The HealthTech Research Centre in Accelerated Surgical Care is funded by the Department of Health and Social Care in England to provide:
- Expertise through unrivalled access to world-leading medical diagnostics expertise and extensive clinical networks.
- State-of-the-art facilities by facilitating access to specialist equipment relevant to distinct specialisms, for example, simulation suites.
- Advice on the suitability of new technologies and the evidence required to support their commercial uptake.
- Collaboration by brokering collaborations between industry and clinical practice to test new technologies in community settings.
- Patient and public involvement – public contributors are at the centre of our HRC, helping to steer and govern our work to ensure it is relevant to patients and carers.
- Study delivery – in-house delivery of clinical trials, health economics, health informatics, multidisciplinary pathology capabilities, and generation of high quality evidence.
Useful links
NICE: Evidence standards framework for digital health technologies
A guide to navigating the innovation pathway in England