Mohua Siddique, Senior Innovation Advisor at Health Innovation West of England, reflects on the recent Respiratory Innovation Showcase, an online event on 3 March hosted for the NHS in collaboration with our neighbouring health innovation networks in the South of England. Mohua discusses what the selected innovators achieved, what attendees gained from the event and what her team will be working to achieve as a result.
Our Discovery and Development team, who support innovators to ensure their healthcare products are adoption-ready, were delighted to collaborate on a Respiratory Innovation Showcase with health innovation networks across the South of England, including Oxford and Thames Valley, South West, Wessex, and Kent Surrey Sussex.
We targeted this event at ‘innovation adopters’ within NHS organisations to explore adoption-ready respiratory solutions. We defined innovation adopters as NHS staff, including secondary care clinicians, primary care teams, commissioners, nursing and support staff, procurement teams, community providers and directorate managers working in respiratory care.
Selecting the innovators
All innovators showcased during the event had received significant support from one of the health innovaiton networks involved, and they were either adoption-ready or nearing adoption readiness. We selected four innovators to take part – ArtiQ. A Clario Company, Tidal Sense, mymhealth and Sentinel Respiratory – which we aligned along the clinical pathway, moving from diagnosis, through to treatment and monitoring.
Innovating respiratory pathways
Mark Juniper, Medical Director at Health Innovation West of England and Consultant Respiratory Physician at Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, presented the case for transforming UK respiratory pathways, emphasising the burden respiratory disease has on the health and wealth of the UK, but also the huge opportunity in terms of transformation through innovation. He also spoke about the Respiratory Transformation Partnership, a national initiative developed by the Health Innovation Network, NHS England and the Office for Life Sciences, with industry partners, which is designed to drive whole pathway transformation in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care.
Each innovator then presented on the challenge they were addressing, the solution they had developed, the impact the solution would have on the clinical pathway, key benefits of the solution, what traction they had within the UK, any evidence they had generated, and the pathway for implementing the solution. They ended with an ask of the attendees, which included looking for new adoption sites, requests for clinical ambassadors and opportunities to develop real world evidence.
Attendees were given some time to reflect and ask questions after each innovator pitch, allowing for some really thoughtful questions and responses. We asked attendees to reflect on: What are the key challenges and ambitions for their area of work? Could this solution add value? What additional information did they need to know? What will their next steps be?
Brokering connections
During and after the event, attendees were asked to complete a short expression of interest so we could understand which innovators they might be interested in exploring further. We are now following up and brokering connections with the relevant innovators to explore piloting or adoption opportunities.
If you were unable to attend the showcase, you can catch up on the recording here. If you attended the event, but didn’t complete the expression of interest, or are catching up after the event, please do get in touch with us at healthinnowest.innovation@nhs.net. We would be happy to have a chat to better understand what you’re looking for and to connect you to the innovators.
Posted on March 17, 2026 by Mohua Siddique, Senior Innovation Advisor
