NHS–Industry Partnerships
Why NHS–Industry Partnerships Are Set to Grow in 2025
The NHS is facing unprecedented capacity challenges, driven by underfunding in primary care, an ageing workforce, growing cases of chronic illnesses, and increasingly complex patient needs and medicines.
Innovation is no longer optional—it’s essential. Collaborative working between life sciences and the NHS is becoming a key strategy to tackle these challenges. With frameworks from the ABPI, NHS Confederation, and the King’s Fund offering clear guidelines, partnerships now offer a triple win—for patients, the NHS, and industry.
The data speaks for itself:
- Transfer of value investments in collaborative working programmes rose from £7.1m in 2021 to £24.9m in 2023. Trends suggest continued growth in 2025 and beyond.
- We see life sciences companies expanding Market Access and Healthcare Partnership teams and NHS Trusts hiring specialists to drive such initiatives. With national-scale projects in sight, now is the time to leverage partnerships that create lasting efficiencies in patient care.
Practical programmes designed by clinicians
Our in-house team of practising NHS clinicians ensures that every programme we develop is relevant and achievable. The goal is simple—drive patient access to improve health outcomes.
We bring real-world expertise to the table, designing and delivering programmes that leave a sustainable legacy. Through collaboration, we innovate patient pathways that are efficient, scalable and address inequalities in care, while reducing the burden on overstretched systems.
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Insight-driven delivery with Medacy
With our sister company, Medacy, we deliver pharmacist-led clinical programs directly into NHS settings. This includes over 500,000 patient interactions annually across a network of 100+ primary care networks (PCNs), practices, and Trusts. These on-the-ground insights mean we deliver sustainable NHS–Industry Partnerships that work from day one, combining practicality with rapid execution.
Comprehensive, end-to-end support
Whether you're developing a local pilot project or launching a large-scale national collaboration, CHASE covers every aspect of NHS collaborative working to drive results.
- Innovative ideas for programmes to address patient and NHS needs
- Feasibility assessments
- Comprehensive project scoping, costing, and timelines
- Liaison with NHS organisations, clinical practices, and third-party suppliers
- Full project planning and documentation including website, signatory and contracts
- Patient feasibility studies
- Recruitment and training of specialist staff, including nurses, pharmacists and project managers
- Integration into primary and secondary care
- Streamlined IT and clinical system integration
- Defining success metrics with NHS stakeholders
- Patient recall and response monitoring
- Patient reviews and home visits
- Secondary care consultant support to strengthen GP services
- Linking primary and secondary care to enhance patient experiences
- Producing clinical audit results to measure and optimise success
- Comprehensive project reports to evaluate impact and facilitate learning for future initiatives
Leave a legacy with CHASE
Trusted clinical expertise
- Our team includes NHS clinical leaders who bring frontline experience and deliver partnership solutions grounded in practical, actionable strategies.
Insight-driven programmes
- We focus on innovation that prioritises sustainable change. Every project is designed to embed long-term skills and ensure ongoing service provision.
Full-service delivery
- Our end-to-end approach streamlines projects from concept to delivery, allowing your stakeholders to focus on core objectives while we handle the rest.
Your partners in NHS Partnership Working
Get in touch with our experienced team to discuss sustainable, practical NHS Partnership Working solutions.
Case Study: Joint working - a global collaboration
A leading pharma company commissioned CHASE to implement and deliver a joint working project with leading UK hospital sites and a US based digital health company; we delivered the joint working project across the UK.