Health Enterprise East launches Medovate to boost NHS medtech innovation
NHS Innovation Hub Health Enterprise East (HEE) has launched a separate medtech innovation development company called Medovate Ltd to boost the financial and technical support available to NHS medtech innovators.
Medtech Accelerator awards £500k to ground-breaking medical technology projects
Medtech Accelerator, a joint venture with innovation hub Health Enterprise East (HEE), has unveiled its latest round of successfully funded projects, with financial awards totalling nearly half a million pounds.
Medtech Accelerator Health Hack announced
Medtech Accelerator's next Health Hack - Frugal Innovation in Surgery - takes place on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th January 2018 at Cambridge Science Park. The organisers are keen to build on the success of the first Hackathon - Rehabilitation Technology.
Health Hack helps uncover the latest innovative healthcare technology
Medtech Accelerator Health Hack’s inaugural event offered innovators the chance to win up to £125,000 of funding to bring to market inventions that will help the NHS and patients alike.
Success for Cambridgeshire NHS Staff as winners in Healthcare Innovation Competition 2017
Awards recognise outstanding individuals & teams committed to improving patient care through innovation
Groundbreaking biopsy invention is step nearer
An invention by a Cambridge University Hospitals’ (CUH) consultant that has the potential to help prostate cancer patients and save the NHS millions of pounds is a step closer to becoming a reality.
Boost for NHS innovation as Medtech accelerator announces first award winners
Three pioneering projects will share in £200K to help progress their early stage technologies towards viable solutions to currently unmet healthcare needs.
Still time to enter Health Enterprise East Innovation competition
The deadline for entries for this year’s Health Enterprise East (HEE) Innovation competition - with a prize fund of £18,000 - is looming. The closing date is Friday 14th July.
Pioneering prostate biopsy device awarded £789K NIHR Product Development Award
Health Enterprise East (HEE), a leading NHS innovation hub, announced today that CAMPROBE (Cambridge Prostate Biopsy Device), a novel medical device to perform safer and more accurate prostate biopsies, has been awarded a £789,000 Invention for Innovation (i4i) Product Development Award by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Licence agreement signed for manufacture and supply of novel limb sterilisation device
Health Enterprise East (HEE), a leading NHS innovation hub, has announced the signing of a manufacture and distribution agreement for a novel limb sterilisation sleeve between Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Pentland Medical Limited, a provider of clinical products.
Health Enterprise East launches annual Innovation Awards 2017
Applications are open to NHS staff and small businesses with innovative new approaches to delivering patient care.
Medtech Accelerator finance scheme introduced in a £1.5 million joint venture
The Medtech Accelerator, a new proof of concept financial awards scheme to progress medical technology and software innovations developed primarily from within the NHS, launches today. With awards on offer between £15K and £125K, this new joint venture brings together the NHS, local authority and local business.
Novel elbow splint commences clinical trials in patients with ulnar neuropathies
Health Enterprise East (HEE), a leading NHS innovation hub, has announced that it is to commence clinical trials at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a world renowned centre of healthcare innovation, of the Cambridge Ulnar Splint for treatment of patients suffering neuropathies at the elbow.
Ablatus Therapeutics founded to develop and commercialise pioneering cancer treatment
Ablatus Therapeutics Ltd, a medical device company, has been founded to develop and commercialise a novel tissue ablation technology to treat the most challenging and often inoperable, solid cancer tumours.
Success for Cambridgeshire NHS staff as winners in Healthcare Innovation Competition
Cambridgeshire NHS staff are celebrating their success in the 2016 NHS Innovation Competition after being named winners of the best Software/ICT/Assistive Technology and also runners up in that group, as well reaching the finals in a further two categories.
SBRI Healthcare invests £1.1M in finding innovative healthcare technologies
SBRI Healthcare, an NHS England funded initiative to develop innovative products and services that address unmet health needs, today announced the launch of the latest SBRI Healthcare competition where up to 12 small business could each benefit from £100,000 Phase 1 product development funding.
SBRI Healthcare announces funding boost for urgent and emergency care services
SBRI Healthcare, an NHS England funded initiative to develop innovative products that address unmet health needs, today announced the 14 companies that will share £1.4 million funding to develop products that can significantly impact the increasing pressures being put on urgent and emergency care services.
The Health Enterprise East Innovation Competition is open for entries
With £12,500 worth of prize money available, the Health Enterprise East (HEE) Annual Innovation Competition 2016 is now open and looking for entries. Do you have an innovative idea which will benefit patients and healthcare delivery?
Older people with complex health needs benefit from SBRI Healthcare funding
SBRI Healthcare awards a further £1 million to develop innovative new technologies to help older people with multiple-morbidities.
Health Enterprise East expands team
Health Enterprise East (HEE), a provider of business and innovation management services to the NHS and industry, today announced the expansion of its team, with three new appointments.
Health Enterprise East spin-out sold to Allergan
Health Enterprise East (HEE), a provider of business and innovation management services to the NHS and industry, today announced the sale of its portfolio company, Northwood Medical Innovations Ltd, to Allergan plc (NYSE: AGN), a leading global pharmaceutical and aesthetics company. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Health Enterprise East refreshes branding and launches new website
Health Enterprise East (HEE), a provider of business and innovation management services to the NHS and industry, has launched its new website following a refresh of its branding.
SBRI Healthcare funds companies to develop game-changing technologies
SBRI Healthcare, an NHS England funded initiative to develop innovative products that address unmet health needs, today announced the 11 companies that have successfully reached the next phase (Phase 2) of the clinically-led competition.
Health Enterprise East inaugural NHS Innovation Showcase is a success
Health Enterprise East (HEE), the leading NHS Innovation Hub for the East of England, East Midlands and North London, announces a successful first year for its NHS Innovation Showcase, a one day event focused on connecting academic, commercial and public sector groups to explore the latest healthcare innovations in the region.
SBRI Healthcare invests in innovative projects to reduce pressure on emergency care
Latest SBRI Healthcare competition offers £100,000 Phase 1 funding to companies developing healthcare innovations.