Over 700 life sciences organisations employ more than 37,000 people, making Scotland one of the largest life sciences clusters in Europe. Scotland is home to a thriving biocluster, providing the ideal environment for innovation and company growth with key sites including Edinburgh BioQuarter, Inverness Campus and BioDundee. There are also innovation centres covering: stratified medicine, sensors, digital health, industrial biotechnology and aquaculture. Scotland’s unified healthcare provider, the NHS, works closely with industry and academia, supported by the dedicated cross-party organisation, LISAB. The NHS provides co-ordinated access to clinical investigators and patients through single point of contact for industry, accessible clinical research support infrastructures, and streamlined and timely clinical trial approvals.