Well being and social care innovators who consider they’ve confirmed options to assist the NHS, have till 22 October 2023 to use to hitch the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) programme for the 2024 consumption.
Chaired by Professor Sir Stephen Powis, nationwide medical director of NHS England, the accelerator programme has been designed to assist entrepreneurs in scaling their options into and throughout the NHS – together with these improvements that embrace digital well being know-how.
The recruitment name for 2024 focuses on improvements that may tackle well being inequality challenges throughout the themes highlighted within the NHS England Core20PLUS5, in addition to options that may particularly assist NHS England-centred carbon discount options.
Themes embrace: maternity, psychological well being for adults, kids and younger folks, most cancers for grownup sufferers, respiratory illness and bronchial asthma, hypertension and heart problems; diabetes in kids and younger folks, epilepsy in kids and younger folks, oral well being in kids and younger folks.
Konrad Dobschuetz, NHS Innovation Accelerator nationwide director, mentioned: “On the NIA, our core perception is that nobody can clear up well being and social care’s greatest challenges alone. That’s why we champion a collaborative and mutually supportive method to innovation that makes an affect.
“The NIA has a robust monitor document of supporting digital well being innovators to scale their improvements, make beneficial connections and develop important expertise to achieve maturity.
“Digital well being improvements usually make up between 1 / 4 and a 3rd of whole functions to the accelerator, and are growing. We’ve a number of digital well being specialists inside this years’ mentor cohort who’re notably well-placed to ship focused assist.”
Profitable candidates to the NIA will profit from three years of targeted assist, adopted by life-long entry to the celebrated alumni community and peer neighborhood.
The bespoke programme of assist contains working with NICE, NHS England, the Tutorial Well being Science Community, the MHRA and trade organisations. They’ll acquire entry to a gaggle of mentors boasting in depth understanding of key well being and social care challenges. These mentors embrace digital well being specialists like Hassan Chaudhury, Amir Hashmi, Harpreet Sood and Jim McDonald in addition to others together with Adrian Downing, Archna Sharma and Pam Garside.
The training programme delivers perception into matters such because the NHS procurement course of and pathway wants, and is tailor-made to particular person fellow’s necessities and wishes.
The NHS Innovation Accelerator at present helps 34 NIA Fellows and their improvements, with an extra 63 alumni. These alumni embrace the creator of pores and skin most cancers melanoma monitoring app, SkinVision, the founder and CEO of Sufferers Know Greatest and the chief government of ORCHA.
To this point, members have collectively launched their options throughout 3,171 NHS websites and gained over 221 awards. This yr’s consumption noticed 17 new Fellows be part of – the biggest cohort to this point.
Purposes are open till 22 October 2023.
