Health Innovation East Midlands and Health Innovation West Midlands will showcase nine innovations as part of an exclusive event for its Grow Digital Midlands Health programme. 

Taking place on Thursday 10th September, 11:00am-12:00pm, this online event will spotlight innovators from the 2026 cohort and launch an enabling funding opportunity offering awards of up to £20,000 to health and care organisations to support the adoption of one of these innovations. 

Grow Digital Health Midlands supports UK healthcare innovators in developing and scaling impactful innovations that address some of today's most pressing challenges. 

To ensure the innovations we support are relevant and address known challenges across local health and care services, we work closely with Midlands healthcare stakeholders to identify priority themes. For 2026, these are focused on enhancing NHS productivity and communication through: 

• Releasing time to care and support our workforce 

• Increasing productivity, through initiatives such as 

• DNA (did not attend) identification, easy rescheduling and cancellations  

• Demand and capacity planning 

• Intelligent rostering and demand prediction 

• Enabling patient self-management in the community  

• Building capacity for neighbourhood health, bringing care closer to home 

Visit our website to read more about how the innovators on the programme are addressing these challenges.  

More information 

Register for the event here. For any queries, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  

We are also hosting a Q&A briefing session on Tuesday 15th September, 11:00am-12:30pm which will provide more information on the enabling fund opportunity and offers the chance to engage with programme leads and ask any questions on the application process. Register for the session here. 

Each week we will be spotlighting one of the presenting innovators on our LinkedIn page, highlighting how their innovation provides solutions to enhance NHS productivity and communication. View our LinkedIn page here.