ABHI Expands Regional Strategy with Nottingham Partnership Announced
ABHI has a series of formal partnerships with different city regions across the UK. These agreements are designed to enable better and faster HealthTech innovation and adoption at local level.
We began this regional strategy five years ago, and the work has proved invaluable in building connections and brokering opportunities for members, whilst enabling us to tap into the wider business, research and academic communities of these hubs. Just last week, we supported a group of SMEs in Manchester with a dedicated session on sustainability in partnership with Health Innovation Manchester.
I am therefore delighted to announce our latest agreement, which has been signed with the University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University.
Nottingham has a compelling offer, with the wider East Midlands accounting for almost 10% of UK HealthTech employment. Home to the aforementioned universities, local centres of excellence include the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre and NIHR Nottingham Clinical Research Facility, the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre and the Medical Technologies Innovation Facility (MTIF). Their close proximity to one another, and links into the local NHS, explain why the region is rapidly establishing itself as a HealthTech hub.
Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam MBE, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Nottingham, said: “We are delighted to have entered this new, exciting partnership with ABHI. This builds on our existing industry partnerships to establish a framework that will enable us to work closely together for the mutual benefit of the Nottinghamshire region, industry and, crucially, patients here, across the UK and the world.”
I look forward to sharing more details with you over the months ahead, as we build out our programme of work in the region.
