Collaborating with innovators. Generating evidence. Commercialising HealthTech

Improving Emergency and 
Acute Care through HealthTech co-development

Improving Emergency and 
Acute Care through HealthTech co-development

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Partnerships to progress innovations that improve patient care and efficiency within the NHS

Partnerships to progress innovations that improve patient care and efficiency within the NHS

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Collaborating with innovators to bring new HealthTech to market

Collaborating with innovators to bring new HealthTech to market

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Our Vision

The NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Emergency and Acute Care transforms emergency care by driving the commercial development of health technologies (HealthTech). HealthTech informs clinical decision making, improves diagnosis and optimises treatments ensuring patients get the right care, in the right place, at the right time.

The HRC in Emergency and Acute Care will drive the progression of novel health technologies through the innovation pathway to patient benefit, working with innovators to co-develop technologies and generate the evidence required to achieve adoption in the health and care system at pace and scale. In doing this we will ensure the HealthTech we develop is sustainable and beneficial to all communities, to deliver equitable access to healthcare and ultimately improve public health and wellbeing for all.

Research Themes

Community Care

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Secondary Care

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Understanding the Problem

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Evaluating the Solution

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Industry and Innovators, work with us

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Our Impact

Avoiding antibiotic induced hearing loss in babies

One in 500 people carry a genetic variant which causes profound irreversible hearing loss when given gentamicin,…

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CONDOR – National COVID-19 testing platform

The Manchester-led COVID-19 National DiagnOstic Research and Evaluation (CONDOR) platform created a single, national route for evaluating…

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Pilot project to test feasibility of wearable technology in preventing the spread of infection facilitated by HRC

A pilot project at Wythenshawe Hospital has successfully simulated how infection outbreaks spread in hospital settings, and how wearable technology…

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