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Health is critical to our wellbeing as individuals, plays a key role in societal and economic advances, and presents many opportunities for environmental impact. Innovations in health & care allow us to alleviate suffering, increase quality of life and life expectancy, and manage the needs of a changing and ageing population.
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The Health sector which delivers these innovations is diverse and covers a wide range of business activities. Innovate UK Business Connect covers the whole sector by focusing on the broad sub sectors of Medicines, Medical Technology and Digital Health. The logic behind this focus is that each of the sub-sectors is a significant sector in its own right and has distinct characteristics. The Health team at Innovate UK Business Connect has considerable experience of working in these sub-sectors and of driving cross-sector working to facilitate positive change.
Our Medimap provides a dynamic representation of the UK’s end-to-end medicines supply chain covering organisations involved in the discovery, development and manufacture of medicines, as well as those supporting the sector.
Our Health Funding Map, developed with the BioIndustry Association (BIA), will help in the navigation of the complicated world of medical and health innovation funding. You can find links to, details of, and further information on many funding schemes covering a wide variety of health areas.
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Global Incubator Programme: Canada - AI in Health
Opens: 22/01/2024 Closes: 15/03/2024
Innovate UK EDGE seeks up to 8 companies developing health tech using AI-powered solutions to join a programme working with Canada.
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NHS Cancer Programme: Innovation Open Call 3
Opens: 26/01/2024 Closes: 29/05/2024
NHS England has launched a new round of its funding competition for innovation in the early detection and diagnosis of cancer.
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Open Innovation Challenge: Next-generation digital learning tools for community health workers
Opens: 12/02/2024 Closes: 22/03/2024
AMREF Health Africa is looking to transform its digital learning tools for community health workers, using next-generation technologies.
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Global Business Innovation Programme in India - Antimicrobial Resistance
Opens: 28/02/2024 Closes: 10/04/2024
Innovate UK invites ambitious companies in the Antimicrobial Resistance sector to join a programme that includes market visits to Hyderabad and Bangalore.
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Mobile Evidential Drug Testing Instrument (MEDTI) Demonstrator
Opens: 19/02/2024 Closes: 16/04/2024
The DfT are seeking innovations to develop roadside evidential drug testing capability to enable effective enforcement of drug driving offending.
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Global Business Innovation Programme in Singapore - MedTech and Diagnostics
Opens: 11/03/2024 Closes: 21/03/2024
Innovate UK invites ambitious MedTech & Diagnostics companies to participate in a Global Business Innovation Programme that will include a market visit to Singapore.