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Developing and implementing the Health and Wellbeing Mission and Supporting Innovation Delivery Plan for Wales Innovates; the Welsh Government’s 2023 Innovation Strategy for Wales / THOMAS JAMES

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Innovation in and across healthcare is a significant challenge. The complexity of developed healthcare ecosystems, competing national priorities, funding challenges, changing social demographics, the impacts of both the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit make the innovation ambitions of Welsh Government,...

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Published: Swansea 2026
Institution: Swansea University
Degree level: Doctoral
Degree name: Ph.D
Supervisor: Rees, D., Dennehy, D., and Thomas, R.
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