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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