Foresight study to assess how the City and Growth Deals can provide opportunities for Northern Ireland’s Life and Health Sciences [...]

As the Northern Ireland economy continues its recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, the government is now looking further ahead and implementing frameworks that aim to put Northern Ireland in a stronger position to withstand crises like the current one in the future.

Key findings and 7 high-level recommendations from BBSRC's review of its technology development portfolio and associated support mechanisms.

Professor Ben Goldacre’s review into how the efficient and safe use of health data for research and analysis can benefit patients and the healthcare sector.

This POSTnote gives an overview of these uses, and their potential impacts on the cost and quality of healthcare, and on the workforce.

This POSTnote from the UK Parliament provides an overview of vaccine development and technologies.

HealthTech Report 2021 TechIreland - Innovation island has produced the 2021 Health Tech Report 2021. The report looks at the [...]

Life Sciences Vision The UK Government has published its Life Sciences Vision. This report takes a detailed look at the [...]

The studies included in this report show that the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in the European healthcare setting presents a series of unique challenges that will require large, collaborative and transparent efforts crossing boundaries of profession and geography.

The pharmaceutical industry plays an important role in Northern Ireland’s economy. It employs a significant number of people and has a track record of globally recognised research achievements to go with its valuable manufacturing base.

This report tells us that the Life Sciences sector has the potential to create approximately 133,000 jobs over the next 10 years, and that digital and computational skills, statistical literacy, leadership and inter-disciplinary working are essential to its continued success.

This document builds on POST’s previous publication, Topics of Interest 2018 and represents evidence gathered between May 2018 and April 2019. Topics included consist of areas of change with a larger volume of evidence attached that are likely to have significant impact, as these are most likely to be of most interest to Parliament.

This report explores what Innovation Superclusters are, how they are formed, and how countries can get started building one.

This list sets out the topic areas identified of possible parliamentary interest under the 9 different category headings (Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Forestry, Crime, Defence, Education and Skills, Energy, Environment, Health, ICT and Robotics and Transport and Infrastructure).

The Knowledge Economy Index has become a key annual publication in tracking the health of the Northern Ireland innovation economy. It uses key data year-on-year to compare our performance with other regions and monitor the availability of capital.

In this report, Horizon 2035 outlines some initial results and messages from their work to date. A final publication will follow  once all analysis of this extensive work has been completed and verified.

A Healthcare UK report on how partnership with the UK in Genomics and Personalised Medicine could transform healthcare.

If Northern Ireland is to provide world-leading standards of healthcare to its citizens whilst creating strong, sustainable economic outputs the sector must be understood and delineated accurately and in detail. This report seeks to lay the foundations of this understanding so that a clear and concerted strategy may be developed to serve the needs of patients dovetailed to Northern Ireland’s future economic growth.

In this paper we present a snapshot of how Northern Ireland is already proactively involved in precision medicine development, how it is primed to expand this contribution, and why increasing numbers of national and global organisations are partnering with Northern Ireland to realise the full benefits precision medicine can deliver.

The Life and Health Sciences Horizon Panel recommended that Northern Ireland becomes the first UK region committed to the early adoption of a telehealth system within the Health and Social Care practice.