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Mission & Vision

The Medicines Optimisation Innovation Centre will provide a focus for developing a systematic approach to finding and testing solutions for the HSC and will have the following functions:

• Project managing an innovation programme of research and development projects
• Developing, testing and evaluating solutions to pre-commissioning stage
• Supporting successful translation into HSC service delivery and commissioning
• Helping projects to access and utilise available funding streams
• Providing a regional centre of expertise for research and service development in medicines optimisation and post-implementation review of service delivery
• Building local expertise and competence in developing and translating research into practice
• Developing a hosting programme and also expediting knowledge transfer to other to other countries
• Facilitating a continuous cycle of quality improvement within the HSC in the area of medicines optimisation.

The centre will also have wider benefits, combining pharmaceutical and R&D skills with technology and business acumen to:

• Provide evidence-based solutions for medicines optimisation which could be developed commercially, marketed and sold to other countries with the HSC as a beneficiary
• Promote NI as a leading area for medicines optimisation R&D and strengthen NI’s four star EU reference status bid
• Attract inward investment into a NI Medicines Optimisation Innovation Fund/Programme
• Increase collaborative working with older established research networks in the UK, Europe and internationally

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