This event led by the NortHFutures Hub aims to foster collaboration in healthcare technologies (health-tech), bringing together research and innovation in people centred approaches to humanising health-tech. During the workshop we want to hear from the audience about what your needs are and where the gaps/barriers are for collaboration so that we can build and develop opportunities for future collaborations in healthcare technologies.  

The workshop will explore ways healthcare, design and tech companies can come together with academia to develop an ecosystem that engages and lead in digital health and health tech initiatives.  The aim going forward is to create an inclusive environment where everyone can come together to collaborate, innovate and share insights and experiences.  

There are a number of unmet health and care needs and inequalities in the region that we need to address.  

“Our region has a strong history and legacy of innovation, transformation and collaboration. Many of our future aims and aspirations will be enabled with digital data and technology, allowing our region not just to do the same things better, but to do better things." — Professor Graham Evans, Executive Chief Digital and Information Officer/SIRO, at NHS NENC ICB.

The NortHFutures consortium has a shared agenda to address unmet health needs, inequalities, and digital exclusion in the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) region where there is proportionately high deprivation, child poverty, mental health challenges and a high percentage of people in the population living with multiple long-term conditions.

Representatives from the region’s universities will present specific engagement opportunities they have in the health-tech sector as part of the NortHFutures Hub.  We will then host an interactive workshop to explore opportunities for collaboration with future funding calls.

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NortHFutures Hub’s mission is to foster collaboration, networking, and entrepreneurial ventures within the Healthcare community across the region.

This fringe event aims to ignite innovation and facilitate pathways to commercial success for healthcare technologies within the North East and Cumbria.

We will discuss the following themes: 

• Promoting Health and Nutrition for Children and Young People; 

• Developing Digital Surgical Pathways; 

• Supporting Mental Health and Wellbeing; 

• Living and Ageing Well with Multiple Long-term Conditions.