Blog: What could the shift from hospital to community mean for research and innovation in the NHS?

Date: 20 March 2025

The Wellcome Trust recently published its vision for a research and innovation-powered NHS. The report calls for a renewed focus on research and innovation to be at the heart of the future NHS, positioning ‘research to reality’ as a ‘fourth essential shift’ that needs to sit alongside the government’s much talked-about three shifts (from analogue to digital, sickness to prevention and hospital to community). This blog by the Kings Fund discusses what this means for research and innovation that takes place outside of hospital settings.

Read here: https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/blogs/shift-hospital-community-research-innovation

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