Collaborating with innovators. Generating evidence. Commercialising HealthTech
Our Vision
The NIHR HealthTech Research Centre: 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: 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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Restoring patients’ voices during critical care through innovative tracheostomy technology
For patients recovering from critical illness, having a tracheostomy can be lifesaving. It’s a procedure where a hole is…
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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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VALIDATE – Programme of Research
Programmes of research enable multiple clinical studies that test different procedures, interventions, or technologies, to be carried…
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