26 Jan 2022
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07 Feb 2022
SBRI Healthcare announces winners of multi-million pound funding for innovations in cancer, stroke and delivery of a Net Zero NHS
SBRI Healthcare has announced the winning projects in three multi-million pound funding competitions for innovations in cancer, stroke and to support delivery of a Net Zero NHS.
SBRI Healthcare is an NHS England & NHS Improvement initiative, supported by Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and managed by LGC Group. It aims to promote UK economic growth whilst addressing unmet health needs and enhancing the take up of known best practice.
The awards were made following three nationwide calls:
Cancer Programme
SBRI Healthcare has awarded more than £9million of funding for eight late stage innovation projects that advance the earlier and faster diagnosis of cancer. The funding competition, launched in March 2021 in partnership with the NHS Cancer Programme and the Accelerated Access Collaborative, is the first of its kind, and attracted 51 applications from the open market. It called for late-stage solutions to the challenges of improving the early detection and diagnosis of cancer; and diagnostic efficiency for cancer services. All winning technologies have already proven their clinical effectiveness, and through this programme will be implemented either locally or nationally, to prove they can be rolled out.
Competition 18 ‘Delivering a Net Zero NHS’
£1 million has been awarded to 10 pioneering MedTech and Digital innovations to support the delivery of a NetZero NHS. The competition, developed in partnership with the Greener NHS Programme, AHSN Network and Accelerated Access Collaborative, asked for innovations which could demonstrate their impact on carbon emissions whilst considering the systematic complexity, supply chain and product lifecycles involved in their implementation. These solutions also needed to demonstrate how they will maintain and improve the overall delivery of healthcare and health outcomes within the NHS.
Competition 18 ‘Stroke and Technology’
SBRI Healthcare has awarded £800,000 to nine pioneering MedTech innovations in the field of Stroke and Technology. The competition, developed in partnership with the Stroke Association, the AHSN Network and the Accelerated Access Collaborative, focused on improving the quality of NHS services in the context of care provided to stroke patients, reducing the prevalence of independent lives lost to stroke by early identification of at-risk groups, and to ensure provision of support which will help patients manage their condition.