Last month, we brought together health and care leaders and innovators to connect and collaborate at our conference, where we had a dedicated Innovation Zone with a carefully curated showcase of 20 cutting-edge solutions and services, leading the way in health and care innovation.
Delegates got to meet the innovators and learn more about an exciting array of solutions, all with the potential to drive change and improve the lives of people in our local communities.
Getting people talking
A series of three interactive panel discussions took place in the Innovation Zone during the course of the day. They explored the three main stages of an innovation’s journey on the path to adoption and spread across our health and care systems: discovery, development and deployment.
Panel session 1: How can we best work together to support the development of promising solutions to meet health and care needs?
Chaired by Alex Leach, Deputy Director of Programmes at Health Innovation West of England, our first discussion focused on how we can best work together to support the development of promising solutions to meet health and care needs. The panellists were Febin Basheer, GP and a Primary Care Clinical Lead at Health Innovation West of England; Nick Gompertz, founder of EarSwitch; and Dr Stephanie Jay, Enterprise and Innovation Manager at UWE Bristol.
Watch the first Innovation Zone panel session here.
Panel session 2: How can we effectively partner innovators with health and care providers to accelerate proof of value and market readiness?
Chaired by Pete Carpenter, Director of Programmes at Health Innovation West of England, this panel discussion focused on how we can effectively partner innovators with health and care providers to accelerate proof of value and market readiness. The line-up of panellists featured Chen Mao Davies, founder of Anya; Genevieve Riley, Senior Programme Manager – Insight & Evaluation at Health Innovation West of England; and Peter Wathen, Head of Digital Transformation at Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board.
Watch the second Innovation Zone panel session here.
Panel session 3: How can we better support health and care systems to adopt and spread proven innovations?
Chaired by Dave Evans, Deputy Director of Programmes at Health Innovation West of England, the final panel discussion in the innovation zone explored how we can better support health and care systems to adopt and spread proven innovations. The panellists were Carey McClellan, CEO and founder of getUBetter, Verena Stocker, Director of Innovation, Research and Life Sciences Strategy at NHS England and Hassan Chaudhury, Co-founder of Vita Healthcare Solutions, Commercial Director of DATA-CAN and Head of Commercial for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust.
Read more about this final panel session here.
Meet the innovators
A huge thank you to all the innovators who exhibited in our Innovation Zone:
- Anya
- Bristol Robotics Laboratory
- C the Signs
- CheqUp
- Deep Health
- EarSwitch
- getUBetter
- Healios
- Skin Analytics
- Health.io
- iRhythm
- LabCycle
- Lucida Medical
- Mayden
- Pogo Digital Healthcare
- Psyomics
- The Real Birth Company
- Revolution-ZERO
- The Sound Doctor
Explore further content from our 2024 conference here.
Posted on December 6, 2024
