Join us on 11 and 12 June in Manchester to find out how the Health Innovation Network is improving health and driving wealth through health innovation.
This year we’ll be joined on our stand by 18 Network-supported innovators, showcasing innovations which are helping to deliver the Government’s three shifts for the NHS and solve some of the health and care sector’s biggest challenges. We are proud to be sponsoring this year’s Innovation Theatre, with a packed agenda of sessions exploring how innovation can transform lives, whilst driving economic growth.
Whether you work in the NHS and have a challenge which you need help to solve, or are an innovator with a solution ready to scale, we can help.
Here’s what we’ll be offering on our stand:
We’ll be joined by 18 innovators who are currently being supported by the health innovation networks. Joining us this year will be:
PocDoc
PocDoc is digital health platform that can detect people who have markers that might indicate cardiovascular disease (CVD), such as heart attacks and strokes, quicker, and in non-clinical settings, enabling them to be referred for treatment.
Daye
Daye is the leading women’s health platform addressing the most prevalent, yet often overlooked health conditions, from period and pelvic pain to cervical cancer prevention. 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.
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.
Lifelight
Lifelight is the world’s first and only clinical grade contactless vital signs provider for blood pressure, pulse and respiration. Lifelight’s game changing technology allows mobile devices to estimate blood pressure and pulse, by simply looking into the device’s built-in camera for 40 seconds.
Avegen
Avegen provides digital health solutions that improve outpatient management, enabling end to end digitisation of care pathways, resulting in streamlined clinical workflows, reduced costs and improved operational efficiency.
OPCI
Founded by two NHS surgeons looking for new ways to improve care for their patients, OPCI develops and implements clinical intelligence software in collaboration with clinicians and healthcare professionals
MySunrise
MySunrise empowers patients and their families to navigate their cancer treatment pathway, ensuring they have the information they need and aiming to reduce some of the anxiety surrounding this, giving patients more control.
getUBetter
getUBetter is an evidence-based, digital self-management support platform for all common musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions and women’s pelvic health, that helps integrated care systems to provide digital-self-management support across the whole care pathway. It is now available across 17 integrated care systems (ICSs) to a total eligible population of over 20 million people.
Stroll
Strolll® is a pioneering augmented reality (AR) digital therapeutic designed to transform neurological rehabilitation for Parkinson’s, stroke, and multiple sclerosis (MS).
Smart Respiratory
Smart Asthma offers improved efficiency and increased adherence, with the potential to help reduce waiting times (RTT) and hospital admissions.
DemDx
DemDx has developed an AI digital Clinical Reasoning Platform which supports primary care frontline clinicians and community pharmacists in their clinical assessments, enabling them to deliver safer, faster and more consistent consultations.
SiSU Health
SiSU Health creates healthy communities through the digital, medical grade SiSU Health Station and the SiSU Health app. Getting a digital health check is as easy as buying a loaf of bread, with self-service SiSU Health Stations in places where people live their lives.
NeuroVirt
NeuroVirt’s XR solution transforms rehabilitation with engaging therapy, precise compensation control, and accurate remote monitoring —empowering physiotherapists to deliver smarter, data-driven care.
TidalSense
The N-Tidal Diagnose medical device delivers quick, accurate, AI powered point-of-care COPD diagnosis. It takes ten minutes to train any healthcare professional to administer the test, making it feasible to deploy rapidly, at scale, across a range of healthcare settings including GP practices, community pharmacies, Community Diagnostic Centres.
My Clinical Outcomes
My Clinical Outcomes (MCO) is a patient and clinician-facing web-platform that automates the collection and analysis of Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMs) in routine clinical practice. MCO is in more 200 hospitals, with more than 180,000 patients registered.
CareLoop
CareLoop Health is transforming care for people living with severe mental illness. A NICE (EVA) approved, regulated medical device, the CareLoop digital platform delivers improved symptom management and relapse prevention in psychosis.
Meaningful Measures
Meaningful Measures offers person-centred evaluation, audit and research solutions. Its’ mission is to enable people’s own voices to shape the understanding and improvement of health and wellbeing services around the world.
Experts from across the 15 local health innovation networks will be on hand to provide advice and support for anyone looking to understand more about how to develop, build and scale innovations within the NHS.
If you work in the NHS and have a challenge which innovation could help to tackle, or have an innovation you need support with, we can help.
We can offer advice on any aspect of health innovation including:
- Navigating the NHS
- How to access funding
- Real-world evidence generation
- Scaling-up and building collaborations
- Our innovation pipeline
Delegates can visit our stand on the day to book a slot with one of our experts.
We’ll also be joined by our industry partners:
Life Sciences Hub Wales
Life Sciences Hub Wales supports collaboration between innovators, NHS Wales, social care and academia accelerating the development and adoption of innovation. It is also an NHS Innovation Service partner, mentioned below.
Accelerated Access Collaborative (AAC)
The Accelerated Access Collaborative is ran by NHS England and brings together industry, government, regulators, patients and the NHS to remove barriers and accelerate the introduction of treatments and diagnostics which can transform care. The AAC supports all types of innovations: medicines, diagnostics, devices, digital products, pathway changes and new workforce models.
Representatives from AAC programmes, the NHS Innovation Service, the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA), the NHS Clinical Entrepreneurs Programme (CEP) and The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare will be on hand.
This year we’re excited to be hosting the Innovation Theatre. We’ll be hosting a series of sessions in the theatre, plus experts from across the Network will taking part in various discussions and panels across the two days.
Here’s where you can find us:
Wednesday 11 June
InHIP: power of community care and community partnerships in delivering better care for all
The Innovation for Healthcare Inequalities Programme (InHIP) is a partnership initiated in 2022 between NHS England and the Health Innovation Network, which sought to improve access to NICE-recommended technologies for underserved communities using the Core20PLUS5 framework.
This session will share learnings from case studies and discuss the recommendations from our report: Forging a More Equitable Healthy Future Through Policy and Partnership: Tackling Health Inequalities Through Innovation.
Time: 9:30 AM
Location: Innovation theatre
Reimagining dementia pathways: Collaboration between the NHS, academia & industry
This session will outline how partnerships between the NHS, industry and academia are the catalyst needed to drive transformative change in dementia care. By harnessing the collective expertise and resources of these sectors, we can optimise diagnosis and care pathways, tackle health inequalities and prepare the NHS for the integration of pioneering new therapies.
Time: 9.30am
Location: Life sciences and research theatre
No place left behind: building lasting partnerships for health and prosperity
Ill health drives hundreds and thousands of people out of the workforce each year. Governments cannot spur growth without putting health at the heart of its plans, nor can the NHS address health inequalities alone. Only through partnerships can we support all individuals to live healthier and more prosperous lives. This panel will explore how partnerships can be built to support good employment, tackle child poverty and build a better future for all.
Time: 12:00 PM
Location: Charter 1 – main stage
Optimising and integrating patient discharge at a system level in north-west London
In 2024, NHS North West London Integrated Care Board celebrated a major milestone in our system-wide goal to optimise patient discharge from hospitals. This session will explore the implementation and impact of the Optimised Patient Tracking and Intelligent Choices Application (OPTICA) platform.
Time: 12:15 PM
Location: Revolution in AI theatre
Unlocking AI’s potential: driving change, efficiency, and innovation in healthcare
This session explores a problem-first approach to AI adoption, rooted in real-world healthcare needs. Drawing on two new reports from UCLPartners and South London Health Innovation Network, in collaboration with The Health Foundation, the panel will share insights from AI use across London and national examples of non-clinical AI tackling system-wide challenges.
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: Revolution in AI theatre
Connecting innovation, research and improvement across an integrated care system
In Humber and North Yorkshire, the number of years a person lives in good health is less than the national average, with life expectancy in Hull among the lowest ten for local authorities in England. This session will share successes and challenges that come from working in a complex system, and will demonstrate the impact and benefits of bringing innovation, research and improvement together across an ICS.
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: Life sciences and research theatre
Can the NHS innovate with SMEs to transform and grow the economy?
This session will explore how the NHS can harness the agility and creativity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to enhance digital and wider technological transformation and UK economic growth.
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: Innovation theatre
CVDACTION: enabling primary care to transform CV prevention
CVDACTION is a smart data tool that make it much easier for GPs to spot and treat patients who are at high risk of heart attack and stroke, providing data that helps with capacity, prioritisation, multimorbidity and inequalities, and data that is easy to action. This session will share the outcomes from the CVDACTION programme and critical learning.
Time: 1:45 PM
Location: AI innovation theatre
Reimagining care: cross-sector innovation in rural and coastal communities
Rural and coastal communities face unique challenges that impact on health and care delivery. A shift towards community-based support is essential, where local networks and digital technologies empower older people to remain independent at home. The South West Peninsula is trialling new approaches to testing and translating these technologies, then adopting and spreading them.
Time: 2.45PM
Location: Innovation theatre
Community breast pain clinics: a transformation pathway
Breast pain is not a symptom of breast cancer, yet nationally 20 per cent of two-week wait (2WW) breast referrals are breast pain alone. The East Midlands Breast Pain Pathway improves patient experience and frees capacity in secondary care diagnostic breast clinics, managing patients with breast pain only in a community setting. This session will focus on highlighting the benefits of community-led care of these patients for both the patient and the provider.
Time: 2:45 PM
Location: Charter 5
Addressing ethnic inequalities in maternal and neonatal health: lessons from anti-racism quality improvement
In this session, colleagues from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and NHS Race and Health Observatory (RHO) will share learning from a pilot Learning and Action Network (LAN).
Time: 4:15 PM
Location: Health inequalities theatre
Thursday 12 June
Maternity and neonatal pre-term optimisation case study
This presentation will summarise the maternity and neonatal pre-term optimisation the programme, which provided external coaching for four maternity and neonatal teams in the south of England based on culture, behaviours and outcomes.
Time: 9:30AM
Location: Innovation theatre
Creating health and wealth: How innovation can deliver growth and the 10 Year health plan
Richard Stubbs, Chair of the Health Innovation Network in discussion with Richard Torbett MBE, CEO of the ABPI and Peter Ellingworth, CEO of the ABHI on how industry partnerships can deliver economic growth and will be central to delivering the 10 year health plan and the life sector plan.
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Innovation theatre
Driving Primary Care Innovation: Co-designed Digital Solutions
Gain insights from case studies, including how GP practices have ended the 8am phone rush using Rapid Health Smart Triage, and how a GP and practice manager have worked with innovators to adapt digital solutions to meet their practice’s needs and provide improved patient benefits.
Time: 12:15 PM
Location: AI innovation theatre
Size of the Innovation Prize: where to focus transformation to deliver growth
This session will share insights gained into the potential value of health innovation to deliver an ‘NHS fit for the future’ and ‘kick start the economy’ through improved NHS productivity, reduced economic inactivity and increased growth for innovative healthcare businesses.
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: Innovation theatre
How to implement a virtual ward to manage acute atrial fibrillation
Join this interactive session to get involved in the future development of atrial fibrillation virtual wards. Learn how Glenfield Hospital established a virtual ward, the development of the network to four different geographical locations with different populations, and a blueprint was established to roll it out to the NHS and wider stakeholders
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: Charter 2
Women’s Health – what innovation can be achieved within a system working approach?
The women’s health strategy for England sets out to improve how the health and care system listens to women. Although women in the UK live longer on average than men, the evidence shows they spend a greater proportion of their lives in ill health or disability. This session will cover how the Dorset integrated care system has taken a system-wde approach to this work.
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: AI innovation theatre
Connecting with Young People Digitally through Innovation
This joint session with Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS), YMCA DownsLink and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent Surrey and Sussex will focus on best practice for co-designing innovations that target children and young people. We have developed a checklist to provide step-by-step support to innovators working in this space.
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Innovation theatre
Transforming urgent and emergency care: insights from AI-powered prevention
This session will explore AI for urgent emergency care, a pioneering NHS England collaboration between UCLPartners, NHS North East London Integrated Care System, and Health Navigator that leverages AI to identify individuals at risk of health deterioration and offers them personalised, nurse-led clinical coaching to prevent crises before they occur.
Time: 3:15 PM
Location: Revolution in AI theatre
Secure Data Environment: transforming health planning and research in Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester’s Secure Data Environment (GM SDE) is designed to unlock the potential of health data to support advanced research and development in health and care. This session will draw on case studies, focusing on the use of advanced data analytics to detect early signs of diabetes and heart failure, pre-emptive genetic testing to optimise medication use across Greater Manchester, and managing long-term cancer survivors and optimising lung cancer screening for underserved communities.
Time: 3:15 PM
Location: Life sciences and research theatre
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