At the NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Emergency and Acute Care we are experienced in developing innovative HealthTech and are uniquely positioned to access clinical, academic, and patient expertise at Europe’s largest clinical and academic campus, to provide bespoke recommendations and project design to facilitate innovation development.
We do this through:
- Providing expert advice, linking with healthcare professionals, setting up ‘Key Opinion Leader’ panels.
- Understanding the scale of the healthcare problem a technology aims to address in terms of health and the population.
- Concept validation and identifying the ‘use case’ and care pathway that the novel technology will fit into.
- Regulatory guidance and strategy development.
- Establishment of project teams including clinical, patient, academic and regulatory partners as appropriate.
- Grant writing support, being a partner on a collaborative application.
- Project oversight and direction.
- Health economics – what is the benefit to patients, healthcare, and the economy?
- Patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE).
- Design, set up and running of clinical studies to establish diagnostic accuracy, clinical validation and clinical utility.
- Rapid set up and delivery of diagnostic accuracy studies. You can find out more in our VALIDATE case study.
- Identifying barriers to adoption and looking at implementation science and behaviour change.
- Signposting within the NHS, Greater Manchester research and innovation ecosystem, local and national NIHR infrastructure and HRC Network.
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If you are interested in working with us, please complete our enquiry form below. Find out further information on how you can contact us here.
Read more on how to optimise NIHR support for your HealthTech innovation on the NIHR website.