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Building better partnerships between industry & the NHS, & across the life sciences sector
Working together: a handbook for industry and patient organisation partnerships 2025
A resource for patient organisations and companies to enable successful partnerships for patients.
Accelerating transformation: at a glance
This summary provides an overview of guidance to support partnership working. It has been developed in collaboration with NHS and industry leaders. The full guidance pack can be accessed on the NHS Confederation website.
Accelerating transformation: How to develop effective NHS-industry partnerships
The NHS Confederation and the ABPI have created new guidance on how to create effective NHS-industry partnerships. It was created with the expertise of more than 30 NHS and industry leaders.
NHS-Industry Partnership Case Studies Library
Explore examples of how collaboration and partnership can support delivery of NHS priorities and enable the ‘triple win’ - of improved patient outcomes, more efficient use of NHS resources and evidence of impact for industry – as well as replication and scaling across the NHS.
Charity-Industry Partnership Case Study Library
The ABPI's charity-industry partnership case study library has been developed to support building greater awareness and understanding of partnerships.
The library hosts a collection of member case studies that showcase examples of the impact working together can achieve. This library will be expanded further with additional case studies as part of the ABPI's ongoing commitment to patient and public Involvement.
Patient involvement
The ABPI want to lead the way in ensuring patient engagement is integral to our work. To support this ambition, we work with patient organisations and ABPI members to identify the priorities we should focus on.
ABPI Patient Advisory Council
Council members provide the Association’s Board and its senior team with meaningful insights into the patient experience, to inform strategy, policy priorities and work.
Patient & public involvement
ABPI Patient Engagement Strategy
Our strategy sets out how the ABPI will deliver our commitments and make sure that patient engagement is consistently at the heart of our work.
Patient and public involvement in research
Involving the public and patients as equal partners in the discovery and development of medicines is vital. The ABPI works with patient organisations and our members to improve how this is done.
Academic collaboration
Academic collaboration
A quarter of a million people are employed in the UK’s life science sector today. We need a continuous supply of specialists to stay competitive, meet the demands of an evolving, technology-based world and pioneer the next wave of medicines and vaccines.
Links between industry & academia
The UK is recognised worldwide as a leader in medical research and innovation, and the foundations for collaborations between industry and academia in the UK are exceptionally strong.