Benefits of Scotland’s involvement in the EIP - AHAThrough its engagement in the EIP- AHA, Scotland has a unique opportunity to:

• Improve outcomes for end users through the delivery of innovative products and services that respond to their needs; • Bring solutions to the market quickly and efficiently; • Engage political support and critical mass speed up innovation; • Collect evidence and share good practices in Europe; • Promote a “sharing and learning culture” in Europe; • Facilitate partnerships and engagement with national and regional health and care stakeholders across Europe; • Provide input to shape the future EU healthcare policy agenda; • Prepare stronger applications for funding at local, national and European funding; • Increase our ability to attract inward investment.

Outcomes for ScotlandAs we continue to build strong relationships through our involvement in EIP-AHA, Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs) are being developed with key stakeholders including the Basque, Catalan and Greek Health Ministries. The MOUs will detail the key areas of mutual interest upon which knowledge transfer and potential collaborative projects will be focussed.

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Further informationFor further information about Scotland’s involvement in EIP-AHA, please contact for:

A1 Alpana Mair Alpana.mair@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

A2 Ann Murray ann.murray@nhs.net

A3 Anne Hendry Anne.Hendry@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

B3 Donna Henderson Donna.Henderson@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk

C2 Donna Henderson Donna.Henderson@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk

D4 Irene Oldfather Irene.Oldfather@alliance-scotland.org.uk

Reference sites Janne Rasmussen Janne.Rasmussen@nhs24.scot.nhs.uk

Telehealth & Telecare

The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) aims to increase the average healthy lifespan in the EU by 2 years by 2020 by building a critical mass to change how health and social care is organised for older people across Europe.

A1 Improving prescriptions and adherence to treatment

A2 Better management of health: preventing falls

A3 Preventing functional decline & frailty

B3 Integrated care for chronic conditions, including telecare

C2 ICT solutions for independent living & active ageing

D4 Age-friendly cities and environments The main purpose of EIP-AHA is awareness raising and knowledge-sharing activities to produce a range of shared outputs, including a collection of good practices from across Europe, as well as the development of easy-to-use tools (toolkits, maturity models and policy recommendations) to support regions and organisations to address the active and healthy ageing agenda1.

Involvement of ScotlandScotland is highly active in all six EIP-AHA Action Groups with a privilege to lead the Action group B3 on Integrated care.

A1 Pharmaceutical care for long term conditions

A2 National falls programme

A3 Acute focus on frailty

B3 ICT enabled integrated health and social care

C2 Living it Up

D4 Dementia enabled communities

1 http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?section=active- healthy-ageing&pg=documents

Scottish representatives are drawn from relevant sectors and organisations from across Scotland - including the Scottish Centre for Telehealth and Telecare (SCTT), Joint Improvement Team, Scottish Government, and The ALLIANCE.

The role of Scottish stakeholders is to raise awareness within Europe of what we are working on in Scotland, as well as bringing the learning from other European partners back to Scotland. Our aim is to grow Scottish stakeholder involvement in EIP-AHA in the coming months.

Reference SitesIn addition to our involvement in the Action Groups, Scotland is an EIP- AHA Reference Site. Reference Sites provide the EIP with examples of comprehensive and innovation-based approaches to active and healthy ageing. They are coalitions of regions, cities, health providers and care organisations that are able to provide evidence of their impact on citizens and systems. Scotland is an official three-star EIP-AHA Reference Site and received one of the highest ratings among the 32 participating regions in Europe.

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What is EIP-AHA?The EIP-AHA is a voluntary cooperation of EU, regions, industry, research institutions and healthcare professionals to find innovative solutions that meet the needs of the ageing population by addressing a triple win.

How EIP-AHA works?Six themes have been identified at European level on which innovation in health and care should be concentrated in order to meet our societal challenges. For each theme, a specific Action Group has been formed by partners who are experts in the domain and that have committed themselves to implement concrete and innovative actions at local and regional level in the field of active and healthy ageing.

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