Driving Local Innovation to Meet Regional NHS Community

Tackling community health challenges through innovation

Arise Innovation Hubs are delighted to be collaborating with Medilink Midlands and Innovate UK in a series of events for autumn and winter 2025/26. The second of these events looks at an overarching theme in the NHS’s current 10-year plan, which aims to make the NHS fit for the future.

As we look to move from research to reality how are we going to enable more of us to be treated within the community, keeping hospitals ready for those times when we really need them?

In a recent paper by the Wellcome Trust it becomes clear that we need to put research at the heart of health, to improve and equalise outcomes.

We will look at the barriers and opportunities for working with the community addressing the following questions:

• How do we enable patchy patient engagement to become a network of proactive and involved citizens?
• How do we enable research to be embedded into everyday care, with trustworthy data infrastructure and incentivised for all to engage?
• How do we ensure adoption of innovations are widespread, allowing innovations to be scaled?

Agenda

• 10-10.30am: Arrival, networking and refreshments
• 10.30-10.35am: Introduction and Welcome by Arise
• 10.35-10.50am: Setting the Scene I – what does a day in the life of a doctor look like in ten years? How do remote monitoring technologies change the way the health service operates? 
  Bruce Adams| Managing Director, Clinitouch
• 10.50-11.05am: Setting the scene II – How do we co-create the digital solutions and support tools for healthcare of the future? 
  Dr Alice Byram| President of Digital Health, Royal Society of Medicine
• 11.05-11.10am: Q&A
• 11.10-11.30am: Coffee and networking break
• 11.30-11.45am: Lightening pitches
  Seacrest Care Services | Ebun Ojemuyiwa
  Graphene Trace | Dr Scott Dean
• 11.45-11.55am: Q&A
• 11.55am-12.20pm: Support available to innovators
• Supporting MedTech innovators working in healthcare
  Nicola Wheeler-Thorn| Managing Director, AND Technology and Research
• Support available from Innovate UK
  Mike Herd | Business Growth Scaleup Director, Innovate UK
• Introducing Connected Innovation
  Scott Cogman | Director, Connected Innovation Hubs
• 12.20-1pm: Networking lunch

Please register using an institutional or business email account.

Places are limited. If you cannot attend once registered for the event please email [email protected]