Key Features
SBRI Healthcare provides a mechanism to signal the challenges that the NHS and the wider
system face and invites organisations to deploy innovative solutions to deliver improved
outcomes of care.
Programme: SBRI
Award: Share of up to £100,000
Opens: 31st Oct 2023
Closes: 22nd Nov 2023
SBRI Healthcare provides a mechanism to signal the challenges that the NHS and the wider system face and invites organisations to deploy innovative solutions to deliver improved outcomes of care. Our individual competition themes are scoped by working in close collaboration with Academic Health Science Network (AHSNs), frontline NHS and social care staff.
Competition 24: Delivering a Net Zero NHS for a Healthier Future is intended to accelerate the development of greener innovations towards a more sustainable healthcare system. The projects will be expected to demonstrate significant contribution to NHS carbon emission reduction through the proposed solution.
In 2023/24, the SBRI Healthcare Programme seeks to address the challenges of meeting the NHS’s net zero targets while supporting net zero clinical innovation and continuing to improve care for patients. This considers the systemic complexity and the supply chain associated with all innovations proposed as well as the impact that these solutions will have on carbon emissions across the delivery of care.
Innovative solutions and approaches that will significantly support reduction in carbon emissions and have potential for implementation in the NHS are sought across three key focus areas:
1. Clinical community engagement
2. Novel business models to enable circularity in perioperative care and critical care settings
3. Net zero transformation across clinical pathways
Applicants are asked to consider the impact of their innovation on the whole system and to be aware of the competitive environment, even considering working together with other companies and organisations to bring forward solutions that can make a real difference.
Health inequality is a core component of this competition, and equity of access and experience should therefore be a central pillar of any successful innovation.
The SBRI Healthcare funding competition invites outstanding entrepreneurs working across frontline services and the broader system to put forward breakthrough innovations, which address clearly articulated challenges faced by the NHS and/or the social care community. The aim of the open tender is to facilitate the validation and development of such innovations and build on the value proposition required by commissioners and regulators to make purchasing or other recommendations and decisions.
Proposals should concentrate on activities which will significantly contribute to proving the technical feasibility of the proposed innovation. This competition aims to accelerate the development of greener innovations towards a more sustainable healthcare system.
The competition is open to single organisations (contracts are executed with individual legal entities) based in the UK or EU from the private, public, and third sectors, including companies (large corporates and small and medium enterprises), charities, universities and NHS providers, as long as a significant contribution towards the reduction of NHS carbon emissions through the proposed solution is demonstrated.
Organisations based outside the UK or EU with innovations in remit for this call can apply as subcontractors of a lead UK/EU based organisation or via a UK or EU subsidiary. Collaborations are encouraged in the form of subcontracted services as appropriate.
There are a number of technologies / types of solution that are already in development, available, or will not make a significant impact on the challenges addressed in this brief. These are listed below.
Any technologies and solutions that negatively impact staff workloads and do not support the alleviation of workforce pressure or efficiency improvement, or that require high upfront capital investment by clinical services will also be excluded.
● The funding competition will not support innovations and technology tackling reduction in anaesthetic and medical gases.
● Standalone generic introductory e-learning on the topic of environmental sustainability and health.
● Approaches that do not lead to tangible and measurable actions by the clinical professional and or specialty groups.
The contracts awarded will be for a maximum of 12 months and between £50,000 and £100,000 (NET cost, excluding VAT) per project.
Developments will be 100% funded and suppliers for each project will be selected by an open competition process and retain the intellectual property rights (IPR) generated from the project, with certain rights of use retained by the NHS.
For further information on this funding call, please see here
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