NIHR HealthTech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care

Supporting Your Future: up to £10M in Investment Funding Awaits
2024-10-01 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | Hill Dickinson, 11 Wellington Place, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 4AP, United Kingdom
Co-hosted by Hill Dickinson LLP and Medilink, this event is a fantastic opportunity for your company – alongside a select group of other medtech companies – to pitch to some of the region’s most prolific high-growth equity investors. You’ll have the chance to present your company’s latest developments, with time afterward for investors to ask questions and explore the potential for investment.
With investment opportunities ranging from £500K to £10M, this event offers a significant chance to secure the funding your company needs to grow and develop.
After the formal presentations we’ll move into a relaxed networking session with drinks, where you can connect with other companies in the sector.
To secure your position, you’ll be asked to complete an application that includes a minimum turnover / ARR requirement. While there’s no attendance fee for the event, we do ask each participant to make a donation to our chosen charity, The Rob Burrow Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Appeal. The suggested donation amount is £99.
We hope you can join us for what promises to be an engaging and rewarding event.
To register your interest for this event, please follow the link below.

Innovation Champion Network: Refresh
2024-10-09 09:30 - 13:00 | Microsoft Teams
Medipex and Health Innovation Yorkshire and Humber are excited to announce that our joint Innovation Champion Network (ICN) is coming back! Aimed at all staff working in the NHS across the Yorkshire and Humber region, free events and resources will help discover why and how to innovate to deliver patient benefits.
Our offering under the ICN is a combination of online workshops and resources (FutureNHS space) to help NHS staff to take the first step into innovation activities and to network with other like-minded individuals from other organisations to help each other solve problems. Practical advice will be given as well as signposting to relevant sources of support for those that have an idea that they want to progress.

This is exclusively for NHS staff across Yorkshire and Humber.

Research Governance for PIs and Delivery Teams
2024-10-11 08:00 - 17:00 | Microsoft Teams
In addition to carrying out the protocol-driven activities of the research studies in which they participate, Principal Investigators and their delivery teams must ensure that the studies are managed as required and that all the governance requirements are fulfilled. The course has been designed to give an overview of the governance and management requirements throughout the life cycle of a research study within the NHS/HSC across all the four nations in the UK.
During this interactive study day, we’ll go through different aspects of study set-up including research funding, regulatory approvals, logistics, safety reporting and local study management. It will also talk about roles and responsibilities of Principal Investigators and study delivery teams in different phases of study management.
Who should attend?
This course has been focused on the role of Principal Investigators and study delivery teams within the NHS/HSC organisations in managing a research project.

Collaborating with ‘the public’ and experts-by-experience
2024-10-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Zoom
Dr Sarah McLusky (Sarah McLusky Research-adjacent consultancy, training and facilitation), will deliver a session on collaborating with the end users of research. This session is open to all staff and students and will be of interest to anyone embarking on translational research and those already working in the translational research space.

Session details:
Could your research benefit ordinary people? Could it make their lives healthier, safer, or more enjoyable? If so, then talking to them early and often will make your research better, more fundable and ultimately more impactful. This workshop will explore some of the principles and practicalities of building research partnerships with potential end users and experts-by-experience. The session will cover the following areas:

Different models of collaboration
Finding and engaging the right people
Creating safe spaces and navigating power dynamics
Compensating people for their time

Webinar: An introduction to the NIHR Pre-Application Support Fund
2024-10-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Microsoft Teams
The Pre-Application Support Fund provides extra support to those who need it to enhance their chances of making a successful application to an NIHR career development scheme in the future. In particular, the scheme aims to make a positive impact on groups and professions identified as underrepresented within NIHR
This one hour webinar will give an overview of the Pre-Application Support Fund and share insights that can help you develop a competitive application.

Getting the most out of IRAS
2024-10-28 13:00 - 17:00 | Microsoft Teams
Being able to provide a full, complete and accurate IRAS submission should help to make your approval process run much more smoothly, but many people struggle with some aspects of IRAS. This half day course is designed to supplement the existing IRAS and HRA guidance by working through the standard and combined review IRAS systems as well as the amendments section in a live environment.
During this course, we will concentrate on those questions and functions that many applicants struggle with, such as:

How to complete the project filter?
What is the most effective way to navigate the system?
How do I transfer the project to other collaborators?

The course will give you the opportunity to ask questions about both the system and the submission process and understand the best way to ensure your application fully reflects the detail of your research.
Who should attend?
Anyone who has to create and submit an IRAS application and those who support applicants. The course is relevant to NHS, academic and industry researchers.
