Unmet needs - how are these managed in the development of new healthcare technology.

What is it about?

This paper explains the value and importance of investing time in fully exploring unmet needs in order to ensure development of solutions which are fully fit for purpose.

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Why is it important?

All too often in current organisational and funding processes, the initial steps of exploring unmet needs are rushed in order to commence work on solution building. This can lead to development of solutions which are only partially fit for purpose, wasting public resource and frustrating patient and public collaboration. We suggest a model (developed and used by NIHR Devices for Dignity MTC) of unmet need processing which we feel is fundamental to successful med tech development.