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In January 2026 the Grow Digital Health Midlands programme hosted a neighbourhood health innovation showcase to launch a neighbourhood health innovation fund.
If you were unable to attend on the day or would like to rewatch the session:
At the event we shared details of the Grow Digital Health Midlands Neighbourhood Health fund, with awards of up to £20,000 per project available to support the deployment of the innovations showcased at the event within NHS, health and care organisations based in the Midlands region. More information and the initial Expression of Interest form can be found here.
To support the application process and answer any questions we held a Q&A session on Thursday 29th January.
You can view the slides from the Q&A session here.
You can Watch a recording of the session here.
The application window has now closed but you can still click the 'More information' buttons below to see the contact details for each member of Grow Digital Health Midlands 2025 cohort:
A clinical support tool that automates the collection of personalised information for hypertensive patients, saving time and reducing clinical resources.
ExpertCare’s clinically validated, NICE-aligned platform directly supports NHS England’s CVD prevention and neighbourhood health priorities, helping to achieve the national ambition of a 25% reduction in CVD-related premature mortality over the next decade. This leading-edge digital clinical decision support and population-health optimisation solution transforms hypertension and hypercholesterolaemia management into measurable health and productivity gains, typically paying for itself within months.
ExpertCare’s pharmacist-led process integrates seamlessly with existing EHR systems to enable proactive, community-based management of high-priority cardiovascular cohorts without disrupting GP workflows.
"ExpertCare is fast, accurate, and reliable. It is a game changer."- Sarah Dekmak, Head of Operations, Lead Clinical Pharmacist
Summary Slide Deck
DXS overview video
ExpertCare short brochure
David Immelman - CEO
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Suvera delivers a proactive Virtual Clinic that combines technology with compassionate, community-based care.
Suvera’s mission aligns closely with the Neighbourhood Health vision of bringing care closer to communities and empowering people to live healthier lives. Working with PCNs and GP practices across England, we deliver a proactive Virtual Clinic that combines technology with compassionate, community-based care. With every partner we work directly at practice level: getting to know their workflows, operational processes, and the local organisations or support groups they want us to connect patients with. For example, in partnership with one ICB, we’ve co-designed a programme that links patients to community charities and health coaching services, helping them manage long-term conditions more holistically.
Our population health and recall tool, Planner, frees up capacity by automating workflows and identifying patients most in need, ensuring resources are directed where they have the greatest impact. This approach prevents adverse events, keeps people out of hospital, and improves patient access – all while saving appointment time and admin hours. In line with Neighbourhood Health, Suvera is showing how digital innovation and community collaboration can transform primary care and create healthier neighbourhoods.
"I have been using Suvera's services for a few years now and have found their innovative methods of helping patients fantastic… a mature understanding of practice QoF work as well as the PCN Network DES and used it to roll out online services to help practices and PCNs achieve higher prevalence and better monitoring for long term conditions. I look forward to more innovative ways in which Suvera will help general practice in the future"
Suvera short brochure
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Clinicians lose valuable time to documentation - Heidi gives it back with automated clinical notes.
The neighbourhood model succeeds when teams share consistent, contemporaneous clinical records that make cross-service working effortless. Heidi Health is built for that reality. Our platform ensures high-quality, contemporaneous consultation documentation and structured records that can be configured and customised to the needs of GPs, multidisciplinary teams, allied health professionals, mental-health services and community partners.
That balance of consistency and configurability lets neighbourhood teams capture the right detail for each discipline while preserving shared data for continuity, handovers and coordinated care. By making documentation usable, timely and adaptable to local models, Heidi helps neighbourhoods operate as integrated systems and deliver community-centred outcomes.
"Heidi is genuinely incredible. This is going to be the future. Not only does it save time, but all aspects of the consultation are recorded allowing for more accurate notes. It also allows you to be fully engaged with patients, rather than intermittently having to tap away at notes. Genuinely shocked at how good it is." - GP
"Heidi is genuinely incredible. This is going to be the future. Not only does it save time, but all aspects of the consultation are recorded allowing for more accurate notes. It also allows you to be fully engaged with patients, rather than intermittently having to tap away at notes. Genuinely shocked at how good it is."
- GP
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The Hope Programme® is a health and wellbeing intervention for organisations that work with people living with a long-term condition, and for employers to support staff wellbeing and resilience.
“The Hope Programme strengthens neighbourhood with practical, holistic, evidence-based self-management support close to home. It is co-designed and delivered by people with lived experience of long-term conditions, making it grounded in what matters to people. Hope Programme’s flexible digital and in-person options mean everyone can take part. This helps people manage better at home, improves wellbeing and reduces avoidable pressure on local health services.”
“HOPE is a very well presented and thought-out course. I love that it's in small sections so that on a bad fatigue day I could still achieve a little something by completing a session to chip away at the overall load. This has given me the confidence to try another course.” - Hope programme participant
“HOPE is a very well presented and thought-out course. I love that it's in small sections so that on a bad fatigue day I could still achieve a little something by completing a session to chip away at the overall load. This has given me the confidence to try another course.”
- Hope programme participant
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Surgfit™'s wearable biosensor and patient App uniquely captures physiological and functional capacity data to determine patients’ fitness for surgery.
Asclepius MedTech has reimagined how hospitals deliver surgical preoperative assessment services with its "groundbreaking" technology Surgfit™.
Clinically trialled its wearable biosensor + patient App uniquely captures physiological and functional capacity data to determine patients’ fitness for surgery.
Surgery is often seen as safe with full recovery expected, but it carries high risks. Despite advances in surgical and perioperative care, complication and readmission rates remain unchanged.
Clinical consensus is that current assessment technologies to assess patient fitness for surgery are subjective, unreliable, costly and inconvenient and hospital based.
New tools and models of care are needed to improve surgical care, address productivity in the NHS 10-Year Plan and enable virtual surgical pre-op assessment in patients own homes.
Asclepius welcomes the Grow Neighbourhood Health Innovation Fund. Working with Integrated Care Systems (ICS) to explore initiation of Surgfit™ in GP Surgeries, Pharmacy or Care Homes and deliver pre-op assessment closer to where people live and improve surgical outcomes.
"As former Deputy CEO of NHS England I am only too aware of the pressures on the NHS. Surgfit offers a significant opportunity to bring preoperative assessment into the modern world, using its digital capability and remote working to increase efficiency, whilst tackling the growing numbers of patients on elective surgical waiting lists" - Dame Barbara Hakin, DBE, Chair Health Tech Alliance
"As former Deputy CEO of NHS England I am only too aware of the pressures on the NHS. Surgfit offers a significant opportunity to bring preoperative assessment into the modern world, using its digital capability and remote working to increase efficiency, whilst tackling the growing numbers of patients on elective surgical waiting lists"
- Dame Barbara Hakin, DBE, Chair Health Tech Alliance
Neighbourhood Health - Asclepius
Asclepius Medtech leaflet
Pitch video
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Protecting NHS patients and staff from email overload, giving staff time back to care and share, making email manageable and safe using intelligent automation (IA).
Neighbourhood Health depends on coordination across multidisciplinary teams and care pathways spanning general practice, community, and secondary care. Healthcare email provides unified communication accessible to all staff regardless of EPR system. Yet NHS staff are overwhelmed - 1 in 3 find email unmanageable, 1 in 2 clinicians report missing clinical emails (Bakhai, 2022), with an estimated 19 million clinical emails unread annually (NHS DigiWell study, 2024).
AirEmail supports Neighbourhood Health implementation by improving communication reliability across Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, between primary and community services, and during transitions of care. Our healthcare email management tool, validated in an NHS clinical trial, helps clinicians stay on top of clinical communications - particularly vital for 'Home First' approaches where patients move through complex pathways across different care settings, and for urgent neighbourhood services where timely communication can prevent escalation.
For patients navigating complex care pathways across multiple neighbourhood providers, AirEmail reduces the risk of emails being missed. This is particularly important for vulnerable patients, who are less likely to chase their care, and therefore more at risk of falling through gaps between services.
"Prioritising clinically important emails amongst the volume is essential. AirEmail has made me a lot safer in terms of missing patient emails. I love the highlighter function – it enables you read emails quickly." - NHS DigiWell Study participant
"Prioritising clinically important emails amongst the volume is essential. AirEmail has made me a lot safer in terms of missing patient emails. I love the highlighter function – it enables you read emails quickly."
- NHS DigiWell Study participant
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A digital health platform that automates care coordination for people living with multiple long term conditions.
Appt’s innovation aligns directly with the goals of Neighbourhood Health and Modern General Practice by championing patient choice, streamlining the end-to-end journey and aligning capacity with need. With Appt, proactive planned care becomes scalable and reliable, ensuring no one is left behind.
Appt’s digital platform acts as a virtual care coordinator, safely matching each patient’s care needs to available appointments and appropriately skilled staff across local practices. People living with multiple conditions often spend hours coordinating their own care, which can lead to confusion, delays and overwhelm. With Appt, patients are able to choose how they prefer to engage, through the NHS app, text message, emails, letters or automated phone calls, ensuring that access is equitable and flexible.
The innovation reduces the time patients, carers and staff spend on care coordination, and increases practice capacity by consolidating multiple health screening appointments into a single, well-planned visit. This reduces the burden on patients to self-manage complex journeys, whilst practice teams are more productive and spend less time identifying who needs care, locating suitable appointments and contacting individuals.
"The implementation has been one of the most successful I’ve experienced in the NHS. Appt has had a hugely positive impact on our programme." - Stephen Lees, Program manager, Lung cancer screening West Yorkshire.
"The implementation has been one of the most successful I’ve experienced in the NHS. Appt has had a hugely positive impact on our programme."
- Stephen Lees, Program manager, Lung cancer screening West Yorkshire.
"Appt's determination to disrupt preventative healthcare and consistently deliver with excellent acknowledgement of feedback is impressive." - Osman Bhatti, Clinical Information Officer, North East London CCG
"Appt's determination to disrupt preventative healthcare and consistently deliver with excellent acknowledgement of feedback is impressive."
- Osman Bhatti, Clinical Information Officer, North East London CCG
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