Innovations

Research and healthcare generate an enormous amount of plastic waste every year, and most of it ends up in landfills or incinerators. LabCycle’s innovative decontamination solution transforms used plastics into high-quality materials, and we make new products for research and healthcare applications. We help research and healthcare institutions reduce waste, lower costs, and meet sustainability goals, without compromising safety or efficiency.

myHappymind is an innovative, digital mental wellness program delivered in primary schools and nurseries to children, staff and parents. It teaches science-backed strategies to prevent mental health issues and reduce CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) referrals. myHappymind is operating in over 1000 schools across the UK, is available in Welsh and is commissioned by 16 places and growing. myHappymind also has a program for families to enable parents to support their children from home. This is currently commissioned by the NHS for children on the waitlist for specialist services so that they have some support while they wait.

MyRenalCare empowers individuals with Chronic Kidney Disease to self-manage their condition from home with remote support from Renal Specialists. This significantly increases capacity, allowing for more patients to be cared for at lower cost.

Nettle is a non-invasive medical grade wearable device that transforms menstrual pain and mood symptom management through advanced neuromodulation technology. Using transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), Nettle targets key brain regions involved in pain perception and emotional regulation, providing a safe and effective alternative to medication. Clinically validated and CE-marked as a Class IIa medical device, Nettle has been shown to deliver significant pain relief and mood improvement, with ongoing trials in endometriosis and PMDD. Designed for at-home use, this rechargeable, app-controlled device offers a simple, user-friendly solution for menstrual health.

The NHS faces significant challenges in adopting and scaling AI solutions due to fragmented deployment, regulatory hurdles, and a lack of standardised evaluation and monitoring. Newton’s Tree provides a comprehensive AI deployment platform that enables NHS Trusts to seamlessly integrate multiple AI solutions into their clinical workflows, ensuring regulatory compliance and continuous performance monitoring. By reducing barriers to adoption and making AI more accessible, we help the NHS harness the full potential of AI technologies to improve patient care and operational efficiency.

Pathpoint eDerma is a cloud-based teledermatology system that streamlines both acute ward referrals and GP 2ww (2 week-wait) cancer pathways. The platform supports the entire patient pathway from initial referral in primary and secondary care to management and discharge.

The PinPoint Test is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven, affordable blood test for cancer, designed to optimise NHS urgent cancer referral pathways. It has the potential to transform the patient experience, reduce systemic overloading and allow clinicians to focus their time on the patients that need them most.

The NHS spends more treating cardiovascular, renal and metabolic diseases than any other illness – £7.4 billion pay for CVD alone and yet are up to 80% preventable. PocDoc has developed innovative smartphone-based technology that enables clinical-grade screening at home, at work or in the community for cardio, metabolic and renal diseases. PocDoc’s flagship product, the ‘Healthy Heart Check delivers the equivalent of an NHS Health Check in 10 minutes, as opposed to 2 (or more) appointments in primary care. Patients can be connected in real-time to digital treatment pathways, results are shared back into the record and into the NHS app. The ‘Healthy Heart Check’ delivers a full cholesterol profile, BMI score, calculates heart age, and provides a ten-year risk assessment for heart attacks or strokes – all in under 10 minutes

PreActiv optimises patients before surgery using technology to create individualised and adaptive prehabilitation programmes tailored to surgery date. Combining HIIT-style exercise with multimodal support like nutrition and smoking cessation, programmes adapt to patient progress for maximum effectiveness. By reducing complications and hospital stays, PreActiv offers a scalable, cost-effective solution aligned with NHS perioperative care goals.

Procomp has adapted its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based planning tools and services – originally developed for the logistics sector – to bring transformational change to domiciliary care (services put in place to support an individual in their own home). It’s AI-based tools manage extreme complexity, enabling key decision makers to make informed decisions for systemic changes, and providers to increase capacity and stability.

Prostate Intelligence™ (Pi™) is an AI and machine learning based software system designed to help radiologists detect and report prostate cancer on MR scans (MRI). They aim to support the NHS to deliver the prostate cancer pathway faster and accurately, ensuring cancers are not missed on MRI.

Psyomics Platform is a digital mental health tool that sits at the front door of adult secondary care community mental health services, supporting the intake, triage and assessment processes.