Are you a start-up or a small to medium sized enterprise working in the space of delivering improved healthcare? Do you have the potential to change how healthcare is delivered? The SME Innovation Fund can provide the support you need to help your business grow.
A Health Technologies Cluster for the West Midlands is currently being created with the aim of promoting existing local companies and attract investment and new businesses to the region.
A fully funded, full time, three-year PhD studentship is available in Warwick Medical School, to commence as soon as possible in 2021. The studentship is part of the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration West Midlands (ARC WM). ARC WM is a £9 million, five-year initiative which started in October 2019.
Care homes have until 23 October 2020 to apply for a free iPad. The iPads are being prioritised for eligible care homes with the greatest need. The aim is to ensure that everyone living in a care home in England can access video consultations and remote care when needed.
A method for detecting traumatic brain injury at the point of care has been developed by scientists at the University of Birmingham.
Read "New Device for Detecting Traumatic Brain Injury ‘On the Spot’"
Birmingham is set to lead the delivery of medical innovation in the Midlands through the development of Birmingham Health Innovation Campus; attracting significant inward investment, creating high value jobs in the region, and accelerating the development and deployment of new drugs, diagnostics and healthcare technologies to patients.
Read "£210m world-class life science campus in the West Midlands "
WMAHSN has launched the Safety Innovation & Improvement Fund, giving individuals and teams working in health and social care the chance to apply for funding of up to £10,000 to support the spread or adoption of an innovation or improvement resulting in improvements for patients and service users.
A rapid-learning report on the role of Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) during the pandemic has been published by the AHSN Network
Today (8 October 2020), West Midlands Academic Health Science Network (WMAHSN) can reveal that the Transfer of Care Around Medicines (TCAM) – Extension to Pharmacy Teams Supporting Care Homes project has been announced as the winner of the Care Homes category at the annual PrescQIPP Awards.
Read "Midlands healthcare innovators recognised in Annual Awards"
AHSNs are supporting a new national funding initiative led by the Health Foundation, to support healthcare provider organisations to adopt innovation faster. Launched with support from England’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks, the Adopting Innovation programme opens for expressions of interest on 7 October 2020.
Read "AHSNs support initiative to create local NHS ‘innovation hubs’"