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21/10/2013

SBRI Healthcare awards funding for healthcare innovation

Eight companies have been awarded funding to develop mental health and end of life innovations, SBRI Healthcare has announced. The competition provides £5m over two phases to demonstrate technical feasibility of companies’ proposed concepts. Those with the best value solutions will...

25/01/2017

NHS targets £700k investment to relieve acute care pressures

The NHS England initiative SBRI Healthcare (the Small Business Research Initiative for Healthcare) has given eight companies £700,000 to develop innovations to increase efficiency and relieve pressure in NHS acute care settings. The successful companies will be focusing on solutions that...

17/01/2017

A&E departments to benefit from £4.3m innovation tech funding

NHS England has backed a £4.3m investment on five new technologies that may help ease pressure on A&E departments. The organisation has said that each of the five innovations, which could reduce A&E admissions through the likes of wireless monitoring, self-help apps and point of...

21/10/2014

Health technology companies with life-saving ideas to share £2.5m

The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare has launched its latest competition, offering £2.5m of funding to companies working in priority healthcare areas. The competition aims to accelerate the development and NHS adoption of new technologies. The programme focuses on...

21/03/2014

From brainstorm to bedside: turning innovative ideas into NHS reality

Karen Livingstone heads up SBRI Healthcare, the innovation-focused competition scheme that funds small businesses who think they can develop solutions to NHS problems. There are a vast number of problems needing solutions across the NHS, and while some can be developed internally or...

30/09/2015

‘Radical’ solutions to strained urgent care services in NHS could scoop £100,000 funding

Companies with “progressive and radical” ideas for products that could reduce pressure on urgent and emergency care services can bid for a £100,000 cash prize, in a competition launched by SBRI Healthcare. The NHS England-funded initiative is aimed at developing innovative...

04/10/2013

Small businesses charged to improve kidney treatment

A £3.6m competition has been launched to develop technology to improve kidney care. The Department of Health is funding the project through the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) with the money expected to be shared among 8 to 12 small businesses. There are currently 41,000...

20/05/2014

Kidney care receives innovation boost

The winners of a £3.6m funding competition to address the life-changing effects of kidney failure have been announced. The competition, launched last year, was funded by the Department of Health via SBRI Healthcare, whose chief executive Karen Livingstone was recently interviewed by NHE....

16/09/2013

Small businesses to benefit from £5m healthcare funding

The Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Healthcare will award £5m to help find innovative solutions to improve health outcomes, it has announced. The funding competition will focus on companies specifically focused on seven categories: cancer; cardiovascular; COPD; diabetes; mental...

10/04/2017

NHS invests £2.1m to drive new tech developments in primary care

The NHS has today given its backing to a programme led by SBRI Healthcare that will see £2.1m invested into innovative technologies to improve general practice. A total of 22 companies have been given awards of up to £100,000 to develop and commercialise novel technologies that will...