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Guidance and glossary

Background Innovation scorecard overview The Innovation Scorecard is an action taken from the Department of Health and Social Care's (DHSC) paper titled "Innovation Health and Wealth: Accelerating Adoption and Diffusion in the NHS" (IHW)…

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Background and introduction

Background In December 2011, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) set out plans to support the development, adoption and spread of innovation in the NHS. It published a report titled "Innovation, Health and Wealth, accelerating adoption…

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Estimates Report

Key findings The comparison of expected uptake to the actual volume of medicines used in the NHS in England is available in the national level medicine groupings interactive dashboard. You can find the dashboard on the online web platform. The…

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Assumed Daily Dose (ADD) methodology

Introduction This section explains the use of Assumed Daily Doses (ADDs) for measuring medicine utilisation in the Innovation Scorecard. It discusses why ADDs are used, how they are used in calculations, and the principles applied to assign ADDs.…

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