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Matthew Ford
Matthew
Ford
T.J. Hodgetts
T.J.
Hodgetts
David Williams
David
Williams
Innovation strategies for defence: the successful case of Defence Medical Services
Loughborough University
2017
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Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
2017-07-12 14:16:50
Journal contribution
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Innovation_strategies_for_defence_the_successful_case_of_Defence_Medical_Services/9566210
Over the past 20 years, the Defence Medical Services (DMS, the umbrella organisation for
medical provision within the British armed forces) has been innovating consistently and at
pace within the Ministry of Defence. The result of this sustained effort has led to progressive
improvement in the outcomes of the critically injured. Separately, it has also led to global
transformational innovation in support of the response to the Ebola epidemic in Sierra
Leone. Through planned and orchestrated interventions across the entire organisation, from
leadership to technology, medical practices to training and organisational design, the DMS
can legitimately claim to have achieved a ‘Revolution in Military Medical Affairs’. Matthew
Ford, Timothy Hodgetts and David Williams examine the innovation lifecycle within the DMS
as it defines its response to the challenges of the changing character of conflict and consider
the way defence medicine is an example to the wider military.