NHS Test Beds Wave 2 Competition Now Open
The second wave of the NHS Test Beds programme has been launched.
The Test Beds programme provides funding and support to NHS organisations and industry to test combinations of technology and pathway innovation to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the health service. You can find out more about the seven Test Beds currently involved in the first wave of the programme here.
Innovate UK is to invest up to £4.5 million on behalf of the Office for Life Sciences (OLS), in projects that integrate new product and service innovations. There is also an additional £1.5 million available from NHS England for projects that integrate digital approaches to self-management education and support for people with type 2 diabetes.
The competition is open to digital innovators and NHS organisations who can bid for funding to implement and evaluate innovations until March 2020. Projects must tackle health and care challenges (system or clinical) aligned with national and local priorities.
Each Test Bed must be led by an NHS provider organisation and should be a partnership between NHS organisations and businesses working together to solve a specific and focussed health and care challenge through a combination of digital products and pathway development, which will be evaluated during the programme.
For further details and to register your interest, click here.
