREEN: “The world waited until 1978 for the first test tube baby.”

MAN
The future is about improving outcomes, minimising patient risk by simulation in a way that has been demonstrated in the airline industry.

ON SCREEN: “6000 test tube babies are now born here annually.”

MAN
Innovation isn't just about kit and drugs. It's about looking at the whole health care pathway. How do we tailor care around the needs of the patients? That's innovation.

ON SCREEN: “The breast screening programme introduced in 1988 now saves the lives of 1400 women a year.”

WOMAN
I was really excited about the opportunity to come to work in a paediatric short stay unit because it was a new way of developing patient care and new streamlined approach for patients.

ON SCREEN: “No-one now waiting more than 18 weeks for referrals to treatment.”

ON SCREEN: “9000 fewer deaths from cancer.”

MAN
Birmingham Own Health provides telephone-based care to people with long term conditions.
WOMAN
We build up a relationship with our members by making regular contact with them over the telephone. It's the first type within the UK of care management over the telephone.
Children, when they are here, and their families, will not just be passive recipients of care. When they leave and go home they go home as expert patients who are able much better to look after their own condition, know where to seek help, and therefore much less dependent on hospital care in the future.

ON SCREEN: “One of the highest percentages of women being screened for cervical cancer worldwide.”

MAN
Innovation isn't just for the doctors and nurses. Innovation is for everyone who works in the health care system. There are pockets of excellence that we should all be very proud of. How do we really diffuse that innovation? How do we copy it from one area and transplant it into another area? We need the front line staff, the 1.3 million people who work in the NHS, to have access to that evidence base.

ON SCREEN: “33,000 fewer deaths from cardiovascular in people under 75 in 2007 compared with 1997.”

MAN
It's innovation in management. How do we stop doing things that there isn't the evidence base supporting them? Innovation should be very much part of our culture.
MAN
Be imaginative, be brave, be bold, be prepared to take a risk, and you'll get the rewards.