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We recently held a webinar showcasing the 2026 Grow Digital Health Midlands cohort where we featured the nine innovators on this year’s programme for Midlands based NHS and public sector organisations. The event also introduced an opportunity to apply for funding of up to £20,000 to support the adoption of one of these innovations.
You can watch a recording of the event here.
You can download the slides here.
Guidance for applicants is available here.
The innovatons selected for the 2026 cohort respond to the challenge of NHS productivity and communication, a continuing theme from 2025.
An innovation by Kidney Beam Ltd, Beam is a clinically proven exercise and lifestyle app tailored for cardio-kidney-metabolic conditions.
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An NHS-approved digital consent to treatment application, replacing the traditional paper-based process, enabling shared decision making and remote consent.
A clinically and scientifically evaluated digital solution for weight management.
A productivity platform for NHS community care teams, that creates real-time visibility of demand and capacity to optimise care.
The innovation Prostate Intelligence™ (Pi™) is CE certified AI powered solution improving prostate cancer diagnosis by Lucida Medical.
Supporting clinical teams to understand patients better and detect deterioration sooner.
An innovation by BeneTalk, is an evidence-based digital platform providing personalised speech, language and communication support to families.
A mobile-based training platform that delivers bite-sized learning for NHS maternity staff.
A digital health platform improving patients’ understanding of medical information.
Grow Digital Health Midlands provides expert support to UK technology companies wanting to develop high-potential digital solutions for the NHS and care sector. This programme is designed to help innovators scale their technologies to address some of the most pressing challenges in healthcare today.
Formerly known as the East Midlands Digital Health Accelerator, this programme has built on its success since 2018, now expanding its reach across the Midlands region.
It offers unparalleled support to companies wanting to drive transformative change in healthcare delivery. Successful applicants to the programme receive support to enable the adoption, spread and scaling of their innovation within the Midlands health and care system.
Companies accepted onto the programme receive an intensive and free package of expert support, including:
An illustration of the programme support over the year
Our 2025 cohort included companies with digital innovations that align with the following themes.
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Testimonials from 2025 cohort - what does being on the programme mean to them:
Find out more about their solutions:
A digital health platform 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.
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.
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.
A remote patient assessment system for pre-operative surgical assessment, improving risk stratification and clinical decision making. Provides 24/7 remoting outside of a hospital setting, supporting hospitals to deliver safer and more effective surgical care whilst addressing productivity, waiting lists and patient flow.
An ambient Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool for medical scribers, 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.
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.
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.