Businesses can express an interest in a share of up to £6 million to test the impact of ‘combinatorial’ innovations on the biggest health and care challenges.
Competition opens: Monday 26 February 2018
Competition closes: Tuesday 27 March 2018 12:00pm
Innovate UK is to invest up to £4.5 million on behalf of the Office for Life Sciences (OLS), a joint unit between the Department of Health and Social Care and the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. This is in projects that integrate new product and service innovations. These projects must produce significant health improvements at the same or less cost than existing practice.
An additional £1.5 million is available from NHS England. This is specifically for projects that integrate digital approaches to self-management education and support for people with type 2 diabetes.
This is the first stage of the competition and is calling for expressions of interest (EoI). By entering you state that you have a market-ready digital product and are willing to partner with an NHS organisation or partnership.
The EoI part of this competition has 2 strands. This is the business strand. The other strand is for NHS organisations or partnerships.
To apply you must be a business with a digital product that addresses a clearly defined health and care challenge that is in line with the national NHS and life sciences priorities.
If your proposal is selected, you will be invited to attend a collaboration workshop between 9 and 13 April 2018 where consortia will be formed. If you establish a consortium, you will be requested to submit a detailed application to the full Test Beds competition.