THREAD: IPPR's new report "The Innovation Lottery" is out today.

Key message: it shouldn't matter who you are, or where you live. You should get the best possible healthcare.

Read it all here: http://www.ippr.org/research/publications/the-innovation-lottery

The UK is often fantastic at thinking up new ways to improve your healthcare.

Where we struggle is getting those ideas into practice, consistently, to all who need them

What does that mean? Well, first it means avoidable deaths and morbidity.

But it means extra costs to the NHS.

And, as we now see clearly, health is crucial to the economy. So it means lost value for that, too.

. @Carnall_Farrar have run the numbers. Getting the best treatment, care, digital tools and tech to everyone who could benefit would be worth an estimated:

- £10 billion to the NHS in saved costs
- £18 billion to the economy

From cancer, cardiovascular disease and dementia alone

Importantly, these are areas where care has been disrupted by Covid-19:

25% normal levels of urgent cancer referrals
Half normal levels of heart attack presentation at A&E
Huge spike in excess deaths amongst people with dementia

There is an opportunity in recovery here

And Covid-19 has shown it is possible to do it. Take primary care. There was a remarkably rapid move to digital services during Covid-19 - a move many have wanted to see for years.

What happened? We saw a mission based approach to the spread of innovation:

- Common purpose
- National guidance and funding (!!)
- Empowered local delivery of positive change

This is what we need to see permanently embedded in healthcare going forward.