Health Technology Support Programme Round 1 PDA

Health Innovation Wessex can help you to achieve funding to develop your innovation.

The HTSP Round 1 support focuses on the NIHR- i4i- product development award (PDA) call 29.

Successful applicants receive the following support free of charge: 

• Engagement with Wessex clinicians and academics to form a research team to apply for the targeted funding calls
• Feedback on their innovations and ways in which it may better meet clinical needs

• A fully funded associate who will provide project management support to coordinate bid writing, liaising with the chief investigators and wider research teams, and ensuring that deadlines are met.

 i4i PDA Call 29 timeline:

i4i PDA Call 29 timeline:

• Pre-launch webinar 10th September 10am

• Competition launches on 10 October

• Application deadline: 1300hrs 05 December 

• You will be notified in February 2025 and if successful invited to apply for stage 2.

The next i4i Product Development Awards funding call will launch on

10 October 2024 (PDA Call 29).

*The call will be supported by Orthopaedic Research UK

*Highlight notice - Innovation in musculoskeletal health

(Although there is a  highlight notice on musculoskeletal health in collaboration with Orthopaedic Research UK who are seeking to co-fund some applications to help transform musculoskeletal health outcomes. However, the call is open to all health areas as long as the research proposal is within the remit of the PDA and does not necessarily need to focus on MSK).

The HTSP is divided into five stages: 

1. You complete the HIW Company Engagement Form and email: rosie.mackay@hiwessex.net
2. Applicants will be invited to meet with HIW and NIHR CRN Wessex to discuss their innovation and suitability for a collaboration
3. If successful, applicants (with the support of HIW) will complete an information pack with application documents and highlight areas where the innovator would benefit from feedback, clinical input or research support
4. This information pack is reviewed by an expert panel of clinicians and academics for feedback, advice and where appropriate signposting to other opportunities
5. HIW will invite successful applicants to form a strong research team with clinicians and academics, who will help them apply for funding to develop their innovation or real world evaluation.

  You must meet the following eligibility criteria:

- You must be a UK registered small-to-medium-sized enterprise (SME)

- The innovation of interest will meet the funding opportunity criteria 

- The research will be carried out in England

(principally in Dorset and Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, as defined in the About Us page).

To apply to HTSP round 1 PDA: complete our Engagement Form and choose option ‘HTSP’ then email Rosie.Mackay@hiwessex.net with any questions you may have. 

Closing date for applications to the HTSP: 10th October 2024