Today, DigitalHealth.London opened applications for the eighth cohort of its award-winning Accelerator programme, designed for digital health businesses with innovative products or services that have strong potential to address current NHS and service challenges social.
The program helps innovators maximize their ability to engage commercially with the NHS and social care through enhanced connections, credibility and trust-building opportunities.
Companies accepted into the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator benefit from:
- Tailor-made support an assigned NHS Navigator with clinical expertise or NHS Service Manager
- Direct engagement with high-level stakeholders, clinicians and healthcare experts to ensure their product meets real-world needs
- Opportunities and Resources refine innovations for maximum impact through workshops led by digital health experts and advisors across the DigitalHealth.London network
- Brokering Meaningful Connections between innovators and NHS organizations facing specific challenges
Since 2016, the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator has helped 160 digital health businesses scale and thrive in the UK and beyond. As the UK’s leading accelerator for its track recordtheir former students (including Huma, DrPhysician, Cheerful health, Electronic consultation, AccuRx And NH) have achieved remarkable success, winning over 745 contracts, 3,706 NHS pilot projects and launching 88 new products into the NHS market. On average, every £1 of public investment spent on the program generates £10.90 in economic benefits.
The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator program is part of the Digital Health.London Business Support for London project which has received £1,379,257.04 from the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF).
Digital innovation is essential to overcoming the challenges facing the NHS and social care. Since 2016, our Accelerator program has supported 160 digital health companies that have had a positive impact on the healthcare landscape. We are delighted to open applications for our eighth cohort of innovators ready for large-scale adoption to bring their transformative solutions to the NHS and social care, for the staff and patients who need them.
Sarah Nelson
Program Director at DigitalHealth.London
Empowering patients, improving patient health outcomes, and improving efficiency are just three of the areas our award-winning accelerator is focused on. Part-funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) and the Office for Life Sciences, the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London is proud to support DigitalHealth.London’s Accelerator, recognized as one of the best European programs in digital health. businesses. If you are an innovator delivering solutions to the challenges facing the NHS and social care, this is a great opportunity to learn from our partners, experts and industry leaders about best practice adoption, scale and diffusion.
Rishi Das Gupta
Managing Director of the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London
DigitalHealth.London illustrates how health innovation networks and local partners can work together to support innovators and the NHS in a region. The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator program offers businesses at the forefront of healthcare innovation a fantastic opportunity to better understand the inner workings of the NHS and how best to work with healthcare organizations to deliver their products and services to people who need it to improve themselves. Patient results. The Accelerator aims to strengthen local entrepreneurial ecosystems and support diverse founders to collaborate with the NHS, enabling them to successfully develop and drive economic growth in London and nationally.
Dr. Chris Streather
Regional Medical Director and Director of Clinical Information for NHS England, London Region
As a founding partner of the DigitalHealth.London Accelerator programme, we have worked closely to support previous cohorts of the accelerator, playing an active role in several stages of this successful programme. This is a great opportunity to connect with companies at the forefront of digital health innovation and we encourage innovators from across the sector to apply for the eighth cohort. The partnership continues to help us grow CW Innovation and become one of the leading sites adopting digital innovations to improve patient care and experience.
Chris Chaney
Managing Director of CW+
We are very proud of the scale to which our technology has already been adopted across the NHS and the impact we are having on the lives of thousands of clinicians. Being part of DigitalHealth.London’s fourth accelerator cohort (2019-20) has provided us with valuable opportunities to connect with industry experts as well as other health technology innovators. I would encourage ambitious businesses like ours, with great ideas, to apply for this brilliant program accelerating the uptake of digital health innovations in the NHS.
Anas Nader
Co-founder of Patchwork Health (Accelerator 4 Cohort 2019-20)
The DigitalHealth.London Accelerator has opened the doors to key leaders across the NHS, allowing us to demonstrate how our solutions can transform the lives of clinicians and patients. This helped us understand the importance of our stories as clinicians and service users, and how to communicate them effectively. We also met other amazing innovators and remain part of a great community that continues to offer support to this day.
Ross O’Brien
Managing Director of WYSA (Accelerator Cohort 6 2022-23)
Following the application process, up to 20 UK-registered businesses that offer products or services with high potential to address NHS and social care challenges will be offered a place on the program. No fees are charged to businesses, but places are subject to UK grant control rules and have a minimum financial aid (MFA) value of £35,000.00.
Applications open on Wednesday May 8, 2024 and close on Sunday June 16, 2024 at midnight.
DigitalHealth.London will also host two 101 webinars to provide interested parties with the opportunity to engage directly with members of the program delivery team:
For more information, please visit DigitalHealth.London accelerator page or the Accelerator FAQs.
THE DigitalHealth.London Accelerator The program is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF). It is delivered by the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London in partnership with the Office of Life Sciences, CW+, Medicity, NHS England, the Mayor of London and the Leveling Up Fund.
For more information, please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-
Shared Prosperity Fund prospectus.
