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Innovators exhibiting at our Showcase event have now been announced.
Join us on Thursday, 18 September, for a key event for East Midlands NHS and healthcare organisations, which will showcase a range of proven, tested technologies that are already delivering impact within our health system.
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A digital tool enhancing healthcare communications supporting email management for healthcare professionals. The tool automatically detects patient related communication and prioritises urgent messages, supporting clinicians to effectively manage and prevent missed patient emails.
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An ambient AI tool for medical scribers, automating clinical documentation and supporting clinician productivity by reducing administrative tasks. The tool allows clinicians to work more efficiently and focus more on the patient, reducing the risk of burnout.
The Appt Health digital health platform is a seamless automated system that automates care coordination for people living with multiple long term conditions. The platform helps NHS services streamline appointments and reduces the time spent on administration tasks.
Get rid of paper consent forms. Say hello to Concentric; easy, reassuring, digital consent. Trusted by 35+ NHS Trusts and supporting over a million patients annually, Concentric is the market-leading digital consent application, transforming healthcare consent and shared decision-making process.
DERM (Deep Ensemble for the Recognition of Malignancy) is an AI‑driven medical device that can classify moles or skin lesions in seconds through the autonomous assessment of dermoscopic images of skin lesions. It increases capacity and supports the reduction of waitlists.
A clinical decision support tool that automates the collection of personalised information for hypertensive patients, saving time and reducing clinical resources. It provides prescribing recommendations tailored to patient-specific data and NICE guidelines, including for those with multiple comorbidities.
The Genedrive ID Kit allows clinicians to make a decision on antibiotic use in neonatal intensive care units within 26 minutes, ensuring vital care is delivered, avoiding adverse effects potentially otherwise encountered and with no negative impact on the patient care pathway.
The Healthy Mind VR solution is a unique system of immersion therapy in a virtual environment that uses the brain’s cognitive abilities to modulate pain pathways through visual and auditory stimulation, attention diversion and various advanced psychological principles to reduce pain and anxiety.
The Hope Programme provides digital self-management for people with long-term conditions and carers. Co-designed with users, clinicians and researchers. It builds knowledge, skills and management to manage health and wellbeing in the community, reducing the pressure on NHS services.
iCount is an AI-powered system that prevents retained surgical swabs by using swab-docking clips and real-time computer vision verification. The devices can be used without AI as a simple physical checklist. iCount improves count accuracy and enhances surgical safety.
JanamApp is an app which aims to improve perinatal and maternity outcomes and improve access to maternity care, addressing language barriers, and standardising essential information. Information is available in an easy-to-use platform in English and 6 South Asian languages in audiovisual format.
Kaenect is a secure digital clinical platform that connects GPs and community pharmacies through AI-powered referral automation, streamlined consultation management, and patient engagement tools, improving access, efficiency, and collaboration across primary care.
A digital health platform which supports patients and clinicians across the full spectrum of chronic kidney disease, from early detection to dialysis and post-transplant care. It empowers patients to self-manage their condition, providing educational content, remote monitoring tools, and seamless communication with clinicians.
Neu Health is a healthcare solution dedicated to the effective management of chronic neurological conditions. Their digital platform for clinicians drives better clinical outcomes through patients using a mobile app, connected to an AI-driven clinical decision support tool.
The Psyomics Platform is a digital mental health tool that sits at the front door of secondary care mental health services, within the referral-to-assessment pathway, supporting the intake, triage and assessment processes for adults and CAMHS services.
Designed for use in community and workplace settings, the SiSU Health platform combines self-service health check kiosks with a secure digital app and portal, allowing individuals to measure, track, and improve key health indicators such as blood pressure, BMI, body fat percentage, and cardiovascular risk.
Smart Triage is the UK's only fully autonomous AI-powered triage and appointment booking system for GP practices. It removes the need for manual data entry or staff intervention, ensuring patients are triaged and booked into the right care pathway, whether online, by phone, or in person.
The S-Press is a portable, progressive resistance, leg strengthening device that can be used by patients in hospital on their beds or sitting in a chair or wheelchair. It brings 'the gym' directly to patients most in need of crucial muscle strengthening due to deconditioning and injury or illness.
SuperPenguin is an NHS-procured, digital-first mobile app for carers of individuals with speech, language & communication needs. AI-tailored content delivers support at home, promoting early intervention, empowering families, easing therapy backlogs and tackling health inequalities.
Surgery Hero is a Digital Prehabilitation Clinic, designed to help people prepare for and recover from surgery at home. Our digital programme offers 24/7 access to self-care resources, expert one-on-one guidance, and a supportive peer community tailored for every person and every type of surgery.
A remote patient assessment system for pre-operative surgical assessment, improving risk stratification and clinical decision making. It provides 24/7 remoting outside of a hospital setting, delivering safer and more effective surgical care whilst addressing productivity, waiting lists and patient flow.
Suvera provides virtual clinics to support primary care outcomes for patients living with long term conditions. The platform helps to increase capacity, streamline workflows and improve patient outcomes, combining technology and care delivery to proactively manage long-term conditions at scale.
Tellmi is a multi-award winning digital mental health service which increases access at lower costs. With anonymous premoderated peer support, counsellor intervention for high risk, smart signposting and text based solution focused therapy, Tellmi is suitable for anyone aged 11+.
ThinkDivergent automates and streamlines adult ADHD assessments, improving patient care while giving precious time back to clinicians. ThinkDivergent exists to transform neurodevelopmental care, ensuring access to life-changing self knowledge, validation and support for everyone.
Putting the 10 Year Plan into action: Enabling transformation of healthcare through research, innovation, and life sciences
Will Warburton is the Director of Life Sciences Policy and Strategy at NHS England, part of the Innovation, Research and Life Sciences Team, which he co-leads. The team supports the NHS, industry, patients and partners across the innovation ecosystem to collaborate to improve healthcare.
Will has over 20 years' experience in healthcare, with a longstanding commitment to improving the spread of innovation. He was previously Managing Director of the Shelford Group, a collaboration of ten large teaching and research NHS trusts, and Director of Improvement at the Health Foundation, where he led an extensive commissioning and funding programme aiming to build knowledge and practical examples of what it takes to deliver effective improvement and innovation in the NHS. Will has also worked as Operational Director for the Centre for Health Policy at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London, Forum Director for the World Innovation Summit for Health in Qatar, and an operational manager in the NHS.
Harnessing research and innovation to drive transformative change
Nigel Brunskill is Consultant Nephrologist for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust since 1997 and University of Leicester Professor of Renal Medicine since 2006.
He is Director of Research and Innovation for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and for the University Hospitals of Leicester/University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Trust Partnership Group. He is Director of the NIHR Leicester Clinical Research Facility. He was Director of the NIHR Leicester CRF and Leicestershire Academic Health Partners between 2019 and June 2025.
He is Chair of the East Midlands SDE Delivery Board and Co-Chair of the UK Renal Health Data Science Research Network.
Fit for the future: the importance of innovation in reshaping the NHS.
Amanda is the Chief Executive for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board. Amanda has been a proponent of integrated care, being Joint SRO of the Mid-Nottinghamshire Better Together programme between 2014 and 2018. This was a Vanguard Primary and Acute Care System (PACS) site, with an Alliance across health and local government.
Amanda has a clinical background, working as a nurse and a midwife before moving into senior management in both acute and commissioning roles. In 2001 Amanda was awarded a PhD for research investigating decision-making during pregnancy.
In her capacity as a consultant midwife, Amanda worked at regional and national levels. She chaired a working group on behalf of the National Screening Committee, which developed national standards for ultrasound consent in pregnancy. She has also edited midwifery text books.
The showcase will focus on innovations across a range of secondary and primary care themes including maternity & neonatal, mental health, neurology, cancer, nephrology, primary care access, surgical innovation and community care that are aligned to the three strategic government shifts:
In addition to the exhibition, the agenda includes contributions from system leaders who will discuss the challenges and opportunities for health and care transformation:
The event aims to provide practical and actionable learning and insight, along with access to a range of innovations that can be quickly adopted to support transformation planning.
Places at the event are limited, so book now to avoid disappointment.
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Please note that this event is specifically aimed at health and care professionals working within the NHS in the East Midlands and is not aimed at private companies or organisations. If you are an Innovator looking for support, please see our Innovator Hub on the Health Innovation East Midlands website for information and guidance.