See our Downloads ▼ section to access our document – providing an overview of all guidance currently available for medical technology innovation opportunities and adoption. It will be updated monthly, please check back frequently.
This document will include:
- Novel Innovation available via the Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS).
- NHSE MedTech Funding Mandate opportunities.
- Value Based Procurement (VBP).
- Novel Innovation and new areas to frameworks.
The guide is built to be used by a variety of roles – for example procurement professionals, clinical specialists, project improvement leads, finance managers and innovation leads.
It will help you to build work plans at a time suitable to you, highlighting different types of benefits that can be realised, and opportunities for improvement in some of the more challenging areas of your work.
We will continue to support you with this process, but have made this information available here to be accessed as and when you need it.
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Key features:
- Products broken down to speciality areas, and patients in scope.
- Product description.
- Hyperlinks to NICE guidance, cost savings and case studies.
- Links to NHS Supply Chain VBP and case studies.
- Reference site details.
- NPC codes.
- Financial benefits.
- Operational benefits.
- Patient benefits.
- Environmental benefits.
- Key stakeholders.
- Health Innovation Network (HIN) Lead if MedTech Funding Mandate (MTFM).
- Additional resources.
- Contact details (in addition to your Hospital Care Team – ICS Managers).
New updates in October 2024
See our Downloads ▼ section to access the full document. Each month, we’ll provide a high level summary of the latest updates here.
MedTech Funding Mandate
| Product name | Speciality area | Cashable savings | Non-cashable savings | Wider benefits – patients | Wider benefits – environmental |
| AposHealth® | MSK pathway | % of patients will not need Total Knee Replacement and another % will require less support whilst waiting for operation. Three year per patient saving £3,976. | Reduced number of patients joining waiting list. Ability to help reduce existing waiting list. Can be treated by MSK APH team out of hospital clinic. | Reduced pain. Increased mobility and range of motion. Increase in self care at home. Improves pre-operative knee health if operation still required. | Reduction in number of patients who require surgery has environmental benefits from those procedures. |
New innovation by framework launch
| Product name | Speciality area | Cashable savings | Non-cashable savings | Wider benefits – patients | Wider benefits – environmental |
| HydroBubble | Bubble Positive Expiratory Pressure treatment for respiratory patients. | At least £200 per patient per year where the HydroBubble replaces the NHS traditional approach of using one litre sterile water bottle plus oxygen tube and then throwing it away. | Reusable so treatment can continue on discharge. | Increase in quality of treatment for very vulnerable patients. | Reusable. Saves money by reducing waste. Helps with NHS zero carbon targets. |
| Kurin Lock | All patients on sepsis pathway. | Cost saving of £73 per person based on reduced length of stay, and reduced antibiotic usage. | Improved efficiency in laboratories, reduced time spent on result calls from false positives. | Improved patient experience, stopping treatment that is not required earlier. | Reduction in use of consumables. |
| Phagenyx neuromodulation system | Neurogenic dysphagia , ITU, Stroke | The projected five year savings from treating just 30 patients per year is £562,483. Non-surgical solution and not a traditional Implantable Pulse Generator (IPG). With this context, our target patients are acute post stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients suffering from neurogenic dysphagia and who may or may not require mechanical ventilation. Secondarily, there is a population of non-stroke patients who have peripheral desensitisation of the pharynx due to prolonged mechanical ventilation. | Earlier decannulation tracheostomy. Earlier removal of feeding tubes. Reduction in TPN or PEG feeding. Reduction of infection risks from the same. Decreased length of stay. Move patient from ITU and mechanical ventilation to Standard care wards. | Swallowing difficulties affect over 50% of patients post-stroke. In critical care, dysphagia affects up to 62%. Dysphagia is linked to: malnutrition, dehydration, increased length of stay, higher mortality rates, aspiration pneumonia and reduced quality of life. Alongside the physical impact of dysphagia, there are inevitable psycho-social consequences, embarrassment, low mood. Improved quality of life. | Less consumables for PEG feeding and TPN. |
Sustainability
| Product Name | Speciality Area | Cashable Savings | How can the customer see the benefits. Non-cashable savings | How does this improve the patient pathway. Wider benefits (Patient) | Wider benefits (Social Values/Sustainability) |
| Double Bowling Medical Pulp Washbowls | Patient Facing areas | Customers will save on the cost per patient wash. £0.1986/bowl (cheapest bowl MFP) using 2 would be £0.3972. Plus cost in use with Macerator down time due to jamming with feeding in 2 bowls as a time. Facilities cost if PFI Cashable saving would be staff having confidence in the bowls efficacy to give the impression of not leaking therefore staff using one bowl and not two, i.e double or treble bowling. | Trust can be assured that 1 bowl is adequate for the job of washing patients. The bowls have undergone modifications over time and had strengthening measures put in place to make sure they are fit for purpose and do not sag underneath. The bowls have been tested by NHS Supply Chain under varying temperatures (upto 50deg C) and they did not leak. One of the suppliers of the bowl is undergoing some design changes by adding feet underneath the bowl so the bowl will not be sitting directly on a surface which could be giving the appearance of leaking but this is due to condensation underneath when the bowl is placed on a colder surface. | No direct benefit for the patient but allows nursing staff to feel confident the bowl is not going to cause leakage, spillage on patient, ward whilst using 1 bowl. Quality improvements. The bowl will not become soggy on the bottom due to the feet giving the bowl elevation from being placed directly on a flat surface when carrying out the washing of a patient. | Less product coming in to trusts. Less product coming into depots. Less waste going into the drainage system. Less Macerator blockages. |
| Reusable leg wraps | Venous and mixed aetiology leg ulcers patients. | Reduced total cost of treatment over 3-6 month period purchasing reusable wrap as opposed to cost of individual single use bandages. | Reduced clinical intervention- reduction in seniority of nurse applying system (from registered nurse trained in compression to any person including patient) reduced frequency of visits if patient/carer/family member applies system. | More autonomy and control over compression, can alter/adjust independently, can renew and refresh at time which suits them, rather than waiting for district nurse or GP appointment. | Reduced logistics, in providing reuseable wraps, as opposed to single use bandages, reduced waste production, specifically clinical waste with single use bandages as opposed to wraps which are machine washable and re-used. |
Approved VBP
| Product name | Speciality area | Cashable savings | Non-cashable savings | Wider benefits – patients | Wider benefits – environmental |
| Hand towel sleeves to hand towel rolls VBP | All areas | This allows people to save on the cost in use, research shows users on average use 2 sheets at a time on a roll, compared to 4 out of sleeves. | Keeps the area around the dispensers cleaner/tidier. | Fewer reload times, which allows more time for domestics to clean. There are more sheets on a roll than in a sleeve. | Fewer deliveries, less waste, reduction in use leads to environmental benefits. |