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Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria (HI NENC)

Our aim

Our aim is to transform lives through innovation by supporting health and social care teams to find, test, and implement new solutions at scale to address the challenges faced by the NHS and drive economic growth.

Who we are

  • HI NENC is one of 15 Health Innovation Networks across England, commissioned to support local health and care teams to deliver health innovation, create improved health and economic growth in all our communities.
  • Locally, we provide innovation adoption support to health and care teams.
  • Nationally, we come together as the Health Innovation Network to share best practice, accelerate learning and deliver national spread of innovation at pace and scale.

Our services

  • Horizon scanning
  • Regulatory support
  • Unmet needs analysis
  • Intended purpose
  • Marketing & Business
  • Prototype development
  • Value proposition
  • Clinical evidence generation
  • Market access launch
  • NHS implementation
  • Post market surveillance
  • Signposting
  • Funding support

TRLs supported

We support innovations from TRL 1 to TRL 9.

Funding requirement

Either self-funded by company or researcher, or as co-applicants or collaborators on grant applications. We can also help to signpost to appropriate funding opportunities.

Evidence requirements

Varies depending on the TRL level.

Our customers

We work with companies, academics and health and social care staff. We also support international companies looking to enter the UK market.

Hexagon supported

Horizon scanning

Health Innovation North East North Cumbria provides resources for horizon scanning activities, utilising their innovation pathway.

Unmet needs

We work with our local health and care sector to identify problems and where appropriate run unmet need challenges to identify innovations to support the system. We have a defined process to identify, articulate and deliver unmet need calls regionally and nationally.

Intended purpose

We work with innovators and the health and care system to understand use cases and whether there is an opportunity to provide the system a better alternative or a new solution that will demonstrate system and patient impact.

Market analysis & business planning

We provide market research and horizon scans to support business planning and development of innovations.

Prototype development

Through our ecosystem we can help to identify organisations to support prototype development as well as funding opportunities to support this work.

Value proposition

We have a well-defined process for helping innovators to articulate and validate their value proposition to the NHS and social care.

Pre-clinical evidence generation

Through our ecosystem we can support innovators to find partners to help with evidence generation.

Clinical evidence generation

Through our ecosystem we can support innovators to find partners to help with evidence generation. We also support real world evaluation of innovations in partnership with local health and social care teams.

Regulatory certification

We can offer advice on the most appropriate regulatory route for an innovation.

Market access & launch

We have a well-defined process for developing business cases and market access plans and strategies both locally and nationally.

NHS implementation

We work closely with the NHS and social care teams to support deployment of well-evidenced innovation which includes evaluation.

Post market surveillance

Health Innovation North East North Cumbria provides regional diagnostic performance surveillance via digital systems

Contact details

Visit our website https://healthinnovationnenc.org.uk/
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