2025 NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellows  

The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) has revealed its 2025 cohort of Fellows.

As the NIA celebrates a decade of helping to drive innovation in the NHS, this year’s cohort aligns with the Government’s three priorities: supporting the transition from analogue to digital, sickness to prevention and hospital to home. 

The 28 new Fellows will benefit from the NIA’s tailored support, including expert guidance, peer support and access to a network of key stakeholders in healthcare, equipping them to scale their solutions and drive real-world impact. 

Funded by NHS England’s Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC) and delivered in partnership with the Health Innovation Network, the NIA provides intensive, tailored support to proven healthcare solutions, helping to accelerate their adoption and maximise their impact across the NHS. 

Professor Sir Stephen Powis, National Medical Director of NHS England and Chair of the NHS Innovation Accelerator said, “The future success of the NHS lies in harnessing innovation and adopting new ways of working to enable more efficient and best-practice healthcare delivery. Congratulations to the 28 innovators that make up this 2025 cohort – this Fellowship is a fantastic opportunity to develop, accelerate and deliver solutions to enhance our NHS and improve patient care and staff experience.” 

Zoe Wright, Founder and CEO of The Real Birth Company and NHS Innovation Accelerator Alumni said, “Being part of the NHS Innovation Accelerator has been an incredible experience – one that has provided invaluable insights and great connections with other innovators going through the same journey, as well as those within the system. More than anything though, over the past three years, the programme has given me a clearer understanding of navigating the complexities of healthcare adoption, while also delivering real results in supporting the acceleration of my solution into the NHS. To the new cohort, my advice is to embrace the network, stay resilient, and keep patient benefit at the heart of everything you do. This is a rare opportunity to drive real change – make the most of it!”
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2025 Fellows 

Nader Alaghband – Ampersand Health 

Ampersand Health is a behavioural health company focused on immunology and inflammation. The company helps patients with complex long-term conditions navigate the journey from diagnosis to long term remission, enabling more effective monitoring and escalation, and delivering efficiencies and improvements in outcomes through its integrated data platform. 

Rebecca Allam – PreActiv 

PreActiv optimises patients before surgery using technology to create individualised and adaptive prehabilitation programmes tailored to surgery date. By reducing complications and hospital stays, PreActiv offers a scalable, cost-effective solution aligned with NHS perioperative care goals. 

Nicholas Appelbaum – Touchdose 

Dosium are bridging the gap between medical knowledge and practice by embedding the power of the British National Formulary directly into frontline prescribing systems. By automating precise dosage calculations for every patient and condition, they’re shifting away from the clutter of alert pop-ups and the need for constant system configuration, helping prescribers “get it right, first time”. By demonstrating an 86% reduction in the odds of prescribing errors occurring, and cutting prescription times by 20%, Touchdose not only enhances safety but also standardises prescribing practices across healthcare settings. 

Dilsha Arawwawala – ShiftPartner 

ShiftPartner is tackling the healthcare workforce crisis with a research-driven, data-powered platform designed to empower healthcare organisations to build a flexible, skilled, and engaged workforce. ShiftPartner enables organisations to not just understand their workforce, but take proactive steps to deploy, develop, and retain talent more effectively – fuelling long-term workforce growth, boosting productivity, and enhancing staff retention. 

Greg Burch – The Digital Health Passport 

The Digital Health Passport (DHP) empowers young people and families to take control of asthma and epilepsy with evidence-based health coaching, personalised care planning, and support. Designed to reach those who need it most, particularly low-income families, the DHP engages users through social media, community initiatives, and NHS partnerships. By improving patient activation and asthma control, the DHP is not only enhancing health outcomes but also reducing NHS costs as it scales nationwide. 

Andrew Davies – Whitebox HD2 Range 

The Whitebox HD2 Range is a range of innovative all solid-state UV-C disinfection chambers for semi-critical medical devices based on the latest generation LED technology. The first such devices in the world to conform to the latest standard for high-level disinfection performance. Qualified and evidenced for multiple use-cases that provide automated disinfection, allowing re-use of many medical devices that have previously been single-use. 

Lucy Davies – Prostate Intelligence (Pi™) 

Prostate Intelligence™ (Pi™) is an AI and machine learning based software system designed to help radiologists detect and report prostate cancer on MRI scans. Pi™ aim to support the NHS to deliver the prostate cancer pathway faster and accurately, ensuring cancers are not missed on MRI. 

Angie Doshani – JanamApp 

JanamApp is a culturally sensitive, linguistically appropriate, evidence-based digital companion for pregnant and postnatal South Asian communities. Available in English and six South Asian languages, it aims to educate, empower, and reduce health inequalities by providing tailored, accessible information to support informed decision-making and improve maternal health outcomes. You can read more from Angie in this interview.  

Alex Fisher – WID-Easy Test 

Each year ~9,000 women across the UK are diagnosed with endometrial cancer but approximately 300,000 women are deemed to be at high risk. More than 90,000 of these women have to undergo painful, often complex and costly unnecessary procedures. The WID-Easy test, is a highly accurate triage test, that has shown to reduce unnecessary procedures by >90%, whilst not missing any additional cancers. 

Richard Howells – The Tribe Project 

The mission of The Tribe Project is to close gaps in care provision. The project’s work restores choice and control to individuals seeking care whilst offering an economically sustainable model for commissioners and wider health provision in the UK. 

Peter Huang – Healthtech-1 Automated Registrations 

Healthtech-1 Automated Registrations registers patients on the same day, with all the clinical coding. Admin staff can manage registrations from one place in the Healthtech-1 Hub, and Practice Managers can unlock analytics about their new patients. 

Carmelo Insalaco – Smart Triage 

Smart Triage is the UK’s only fully autonomous AI-powered triage and appointment booking system for GP practices. With real-time urgency assessment, red-flag detection, and support for planned and preventive care, Smart Triage optimises workflows, enhances patient access, and frees up GP capacity for those who need it most. 

Barri Morgan Jones – Strolll® AR 

Strolll® is a pioneering augmented reality (AR) digital therapeutic designed to transform neurological rehabilitation for Parkinson’s, stroke, and multiple sclerosis (MS). By integrating cutting-edge AR technology with evidence-based rehabilitation techniques, Strolll enhances mobility, balance, and engagement, making therapy more effective and accessible. With strong clinical validation, regulatory approvals, and seamless NHS integration, Strolll empowers healthcare providers to deliver data-driven, personalised rehabilitation that improves patient outcomes while offering cost-saving efficiencies to healthcare systems. 

Jonathan Knight – Compassly® 

Compassly is an innovative competency passport app that provides complete oversight and management of healthcare professionals’ clinical skills. This provides assurance that clinical teams have the right skills to care for patients, while recognising and motivating ongoing professional development. It saves vital clinical time on assessing clinical skills, and by enabling the transfer of skills across the NHS, it improves the standard of care alongside avoiding re-training. 

Jinghui (Helen) Liang – LabCycle 

Research and healthcare generate an enormous amount of plastic waste every year, and most of it ends up in landfills or incinerators. LabCycle’s decontamination solution transforms used plastics into high-quality materials, which the company uses to make new products for research and healthcare applications. LabCycle helps research and healthcare institutions reduce waste, lower costs, and meet sustainability goals, without compromising safety or efficiency. 

Dafydd Loughran – Concentric 

Concentric is a digital consent application, transforming healthcare’s consent and shared decision-making process by getting rid of paper consent forms. It is currently supporting over a million patients in 35+ NHS Trusts. 

Caroline McCallum – Verbo® 

Approximately 1.9 million children have communication difficulties that impact on life outcomes such as academic attainment, employment prospects and mental health. Timely access to speech and language support is vital to change this trajectory. Verbo aims to empower education staff to enhance the communication skills of all children and young people, by offering screening tools that generate personalised targets, a vast content library with interventions modelled by therapists and robust data reporting to ensure every child can maximise their potential. 

Valentina Milanova – Daye Diagnostic Tampon 

Daye’s Diagnostic Tampon for HPV screening is an at-home test that integrates cervical cancer screening into a familiar patient routine. It increases accessibility to vital health checks, improving early detection rates and reducing the burden on NHS cervical screening services. 

Tom Oakley – Bleepa® 

Bleepa®, an easy-to-use clinical collaboration platform, connects care settings with diagnostic and other data to drive better, faster, safer decisions that improve outcomes for patients. It streamlines patient pathways by linking different clinical systems together into a seamless view of the patient. 

Thomas Pearson-Jones – Virtual Nodule Clinic (VNC) 

Optellum’s Virtual Nodule Clinic (VNC) is an AI-enabled precision care platform focused on the early diagnosis and treatment optimisation of lung cancer. The solution uses CT images to identify, track and manage incidental pulmonary nodules, and Optellum’s unique lung cancer prediction score (LCP-AI) uses computer vision AI to provide a risk score, supporting clinicians to make optimal management decisions for patients, driving early diagnosis and improved patient outcomes. 

Dominic Pimenta – TORTUS AI 

TORTUS is an AI assistant for clinicians, combining state-of-the-art AI models with a clinical grade safety system. TORTUS listens to consultations, creates automated medical notes, letters and clinical codes, improving productivity, document quality and clinician and patient wellbeing. 

Emilė Radytė – Nettle™ 

Nettle is a non-invasive medical grade wearable device that transforms menstrual pain and mood symptom management through advanced neuromodulation technology. Nettle has been shown to deliver significant pain relief and mood improvement, with ongoing trials in endometriosis and PMDD. Designed for at-home use, this rechargeable, app-controlled device offers a simple, user-friendly solution for menstrual health. 

Melinda Rees – Psyomics Platform 

Psyomics Platform is a digital mental health tool that sits at the front door of adult secondary care community mental health services, supporting the intake, triage and assessment processes. 

Steve Roest – PocDoc 

PocDoc has developed innovative smartphone-based technology that enables clinical-grade screening at home, at work or in the community for cardio, metabolic and renal diseases. PocDoc’s flagship product, the ‘Healthy Heart Check’ delivers the equivalent of an NHS Health Check in 10 minutes, as opposed to 2 (or more) appointments in primary care. Patients can be connected in real-time to digital treatment pathways, results are shared back into the record and into the NHS app. The ‘Healthy Heart Check’ delivers a full cholesterol profile, BMI score, calculates heart age, and provides a ten-year risk assessment for heart attacks or strokes – all in under 10 minutes. 

Sashi Sangala – MyRenalCare 

MyRenalCare empowers individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease to self-manage their condition from home with remote support from Renal Specialists. This significantly increases capacity, allowing for more patients to be cared for at lower cost. 

Haris Shuaib – Newton’s Tree 

The NHS faces significant challenges in adopting and scaling AI solutions due to fragmented deployment, regulatory hurdles, and a lack of standardised evaluation and monitoring. Newton’s Tree provides a comprehensive AI deployment platform that enables NHS Trusts to seamlessly integrate multiple AI solutions into their clinical workflows, ensuring regulatory compliance and continuous performance monitoring. By reducing barriers to adoption and making AI more accessible, it helps the NHS harness the full potential of AI technologies to improve patient care and operational efficiency. 

Darren Sloof – AeroTitan & AeroSentinel 

AeroSentinel and AeroTitan are pioneering air quality and infection control solutions that help healthcare settings reduce infections, improve patient outcomes, and cut energy costs. AeroSentinel provides real-time data on ventilation, bioaerosol risks, and environmental conditions, while AeroTitan delivers advanced air purification and control all without disruption to hospital operations. Together, they enable smarter, safer, and more sustainable healthcare environments. 

Billy Webber – Boundless 

Boundless by XR Therapeutics is an immersive therapy tool that empowers mental health professionals to deliver more effective and efficient treatment. Clinically backed and used in NHS settings, it offers a safe, controlled environment to accelerate recovery. With scalable deployment, Boundless is transforming mental healthcare, actively meeting individual needs in real-world settings.