Spreading innovation,improving health,
generating economic growth
Our aims and objectives
• To spread innovation at pace and scale across NHS.
• Act as an agent of change by creating collaborations between higher education, NHS, industry, third sector, patients and public.
• Secure investment and boost the economy through sector growth and improved health
• Improve equality of access to innovation.
Supporting the spread of innovation to:• Improve health outcomes• Increase the value for £ spent• Increase economic growth• Provide equal access to innovation• Provide a relentless focus on innovation • Develop networks and collaborations• Highlight significant opportunities• Bring multiple funding streams into the region
Supporting our partnersto improve health through
innovation
Ambition for NWC• Promoting our region as an attractive place to live and work• For industry: Creating an environment to attract and
maintain world class companies• For academia: Managing talent and the talent pipeline in
the short and long term• For the NHS: Improving outcomes for people, patients and
staff• Improving health and wealth for all
Vision: the NWC will be the preferred location for research, clinical trials, collaboration and inward investment in the healthcare sector
Supporting NHS TrustsAlder Hey Children’s Hospital: Pump-prime funding into Institute in the Park and Innovation Centre helping to leverage over £13m additional investment
Sensor City University Enterprise Zone
Hartree High Performance Computing
The UK’s largest supercomputing facility dedicated to industrial applications.
Supporting economic growth
Business ConnectSupporting health and care businesses
• Actively engaged with 543 companies• Intensive support provided to 81 companies• Jobs safeguarded - 50• Jobs created - 56• New products or services introduced – 76• NHS tenders awarded - 4• Further investment leveraged - £6m
£500k funding for technologiesto pump prime adoption
Innovations with Impact competition, funding technologies to support care
Presentation 1
NHS ProcurementChallenge the stated requirements…
Start up company with innovation in latex free surgical gloves
•Trusts procure off established supplier frameworks but positive evaluations by theatre teams•Two tenders published
– Minimum turnover of £1m– Supply full range of products (including latex)
•Supported to challenge both, invited to apply for both, awarded both•Later in the year awarded NHS SC national contract•Triggered £0.5m VC investment•Secured 3 jobs, now recruiting 6 more
Some SBRI Companies you may have heard of….
U-Motif Parkinson's Tracker
Case study: The PolyPhotonix bio-photonic research and development company has developed a light therapy sleep mask costs £250 for 12 weeks’ treatment.
• Diabetes = most common cause of preventable adult blindness
• UK NHS Cost £1bn a year. • Traditional treatment costs ~£10,000 pppe
• Noctura 400 is an OLED based, light therapy sleep mask CE certified for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy
• £1,458,158 awarded• Estimated savings at £1 billion per annum• Product available now• 60 employees directly created as a result of SBRI
funding. • Approximately £2 million of additional investment has
also been secured by the company
“We know that disability in children can have a permanent effect on their life skills in adulthood. With six percent of children in the UK living with disability, there is a high need for innovations that address their health and care needs, so they can live life to the full. This will enhance their wellbeing and confidence but, over the longer term, will enable them to take advantage of greater opportunities as they move towards and through adulthood.”
“When a person’s health needs are complex they often need to interact with different departments and different care processes which can feel like they are bouncing around the system. This isn’t good for patients and it isn’t efficient for the NHS, as it often results in duplication, waste and other inefficiencies. So we are looking for companies with innovations that can help us to improve efficiencies through better use of resources, reduced wastage and delays, and improved processes. This will save money for the NHS but, crucially, will improve the experience and outcomes for patients.”
28 July Deadline!
UOL Chromatic Cameras and
Robots
JMU Apps and AR/Avatars vs Dutch eHealth
cluster
U3AMeaningful Activity-
Employment-Living Lab
ALD-Tech-Employment
Idea
UOL (UK)
Eindhoven University (Dutch)
JMU (UK)
Department of Health Science and Technology Aalborg University
(Denmark)
Academic Partners
LCR ICT or LiverpoolRobosoft (France)
SMEs/3rd Sector/LA/CCG
U3ASefton?or Warrington?
Philips
Red NinjaRescon
U3A
LCR ICT or LiverpoolPhilips
SC1-PM-15-2017:
Personalised coaching for
well-being and care of people
as they age
SC1-PM-15-2017:
Personalised coaching for
well-being and care of people
as they age
CO-CREATION-04-2017:
Applied co-creation to
deliver public services
CO-CREATION-04-2017:
Applied co-creation to
deliver public services
Fund
Supporting andspreading innovation
Innovation Scouts• 50 Champions of change, learning from innovation leaders • Creating a culture of innovation; part of the AHSN • Network for co-creating new technologies and systems
Events to support collaborationEcosystemSupporting mobile health and electronic health, connecting businesses, academia, NHS and local authorities
Academic summitsBringing together academics from all NWC learning and research institutions
Hackathons•Alder Hey with MIT – connecting businesses with health professionals to ‘hack’ solutions•Developed internal capability – trained by MIT•Hacking Care Homes for NHS England – July 2016
Awards•Research and Innovation Awards•Bionow, Medilink, Excellence in Supply, business awards
European Projects
2525
European Reach
Menno KokInterim CLC Director Belgium/Netherlands
UK/Ireland – core partners
France – core partnersSpain – core partners
Belgium/NL – core partners
InnoStars
Germany – core partners
Scandinavia – core partners
One of the barriers to scaling up assisted living technology (ALTs) is the shortfall of training opportunities for practitioners along withthe lack of a recognised qualification for competence in their suitability and use.
As a result, awareness of assistive living technologies remains low amongst managers and consequently frontline staff and those who need them
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