In October 2018, the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) announced it was supporting the uptake of 12 high performing products, with the potential to improve the lives of up to 500,000 patients per year and save the National Health Service £30 million per year in England. All the products currently being supported by the AAC have been recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and therefore evidence on clinical benefits and cost savings were considered as part of the process.<\/p>
The AAC board met on 26 June and had a positive discussion about future products and expects to announce further products later this year.<\/p>
The AAC will consider the following areas of interest when determining which products to support:<\/p>
- evidence of clinical and cost effectiveness;<\/p>
- addressing significant unmet need;<\/p>
- application to large populations or high budget impact; and<\/p>
- enabling a novel mode of action or enabling significant changes to the care pathway.<\/p>
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As announced in the Life Sciences Sector Deal 2, up to £2 million of Pathway Transformation Funding has been made available to support the use and integration of product selected by the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) into every day practice within the National Health Service. In addition, four of the seven technology areas currently receiving AAC support have been selected to be funded by NHS England through the Innovation and Technology Payment programme (ITP). The ITP aims to remove financial and procurement barriers to support the NHS to adopt innovative medical devices, diagnostics, and digital products.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4008", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Gosport"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Caroline Dinenage"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-07-02", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-07-02T16:07:33.677Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-06-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Accelerated Access Collaborative"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how products selected by the Accelerated Access Collaborative will be funded.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4131", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jim Shannon"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Strangford"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jim Shannon"} ], "uin" : "268507"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1134020", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1134020/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
As it continues to drive forward the assessment and uptake of the best products for support, the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) has been empowered to be flexible and pragmatic enough to identify truly game-changing innovations, that may not be cost-neutral in year, but are assessed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to be both clinically and cost-effective. This will allow the AAC to identify products, or classes of products, that are most likely to significantly transform care in the National Health Service.<\/p>"} , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4008", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage"} } , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Gosport"} , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Caroline Dinenage"} , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2019-07-02", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2019-07-02T16:06:04.58Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} ]} , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "17"} , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Health and Social Care"} , "date" : {"_value" : "2019-06-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"} , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Accelerated Access Collaborative"} , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"} , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"} } ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether all products considered by the Accelerated Access Collaborative will have to be cost-neutral to the NHS.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"} , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/4131", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jim Shannon"} } , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Strangford"} , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jim Shannon"} ], "uin" : "268508"} , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1134021", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department of Health and Social Care"} ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/1134021/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "
The Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) is interested in identifying and supporting strategically important products that will have the biggest impact on patient health outcomes and/or the delivery of NHS services. This may include those which help control hospital-acquired infections.<\/p>
The AAC has already had made significant progress towards getting the best innovations to patients quicker and at a better cost for the National Health Service.<\/p>
Since 2018, NHS England has been supporting SecurAcath and Plus Sutures, products designed to reduce infection rates, on the Innovation and Technology Payment programme. SecurAcath is a device to secure catheters that reduces the infection risk for patients with a peripherally inserted central catheter and has benefited over 80,000 patients. Seven trusts with higher than 4% surgical site infection rates have adopted Plus Sutures, a triclosan coated suture, with more trusts to be supported this year.<\/p>
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There are no restrictions on the type of innovation that can be supported by the Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC). Medicinal products, therapeutic technologies, devices, diagnostics, and digital technologies are eligible to receive support.<\/p>
In October 2018, the AAC announced it was supporting to increased uptake and use of 12 high performing products, which span seven technology areas, in the National Health Service. Of the seven categories selected for support, two are medicines, four are diagnostic tests, and one is a device.<\/p>
Further information about the products the AAC are supporting can be found at the following link:<\/p>