Policy paper

Investing in UK health and life sciences

Overviews how the government will ensure the UK is a world class centre for development, manufacture and adoption of medical innovations.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Investing in UK health and life sciences.

Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email enquiries@beis.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

Overview of how the government will ensure that the UK is a world class centre for discovery, development, manufacture and adoption of medical innovations. Explains how the government aims to join up life sciences in the UK, open up universities and business to more collaboration, to invest in the best British ideas at an early stage, to remove regulatory barriers, and open up the NHS to new innovations and new clinical trials.

For further information on the UK life sciences sector, see the Strategy for UK Life Sciences

Published 5 December 2011