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10 tips for securing vital funding to develop your healthcare product or service

Our third webinar in our popular Ask the Expert series focused on investment readiness, with four experts sharing their insights into how healthtech innovators can best secure vital funding to develop their healthcare products and services. Here are some of their top hints and tips for success… 1. Tap into the expertise available in the…

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Trial of AI-based optimisation technology demonstrates opportunities for the domiciliary care sector to transform provision of homecare

A three-year programme to trial the use of optimisation technology in domiciliary care has identified a number of opportunities for local authorities and care providers to improve the planning of homecare, offering potentially significant benefits for care workers, service users and the social care sector as a whole. Domiciliary care (or homecare) is provided at…

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Patients to benefit from innovations that improve care and accelerate a greener NHS

Two innovators who have been supported by Health Innovation West of England have won funding from SBRI Healthcare, an Accelerated Access Collaborative initiative run in partnership with the Greener NHS programme and the Health Innovation Network to help improve patient care and save money, whilst also making the NHS greener. LabCycle, a circular plastic consumables…

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Evidence into Practice 2024 launched – applications open 22 April and close 31 May

Following on from the success of our previous calls, we are once again providing comprehensive free support to spread evidence-based innovations that improve the health of people in the West of England with the launch of Evidence into Practice 2024. The programme is open to anyone in the West of England working to improve the…

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New initiative launches to spark innovations in health and care services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire

An exciting new community of innovation pioneers and change-makers is forming to reimagine local health and care services as part of the Innovate Healthier Together programme. Health Innovation West of England, in partnership with NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Integrated Care Board (ICB), has launched the new Innovate Healthier Together Fellowship. The…

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Supporting the introduction of a digital solution offering vital support for local people with COPD

Thousands of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are able to benefit from a new digital scheme launched to provide more support at home. Living Well with COPD has been launched by Healthier Together, the Integrated Care System in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, to support people with COPD.  Health Innovation West of…

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