Health Innovation Programme Autumn 2024 - Now Open

Health Innovation Programme

📣Applications are now open! 📣

🗓️12, 13 and 26, 27 November 2024

📍 Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel, BH2 5DU

If you are a health and care innovator, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

The course is designed to help accelerate the progress of innovations into the NHS.

We are looking for innovators or SME’s:

- Based in the UK (i.e. registered office or place of work)

- Commit to attend all four days of the course 

- Have a minimal viable product with proof of concept completed

Attending this course will offer you an opportunity to:

- Better understand the UK health/and or social care pathway where your innovation sits, including key stakeholder, commissioning structures and how to review the current market

- Develop a value proposition for your innovation, presenting the value, impact and benefits of your innovation in a way that your stakeholders will understand and will relate to

- Learn about the regulatory, safety, efficacy and evidence required for adoption of your innovation into the NHS systems 

“Fantastic opportunity to network, learn and collaborate within a safe environment. Looking forward to next steps with HIW to demonstrate impact and protect IP. Would highly recommend”. March 2024 Alumni

This four-day course is fully funded by Health Innovation Wessex. Applicants will be expected to attend all four days. 

You will have opportunity to receive support from experienced members of the Health Innovation Wessex team throughout the course with potential for ongoing support afterwards. You will also hear from external experts from the health innovation landscape; this includes members of Dorset ICB, specialist intellectual property protection lawyers, successful health innovators who have successfully been through the journey and funding specialists who will help you to navigate the complex funding journey in health innovation. 

Selection process starts Monday 23 September

Applications received after this date may not be considered if capacity has been reached, spaces are limited.  

Visit our website here for more information, full course agenda and how to apply