Notice: Life Sciences Healthcare Goals

The Healthcare Goals programme brings together industry, academia, the third sector and the NHS to tackle healthcare challenges such as dementia, cancer, mental health, obesity and addiction.

The Healthcare Goals are intended to apply a Vaccine Taskforce-type approach by bringing together industry, academia, the third sector and the NHS to collaborate to make progress in these disease areas, by advancing early disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and developing breakthrough products and technologies to save lives.

In 2022, we launched Healthcare Goals in the disease areas of dementia, cancer, mental health, obesity and addiction. In 2023, we appointed world-leading experts to be the Chairs of the Healthcare Goals to shape the direction and drive progress.

A new page has been created to set out the Healthcare Goals programme's objectives and KPIs, along with minor updates made to the Dementia and Cancer Goals webpages.

Updates on the progress of the Cancer, Mental Health and Addiction Healthcare Goals.

Updates on progress of the Healthcare Goals Programme's and further links shared.

Updates on the progress of the delivery of the Addiction, Obesity and Dame Barbara Windsor Dementia Goals programmes.

Updated to reflect updates in delivery of the Addiction, Mental Health, Dementia and Obesity Healthcare Goals programmes.

Changes have been made to: update the latest objectives for each of the programmes, update the Mental Health Goals Chairs biographies, update on a new competition in the Obesity Healthcare Goals programme, update on the Cancer Goals contributing £5 million towards the second round of Innovate UK’s Advancing Precision Medicine funding competition, and make references to the recently published 10 Year Health Plan and Life Sciences Sector Plan.

We have updated information including links on the webpages and have removed the information around funding on the main healthcare goals webpage.